Juan José Castelli, Chaco
| Juan José Castelli | |
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 Juan José Castelli
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| Coordinates: 25°57′S 60°37′W / 25.950°S 60.617°WCoordinates: 25°57′S 60°37′W / 25.950°S 60.617°W | |
| Country |
 Argentina
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| Province | Chaco |
| Department | General Güemes |
| Population | |
| • Total | 36,588 |
| Time zone | ART (UTC-3) |
| CPA base | H3705 |
| Dialing code | +54 3732 |
Juan José Castelli (usually abbreviated to Castelli) is a town in the province of Chaco, Argentina. It is located 274 km from the provincial capital Resistencia and has about 37,000 inhabitants as per the 2001 census [INDEC]. It is the head town of the General Güemes Department. Its population is mainly of Volga German descent.
The area was originally populated by aboriginals of the Toba and Wichí tribes. Around 1910 a group of colonists from Salta, who had followed the course of the Bermejo River, established there. After the end of World War I, and especially due to the 1923 campaign encouraging the development of cotton crops in Chaco, European immigrants started to come. In 1928 Castelli was founded as an agricultural colony, 100 km north of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña.
In June 1931, 320 Volga German families arrived, even carrying furniture, tools and livestock. They were around 2,300 who had been settled in La Pampa and the west of Buenos Aires, but were forced to move by bad harvests and economic problems. Cotton cultivation was at the time promoted as a source of wealth. Besides the Volga German majority, immigrants from Poland, Romania, Spain, Paraguay, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Yugoslavia and Ukraine also came.
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