Villa El Chocón

Villa El Chocón
Municipality and village
Country  Argentina
Province Neuquén Province
Villa El Chocón
Sign at the entrance of Villa el Chocón

Villa El Chocón is a village and municipality in Neuquén Province in southwestern Argentina.[1]

The village was initially created to house the workmen building the Ezequiel Ramos Mexía dam (colloquially known as El Chocón Dam) on the Limay River. The dam is now completed and is the site of one of the main hydroelectric power plants in Argentina.[2]

Located in Villa El Chocón is the Ernesto Bachmann Paleonthological Museum,[3] which exhibits several fossil remains found nearby, notably the remains of Giganotosaurus Carolinii. Also, close to Villa El Chocón, there were found several groups of fossil dinosaur footprints.[4]

Giganotosaurus Carolinii at the Ernesto Bachmann Paleonthological Museum
Fossil footprints near Villa El Chocón

References

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  1. ↑ Ministerio del Interior (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Villa El Chocón (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Ernesto Bachmann Paleonthological Museum (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Ernesto Bachmann Paleonthological Museum (Spanish)

Coordinates: 39°14′S 68°45′W / 39.233°S 68.750°W / -39.233; -68.750


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