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Variadero was initially called "Estrada" after the first settler, Jose
Laureano Estrada, who made a permanent home along the Conchas Arroyo around the time of the Civil War. Jose Laureano is buried at the Catholic Cemetery across highway 104 from the Catholic Church in Variadero. His wife Filomena
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Variadero along highway 104 which reminded early settlers of a
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January 19, 1907; the post office used the name Variadero intermittently until the 1920s. The community's two names both come from Spanish terms; Variadero derives from
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Estrada de Madrid is buried at his side. The gravemarker is still visible for both of them and his reads "Jose
Laureano Estrada, 1835 - 1898, The first settler of Variadero."
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