Villa angela

Villa Ángela is a city located in the southwest of the province of Chaco (Argentina). It is the head of the Mayor Luis Jorge Fontana department.

Its main economic activity is agriculture.

History

In 1906, two Swiss men, Carlos Grüneisen and Julio Ulises Martín (1862-1934), acquired a huge ranch in the interior of the province of Chaco, where several towns would later be formed: Villa Ángela, Enrique Urién and Pueblo Díaz.

In 1908, due to a drought, a group of employees moved their ranch from the company's first location in Enrique Urién to the west, about 25 km. Without knowing it, the new geography where they settled would make up the first population center of Villa Ángela, the neighborhood currently called Pueblo Viejo.

In 1910, Martín and Grüneisen founded the La Suiza ranch, a few kilometers from where their laborers had settled two years before. It is very probable that the company decided to build the farmhouse where it is currently located (on the outskirts of Villa Ángela) in anticipation of the imminent arrival of the railway in the coming years. And that this itself has motivated the company to subdivide and sell lots for housing in the vicinity of where the Santa Fe Provincial Railroad station would finally be built. Thus, between 1910 and 1917 the second urban nucleus was populated, in the sector of the city that today is called Centro, from the train station to the north of the city.

The name of Villa Ángela is in homage to Ángela Joostens, the wife of Julio Ulises Martín. And it appears on the scene since 1914, the year in which the railway station was baptized with that name and the subdivision plans were sent to the government of the territory. According to the historian Guido Miranda, in 1914 Julio Martín sent the plans to Governor Gancedo, where he alludes to the future name of Villa Ángela.

On August 8, 1917, the decree creating Elementary School No. 11 was signed. In 1921 Elementary School No. 82 was created, which came to alleviate the need for the old settlement or Pueblo Viejo.

In 1923 the first Municipal Commission was organized. The following year settlers from different origins settled in the area surrounding the town (Colonia J. J. Paso), who began to cultivate corn, sunflower and cotton. Members of the Bulgarian and Hungarian communities stood out in particular. The latter celebrated in 2012 the 80th anniversary of their arrival in the region.

Since 1950, important carnivals have been held in Villa Ángela. This popular festival runs from mid-January to the beginning of March, and has five adult troupes (Ara Sunu, Bahía, Hawaiianas, La Nueva and Samberos de Itá Berá) and four children's troupes (Hawaianitos, Ara Sunito, Bahianitos and Samberitos of Itá Berá).

Methods of communication

Manufacture of brittle extract 'La Chaqueña' S. A., in Villa Angela

The main communication route is National Route 95, which connects it to the southwest with Coronel Du Graty and the province of Santa Fe, and to the north with San Bernardo and the province of Formosa. Other routes that cross it are the provincial route 13 that joins it to the northwest with General Pinedo, and to the east with Enrique Urién and National Route 11; Provincial Route 8, which connects it to the northwest with National Route 89; Provincial routes 12 and 12 bis, which link it to the northwest with Mesón de Fierro and Charata; Provincial Route 16 that connects it to the west with Hermoso Campo; and the provincial routes 18 and 18 bis, which to the south reach the province of Santa Fe.

Route 13 to 2014 is undergoing paving work between Villa Ángela and General Pinedo.

The closest airport is Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña. The tracks of the General Belgrano Railroad are inactive. National Civil Aviation Administration (Argentina)

It has an aerodrome used by the Aero Club Villa Ángela whose origins date back to 1929, when a DH aircraft flew over the local skies for the first time Cirrus Moth 80 HP biplane from World War I, flown by aviator Pablo Molina. Its aeronautical code in acronyms is VAN and it depends on the Northeast Regional of ANAC. The orientation of its runway is 13/31 marked out and it is enabled for H24 flights. Its star event is the Villa Ángela Vuela Aerodeportivos Festivals, in which national acrobatic pilots dazzle the inhabitants of the region every 2 years. Socially, its greatest contribution has been its pilots and aircraft transporting settlers flooded by floods.^{[citation required]}

Climate

Its climate is subtropical, dry in winter and very rainy tropical in summer. The climate of Villa Ángela is of the humid subtropical type with dry winter (warm summer) Cwa according to the Köppen climate classification.^{[citation required]}

• Absolute maximum: 45.8 °C
• Absolute minimum: –5,5 °C
• Annual rainfall: 1100 mm

Average climate parameters of Villa Ángela (1941–1950)
Month	Ene.	Feb.	Mar.	Open up.	May.	Jun.	Jul.	Ago.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
Temp. max. abs. (°C)	43.8	44.4	42.3	36.9	34.1	33.4	33.4	40.9	42.6	44.4	44.1	44.2	44.4
Average temperature (°C)	36.3	35.1	31.5	28.3	24.3	21.6	21.4	25.7	28.1	30.6	32.7	35.6	29.3
Average temperature (°C)	27.2	26.4	23.3	20.2	17.4	14.5	13.6	16.6	19.2	22.0	24.3	26.9	21.0
Temp. medium (°C)	19.9	19.8	17.6	14.7	11.6	9.1	7.7	9.2	12.4	14.3	16.5	18.5	14.3
Temp. min. abs. (°C)	8.8	9.0	7.0	2.6	-1.6	-4.0	-5.6	-4.1	-0.3	1.1	8.4	8.9	-5.6
Total precipitation (mm)	116	143	126	99	44	33	32	15	48	73	98	75	902
Source: Global Bioclimatic Classification System

Sports

Villa Ángela has several sports institutions, the Alvear and Progresista clubs standing out in basketball. The Club Unión Progresista is the only team from Chaco that participated in the National Basketball League of Argentina.

In 2014 these two institutions came together for various reasons to form "La Villa Basket" that participates in the National Promotion Tournament (Second Division).

Population

It has 41,403 inhabitants (Indec, 2010), which represents an increase of 8.9% compared to the 38,020 inhabitants (Indec, 2001) of the previous census. Villa Ángela is the fourth city in the province in number of settlers, behind Resistencia, Roque Sáenz Peña Presidency and Barranqueras, while it constitutes the third most populous agglomeration in the province of Chaco, behind Gran Resistencia and Roque Sáenz Peña Presidency. In the municipality the total amounted to 43,511 inhabitants (Indec, 2001).

Graphic of demographic evolution of Villa Angela between 1991 and 2010

Source of National Censuses of INDEC

Pueblo Clodomiro Díaz is located within the municipal commons; There is also the Aboriginal Colony El Pastoril, of the Mocoví ethnic group.

Featured Characters

• Luis Landriscina, a humorist who lived his childhood in this town.
• Juan Carlos Albertí, mayor of La Plata between 1983 and 1987.
• Matías Muñoz Marchesi, Pilot of National Tourism C3

Parishes of the Catholic Church in Villa Ángela