Eleven thousand hectares of former mountain tax land and woods at the foot of the Andes, which overlook and enclose a gigantic mirror of turquoise water in Argentine Patagonia: Lake Escondido – whose name means “hidden”. These lands constitute the splendid property that Joe Lewis, billionaire British businessman and owner of the Tottenham Hotspur football club, bought in 1996 and on which he built a gigantic 3,200 m residence.2 as well as a helipad, tennis and soccer courts, a go-kart track, a zoo and an amphitheater, among other eccentricities.
The domain thus effectively blocks the path that allowed public access to the lake, in defiance of the Argentine Civil Code and the Constitution of the province of Río Negro, which both guarantee that the rivers and lakes belong to the do