During the s, the airport used to serve regular flights to Buenos Aires , but currently serves only infrequent private charters. After a flood, the inhabitants moved to a place known as Pampa de los Molinos. They would stay there until Match 18, , when the settlement was moved to its current location. In , a post office was installed in the town. Salesians arrived in The Provincial School 10 was created in , and in the Library.
Irish Argentine writer Rodolfo Walsh was born in the town in Choele Choel is home to a sizable Russian community; besides the European immigrant communities common to most of Argentina, the town received refugees from Laos in the s. There are several versions regarding the meaning of Choele Choel : it might be from the Araucan language , translated as "Yellow flower race," or from the Tehuelche language "Small river rolling-stones".
Another version translates it as "Bark scarecrows. Precipitation is low, averaging Besides Choele Choel has an authorised airport for private small planes and helicopter arrivals. The most developed activity in this location is cattle breeding, agriculture, as well as manufacturing of raw material such as tomato, apples, pear, strawberries, etc.
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