They found a young tourist who had disappeared in the Manso River dead.

The 23-year-old young man who had been intensively searched since this Tuesday when he entered the Manso Riverin the Nahuel Huapi National Park of Río Negro, was found dead by rescuers about 800 meters from the place where he was last seen.

According to what they were able to reconstruct from the complaint of the victim’s father, the tourist “jumped off a rock into the river yesterday and missing“and his dad” ran a few meters to look for him along the coast but I lost sight of it“the sources expressed.

“Unfortunately the victim was found in the Manso River about 800 meters from the place where he entered,” they detailed from the Nahuel Huapi National Park.

“The male person, 23 years old, originally from Buenos Aires, was vacationing with his family in the area. near the border with Chile“Detailed the same source.

In dialogue with the Télam news agency, Horacio Paradela, mayor of the Nahuel Huapi National Park, maintained that the young man “He would have been carried away by the current.“and in this sense he added that “the Manso River presents dangerous conditions and it’s very cold, even in summer.”

At the same time, the Río Negro-El Bolsón Provincial Prosecutor’s Office intervened in the incident through prosecutor Francisco Arrien, who is already investigating the case.

Meanwhile, park rangers, brigade members and risk management personnel from the Nahuel Huapi National Park, the Bariloche Andean Club Assistance Commission, kayakers from the area, the Río Negro Police, the National Gendarmerie and the Argentine Naval Prefecture participated in the operation.

During the afternoon hours of this Wednesday, the operation to transfer the body of the deceased young man is carried out while the family is being contained and accompanied by National Parks personnel.

In recent days, in addition to the start of the holidays, another factor prompted Patagonians to approach the water bodies. The region is going through days of high temperatures, which reached 38 degrees.

But the heat sometimes makes us forget the risks and that is why in recent days other similar cases have been repeated in Patagonia.

Javier Francisco Mora (52 years old) It was cooling off on Saturday on Jordan Island, on the banks of the Negro River, in Neuquén. As happened with Alejandra, her son jumped into the water to look for a ball, but began to drown. Then, the man jumped in to save the boy. He made it, but he could no longer get out of the river. He was missing for five days until local authorities finally found his body.

It all started on Saturday, December 23 at 5 p.m., when Mora shared a day out with her children on Jordan Island, south of Cipolletti (the city where she lived) and right on the border with the province of Río Negro.

Minutes after starting the walk, one of the young people jumped into the river to recover the soccer ball, which had fallen into the water. The current began to drag him. Then it was his father who jumped into the riverbed to save him. The boy was unharmed, but the man was carried away by the force of the river.

From there a search began that concluded five days later in the same area where she was last seen.

Mora’s death occurred hours before the death of police officer Judith Yamile Aillapan, who on Monday, December 25, in the middle of the Christmas celebration, jumped into the Azul River north of Lago Puelo to rescue her children. She managed to save them, but she was pulled out of the water with serious symptoms of asphyxiation and was admitted to the hospital dead.

According to witness accounts, despite managing to get his children to safety, the non-commissioned officer had become trapped in the turbulent waters, which triggered an intense rescue operation.

Julián Cayún, director of Civil Defense of Lago Puelo, explained that the incident took place about 200 meters from the confluence of the Blanco and Azul rivers, where turbulence and significant flow complicate rescue situations.

Added to these cases, also at the end of the year, were two people who drowned in Mina Clavero less than 48 hours apart.