Choele Choel

Choele Choel is the capital of the department of Avellaneda in the province of Río Negro in southern Argentina. It lies on the left bank of the Rio Negro towards the Isla Grande de Choele Choel. The Río Negro is in this zone the fertile Valle Medio.

Climate

The climate in January is sunny and dry with temperatures up to 28 ° C. In July the temperature reaches 10 ° C in rainy and windy climate.

History

Choele Choel was founded on July 9, 1879 by Colonel Conrado Villegas on behalf of the then Minister of War Julio Argentino Roca. Roca strengthened in his desert campaign in this way, the boundary between the white and indigenous Argentina, he vorschob to the Rio Negro. The founding name of the place was Nicolás Avellaneda. After a flood, the inhabitants moved to a place called the Pampa de los Molinos. On March 18, 1882 The relocation to the present site was.

1883 a post office was opened; 1890 came Salesians of Don Bosco. The province school No. 10 was opened in 1904 and the Public Library, 1917. Besides the known migratory flows that reached Argentina, settled in the 1970s, refugees from Laos and Russian Orthodox Christians in Choele Choel. Choele Choel is now the most populous city of the zone.

The Irish -born, Argentinean writer Rodolfo Walsh was born in 1927 in Lamarque on the Isla Grande de Choele Choel.

Transport links

Choele Choel is an important transportation hub at the intersection of Ruta Nacional 22 and Ruta Nacional 250, located about 1000 kilometers from Buenos Aires. Distances to General Roca are 180 kilometers to Las Grutas 193 km and 460 km to Puerto Madryn. On the local bus station while buses to towns on the Patagonian Atlantic ( Puerto Madryn, Province of Rio Gallegos and Ushuaia ) and the Andean towns in Northern Patagonia (San Carlos de Bariloche and El Bolson ). The airport currently serves only irregular charter flights.

Festivals

• Fiesta del Provinical Ternero (May) - Country Festival with Rodeo and Folkoreveranstaltungen
• Sagrado Corazón de Jesús " (October 21 ) - Patron Saint
• Provincial Festival del Folklore (December)