Lamarque is a city in the Avellaneda Department of

Río Negro Province Río Negro (, ''Black River'') is a province of Argentina, located in northern Patagonia. Neighboring provinces are from the south clockwise Chubut, Neuquén, Mendoza, La Pampa and Buenos Aires. To the east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Its cap ...

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. It is located within the Río Negro (Black River) valley, about from the city of Choele Choel in the southeast of Isla Grande de Choele Choel. According to the 2010 census by

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, the urban area had a population of 7,686. Lamarque is the birthplace of writer Rodolfo Walsh.

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Populated places in Río Negro Province Populated places established in 1900 {{RíoNegroAR-geo-stub