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Centenario, Departamento Paraná, Entre Ríos Province

Includes the following communities
Apeadero Colonia Centenario
Centenario
Colonia Centenario
History

Colonia Centenario was founded about 1911 near Viale. The first major Volga German construction in this colony was a church for the Congregation of the Rio de la Plata. Most of the inhabitants of Centenario were Italian immigrants.

Volga German Congregations

There is a church in Colonia Centenario that is affiliated with the Iglesia Evangélica del Río de la Plata (IERP). There is also a Seventh Day Adventist congregation outside of town.

Volga German Families

The following Volga German families are known to have settled in Colonia Centenario:

Buxmann
Heinze
Hock
Hoffmann
Popp
Strauss

Sources

Elena Vega Stehle

-31.85, -59.983333

Volga Colonies

Migrated From

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