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Varvarco
Municipality and village in Neuquén Province, Argentina From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Varvarco is a village and municipality in Neuquén Province in southwestern Argentina.[1]
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History
During the final stages of the independence wars Varvarco, located in indigenous territory, became the main base of the Pincheira brothers, a royalist outlaw gang. More than a hideout the operations of the Pincheiras and their indigenous allies effectively turning Varvarco into a large town with 2000 Chilean women and 40,000 heads of cattle grazing in the nearby countryside.[2]
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