Basavilbaso is a town in the center region of the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

of Entre Ríos,

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, about from

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. It has about 9,700 inhabitants as per the . Locals often shorten the name to Basso. The town developed around the Gobernador Basavilbaso Station of the Ferrocarril Central Entrerriano railway company, which became part of

Entre Ríos Railway The Entre Ríos Railway (ERR) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Entre Ríos) was a British-owned railway company that built and operated a railway network in Entre Ríos Province, between the rivers Uruguay and Paraná, in Argentina. History The compa ...

in 1892. The first train arrived on 30 June 1887, and this is now regarded as the foundation date of Basavilbaso. The town was first settled by

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immigrants basically from

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(

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) and

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. Basavilbaso was one of the first Jewish colonies in Argentina. These settlers formed the first agricultural cooperative in South America. As "

Jewish gauchos Jewish gauchos ( es, gauchos judíos, lad, gauchos djudíos) were Jewish immigration, immigrants who settled in fertile regions of Argentina in agricultural colonies established by the Jewish Colonization Association. The association was establishe ...

", they were recognized as the first to farm in an area where farming was non-existent. Other groups began to settle in the town:

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, and

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References

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TurismoEntreRios.com
- Touristic portal.
BassoEnLaRed.com.ar
Portal of the town.
Rielfm.com.ar
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