Bovril is a village and municipality in La Paz Department in the north-west of

Entre Ríos Province Entre Ríos (, "Between Rivers") is a central province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires (south), Corrientes (north) and Santa Fe (west), and Uruguay in the east. Its capital is Paraná ( ...

in north-eastern

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. The locality is connected by 6 km of paved road with National Route 127. It was formerly served by a railway station, :es:Estación Bovril, on the

General Urquiza Railway The General Urquiza Railway (FCGU) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril General Urquiza), named after the Argentine general and politician Justo José de Urquiza, is a standard gauge railway of Argentina which runs approximately northwards from Buenos Aire ...

network.

History

The planned village, "Colonia y Pueblo Bovril", was founded in 1913 by the Bovril Company, British makers of the beef extract

Bovril Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick and salty meat extract paste similar to a yeast extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston. It is sold in a distinctive bulbous jar, and as cubes and granules. Bovril is owned and distribut ...

, to accommodate workers at the meat processing plant at Santa Elena and on the railway. The company owned large tracts of cattle-rearing land in the area until 1973. Substantial numbers of

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settled in the area. The municipality of Bovril was constituted in 1951.

Festivals

The annual ''Fiesta Nacional del Gurí Entrerriano'' is attended by boys from all over Entre Ríos province, who take part in artistic activities, folk dance and sporting contests. The ''Festival Montielero'', founded in 2004, features

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culture.

Notable people from Bovril

* Gabriel Graciani, footballer *

Augusto Vandor Augusto Timoteo Vandor (1923–1969) was an Argentine trade unionist leader, naval non-commissioned officer and politician. Career Vandor was born in Bovril, Entre Ríos Province, to a Dutch father and a French mother, in 1923. He enlisted in ...

, trade union leader

References

Jewish Argentine settlements Populated places in Entre Ríos Province Populated places established in 1913 1913 establishments in Argentina {{EntreRíosAR-geo-stub Volga German diaspora