Choele Choel is the capital of the department of Avellaneda in the Argentine province of Río Negro, and the most important settlement within the Valle Medio ("Middle Valley") agricultural area of the Río Negro River in Patagonia Departments (Spanish: departamentos) form the second level of administrative division in the provinces of Argentina. ... Argentina consists of 23 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia), and 1 federal district (Capital Federal *). Capital Federal * Buenos Aires Catamarca Chaco Chubut Córdoba Corrientes Entre Ríos Formosa Jujuy La Pampa La Rioja Mendoza Misiones Neuquén Río Negro Salta San Juan San Luis Santa Cruz Santa Fe Santiago... Río Negro is a province of Argentina, located at the northern edge of Patagonia. ... // Negro River (Spanish: Río Negro) is the most important river of the Argentine province of Río Negro. ... Patagonia is that portion of South America which, to the east of the Andes, lies south of the Neuquén and Río Colorado rivers, and, to the west of the Andes, south of (42°S). ...

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Choele Choel, with a population of 9.791 (2001 census [INDEC]), is located at the intersection of the National Routes #22 and #250, around 1000 kilometres from Buenos Aires, 180 from General Roca, 193 from the Las Grutas beach resort, and 460 from Puerto Madryn. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ... National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Spanish Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, INDEC) is the Argentine state institution responsible for the collection and processing of census and statistical data, created in 1968. ... Buenos Aires (Good Airs in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in Latin America. ... Puerto Madryn (in Welsh, Porth Madryn) is a city in the province of Chubut in the Argentine Patagonia. ...

Its long distance bus terminal is a common stop for buses going to both sea-side Patagonia (Puerto Madryn, Río Gallegos, Ushuaia) and North-Andean Patagonia (Bariloche, El Bolsón). Río Gallegos is a city in Argentina and is the capital of the Santa Cruz Province. ... The city of Ushuaia in early spring. ... The Andes between Chile and Argentina Computer generated image of the Andes, made from a digital elevation model with a resolution of 30 arcseconds The Andes is a vast mountain system forming a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. ... View of the Nahuel Huapi Lake, Bariloche San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina is situated on the foothills of the Andes, surrounded by lakes (Nahuel Huapi, Gutiérrez, Moreno and Mascardi) and mountains (Tronador, Catedral, López). ... El Bolsón is situated in the far southwest of Rio Negro Province in Argentina, at the foot of the Piltriquitron Mountain. ...

During the 1990s, the airport used to serve regular flights to Buenos Aires, but currently serves only infrequent private charters. Buenos Aires (Good Airs in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in Latin America. ...

History

Under the name Nicolás Avellaneda, it was founded on July 9, 1879 by General Conrado Villegas. After a flooding, the inhabitants moved to a place known as Pampa de los Molinos. They would stay there until Match 18, 1882, when the settlement was moved to its current location. Nicolás Remigio Aurelio Avellaneda Silva (1837-1885) was President of Argentina from 1874 to 1880. ...

The town acquired special importance during the Conquest of the Desert, when the border between the white man and the Native Americans was pushed south the the shore of the Río Negro River. The Conquest of the Desert (Spanish: Conquista del desierto) was a controversial campaign by the Argentine government, executed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca, to wrest Patagonia from the control of the regions aboriginal tribes at the end of the 19th century. ... // Negro River (Spanish: Río Negro) is the most important river of the Argentine province of Río Negro. ...

In 1883, a post office was installed in the town. Salesians arrived in 1890. The Provincial School #10 was created in 1904, and in 1917 the Library. Besides the immigration flows common to most Argentina, to Choele Choel arrived refugees from Laos in the 1970s, as well as Russian Orthodox. Irish descendant writer Rodolfo Walsh was born in the town in 1927. The Salesians of Don Bosco (or the Salesian Society, originally known as the Society of St. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ...

The Name

There are several version regarding the meaning of Choele Choel. It might be from the Araucan language, translated as "Yellow flower race", or the Tehuelche "Small river rolling-stones". Another version translate it as "Bark scarecrows". Mapudungun is an Araucanian language spoken in Chile and Argentina by the Mapuche people. ... Patagonian camp, 1838 Tehuelches is the collective name of the native tribes of Patagonia. ...