Laguna del Desierto incident Laguna del Desierto incident The Laguna del Desierto incident, in Argentina called also Battle of Laguna del Desierto, occurred between four Chilean Carabineros and between 40 and 90 members of the Argentine Gendarmerie and took place in zone south of O'Higgins/San Martín Lake on 6 November 1965, resulting in one lieutenant killed and a sergeant injured, both members of Carabineros, creating a tense atmosphere between Chile and Argentina. The British award of 1903 considered the demands of Chile and Argentina as irreconcilable and previous authorization of both governments draw a boundary between the extreme pretensions of the litigants. In the
Marano Lagoon considered a single huge lagoon called in Italian "Grado-Marano Laguna" (or even only "Laguna di Grado"), stretching from Grado to Lignano Sabbiadoro and called "the twin sister of the Laguna di Venezia". However the Marano Lagoon is under the administration of the "Comune di Marano Lagunare" (while the eastern section is administered mainly by the "Comune di Grado"). The Marano section of the lagoon is crossed longitudinally by the "Venetian coast waterway", a waterway that connects Venice with the mouth of the Isonzo river. This section starts on the southern side with Lignano Sabbiadoro, a resort city developed mainly after