Place:Río Negro, Argentina

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NameRío Negro
Alt namesRío Negrosource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Río Negrosource: Wikipedia
TypeProvince
Coordinates40°S 67°W
Located inArgentina
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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

Its capital is Viedma, and its largest city is Bariloche. Other important cities include General Roca and Cipolletti.

History

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Ferdinand Magellan was the first European explorer to visit the coasts of the provinces in 1520. Italian priest Nicolás Mascardi founded the Jesuit mission Nuestra Señora de Nahuel Huapi in 1670 at the shore of the Nahuel Huapi Lake, at the feet of the Andes range.


Originally part of the Argentine territory called Patagonia (in 1878 the Gobernación de la Patagonia), in 1884 it was organised into the Territorio Nacional del Río Negro and General Lorenzo Vintter was appointed as the territory's first governor. It was only in 1957, that Río Negro acquired status of a province; its first provincial governor was Edgardo Castello of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).

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