[2] Located in Villa El Chocón Cerros Colorados is the Ernesto Bachmann Paleontological Museum,[3] which exhibits several fossil remains found nearby, notably those of Giganotosaurus.

The construction of this complex changed the place's physiognomy, which is characterised by a semi-arid and a few sparsely located inhabitants, which mainly bred goats and sheep.

During the 1968–1972 period, Villa El Chocón had a large migratory influx that allowed it to have more than 5,000 inhabitants, by incorporating workers from other Argentine provinces and from other countries.

Originally created as an additional piece of the undertaking, Villa El Chocón passed to provincial jurisdiction upon the granting of the hydroelectrical complex.

Villa El Chocón is made up of five neighbourhoods: I, II, III, Piedras Coloradas, and Barrio Llequén at the outskirts of the village.

The Piedras Coloradas neighbourhood, also known as "140 Lotes", is located in the zone among the Police Department, the Town Hospital and Neighborhood I. and it is the newest in terms of both people settlement and construction.

The village has a Town Hall, an office of Tourism, the Ernesto Bachmann Museum, a Paleonthology Workshop and formal education school; a primary school and a secondary school, a church, a bank, a local library, shops, offices of the Social Security Institute of Neuquén (Instituto de Seguridad Social del Neuquén, I. S. S. N.), a post office, Justice of the Peace, toilets, a bus stop, a Fire Department, a police station, a hospital, a delegation of Argentine National Gendarmerie, forest ranger delegations, a delegation of Argentine Naval Prefecture, a municipal gymnasium, courts of basketball, tennis and bowls, football pitches, a swimming pool, camping areas, green areas, a beach with white sand, a multi-purpose room, an amphitheatre, hostels, cottages for rent, a restaurant, a municipal inn, overlooks, dinosaur footprints a YPF service station, offices of E. P. A. S. and E. P. E. N., a radio station ( FM 106.1), and the hydroelectric dam.

Touristic attractions in the village are the museum, the hydroelectric dam, many overlooks, the trail of Cañadón Escondido, the dinosaur footprints, The Giants, the reservoir and the pier.

[4] The Ernesto Bachmann Paleontological Museum was created since the discovery of the remains of Giganotosaurus carolinii, one of the world's largest carnivorous dinosaurs, found in July 1993 by Rubén Darío Carolini, 18 kilometres (roughly 11.2 miles) to the southwest of Villa El Chocón.

Fossil remains of other prehistoric marine and terrestrial reptiles, both found at the site and donated, replicas of bones, fossilised worm trails, the car used and created by Carolini, rocks, et cetera.