Covunco Centro is a village and municipality in the Zapala Department, Neuquén Province, in southwestern Argentina.
[1] It is located at the crossroads of provincial routes 3 and 14, 1.5 km from the center of Mariano Moreno, of which it is a suburb, between both towns they have 2,660 inhabitants (Indec, 2010).
The town was the first permanent military settlement in Patagonia, which was built in 1937; Its streets are paved and the houses of the officers and non-commissioned officers are distinguished by tile and stone coverings.
Engineers of German origin presided over the construction that included a power plant and irrigation canals for the town; The town of Mariano Moreno had its origin in this settlement, since many of its first settlers were personnel who arrived for the construction of the barracks.
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