Villa Ángela is a city in the

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

of Chaco, Argentina, 186 km west of the provincial capital Resistencia. It is on the

Gran Chaco The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato ...

, a lowland region of the

Río de la Plata The Río de la Plata (, "river of silver"), also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean and fo ...

basin. It has 43,511 inhabitants as per the , making it the third largest in the province.

History

In 1908, Carlos Gruneisen y Julio Ulises Martin (Swiss, born 31 July 1862, creator of the ''Yerbatera Martin'', in Rosario), acquired the land that would become the jurisdiction of Villa Angela. He had the

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factory, ''La Chaqueña S.A.'', built and the adjacent areas immediately began to be settled. ''Punta de rieles'' and ''km 95'' were the names it first received when it was no more than a

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. In 1910, as a tribute to the centennial of the

May Revolution The May Revolution ( es, Revolución de Mayo) was a week-long series of events that took place from May 18 to 25, 1810, in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. This Spanish colony included roughly the terri ...

and 24 May, they decided to found a village and give it the name Villa Ángela. It was named after ''Ángela Joostens'', the wife of Julio Ulises Martin, one of its two founders. The city boasts one of the major Carnavals of the country. This popular festival extends from mid-January to mid-February since 1950.

Weather

The city's weather is subtropical, dry in winter and very wet and hot in the summer. *Record high: 46 °C *Record low: -6 °C *Average annual precipitation: 1,100 mm

External links

Official city website in SpanishLocal development office website in Spanish

References

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Villa Ángela en la Red
— Portal of the city. {{DEFAULTSORT:Villa Angela Populated places in Chaco Province 1910 establishments in Argentina