Campana is a city in the Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires Province

The Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, in the Campana Partido

Campana Partido

Campana Partido is a partido in the north-east of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.The provincial subdivision has a population of around 84,000 inhabitants in an area of 982 km² , and its capital city is Campana, which is located 75 km  from Buenos Aires.-Economy:The economy...

. It is located about 75 km (47 mi) from Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

 City, on the right-hand margin of the Paraná River

Paraná River

The Paraná River is a river in south Central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina for some . It is second in length only to the Amazon River among South American rivers. The name Paraná is an abbreviation of the phrase "para rehe onáva", which comes from the Tupi language...

, Its population is 84,000 inhabitants as per the .

Campana and Zárate

Zárate, Buenos Aires

Zárate is a city in the northeast of the . It lies on the western shore of the Paraná River, from Buenos Aires. Its population as per the is 101,271 inhabitants. It is the head town and the only city in the partido of the same name....

 make up an important industrial region. The city is linked to Zárate and the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge

Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge

The Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridges are two cable-stayed road and railway bridges in Argentina, crossing the Paraná River between the cities of Zárate, Buenos Aires Province, and Brazo Largo, Entre Ríos Province....

 (and from there to the Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia, Argentina

La Mesopotamia, Región Mesopotámica is the humid and verdant area of north-east Argentina, comprising the provinces of Misiones, Entre Ríos and Corrientes. The region called Litoral consists of the Mesopotamia and the provinces of Chaco, Formosa and Santa Fe...

) by Provincial Route 12. The Pan-American Highway

Pan-American Highway

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 links Campana to Buenos Aires, Rosario

Rosario

Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....

, Córdoba

Córdoba, Argentina

Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province. Córdoba is the second-largest city in Argentina after the federal capital Buenos Aires, with...

 and the north of Argentina.

The village of Campana was officially created in 1875. On 6 July 1885 the Campana Partido was created as an offshoot of the Exaltación de la Cruz Partido.

Campana has been since late 19th century and to a lesser degree today an important shipyard and port for passengers traveling to the remote Ibicuy Islands

Ibicuy Islands

The Ibicuy Islands are a maze of low-level islands in the east of the Paraná Delta, within Entre Ríos Province, Argentina. They are located between the Paraná and Uruguay Rivers. The islands are part of the Islas del Ibicuy Department and have scattered but important settlements, like their...

 of the Paraná Delta

Paraná Delta

The Paraná Delta is the delta of the Paraná River in Argentina. The Paraná flows north–south and becomes an alluvial basin between the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos and Santa Fe, then emptying into the Río de la Plata....

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Sports

Campana is home to Club Villa Dálmine

Villa Dálmine

Club Villa Dálmine is a football club from Campana district in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The team currently plays in Primera C Metropolitana, which is the regionalised fourth tier of the Argentine Football Association league system.Due to some financial crisis, the club was named Club...

, a football club that currently plays in Argentina's regionalised 4th division

Primera C Metropolitana

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, and to Puerto Nuevo

Club Atlético Puerto Nuevo

Club Atlético Puerto Nuevo is an Argentine association football club from Campana in Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. The team currently plays at the Primera D Metropolitana, the fifth division of the Argentine league system....

, an older club that plays in 5th division

Primera D Metropolitana

The Primera D is one of two leagues that form the regionalised fifth level of the Argentine football league system. The other league at level five is the Torneo Argentino C....

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