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Centenário, Departamento Paraná, Entre Ríos Province

Includes the following communities
Apeadero Colonia Centenário
Centenário
Colonia Centenário
History

Colonia Centenário 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 Centenário 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.

Sources

Elena Vega Stehle

The following Volga German families settled in Colonia Centenario:
Buxmann
Heinze
Hock
Hoffmann
Popp
Strauss

Colonies

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Migrated From