Lago Epecuen is like most other mountain lakes, except for one important difference.
It has salt levels second only to the Dead Sea, and ten times higher than any ocean.
Lago Epecuens therapeutic powers have been famous for centuries.
Villa Epecuen transformed from a sleepy mountain village to a bustling tourist resort.
The village soon had a railway line linking it to Buenos Aires.
The towns population peaked in the 1970s with more than 5,000.
Nearly 300 businesses thrived, including hotels, hostels, spas, shops, and museums.
By 1993, the slow-growing flood consumed the town until it was covered in 10 meters of water.
Nearly 25 years later, in 2009, the wet weather reversed and the waters began to recede.
Villa Epecuen started coming back to the surface.
No one returned back to the town, except 81-year-old Pablo Novak who is now Villa Epecuens sole resident.
I am OK here.
I am just alone.
I read the newspaper.
And I always think of the towns golden days back in the 1960s and 70s, Novak says.
Sources:The Atlantic,Wikipedia,Lostresorts
