Project number: [JOWBR, ARG-02363]

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BASAVILBASO in ARGENTINA

Basavilbaso Colony is in central / eastern Entre Rios province, 340 km from Buenos Aires, 84 km from Villa Clara Colony, 63 km from Ingeniero Sajaroff Colony, 56 km from Carmel Colony.

Formerly called Lucienville, the town preserves three synagogues, two Jewish cemeteries, and an operating agricultural cooperative.

The colony comprises 40,000 hectares of clay soil and cattle pasture. The railroad reached Baso, as it is called, on 30 June 1887 and divided the town into four sections. The first settlers were from Italy and joined the Russian Jews in 1892, Mainly from Bessarabia and Kherson.

The town was named from Baron Hirsch's late son Lucien, and the impetus for his philanthropy. The first stage of settlement follows a Russian shtetl arrangement. At the second stage, about 1900, land to the north and south was purchased by JCA. By 1940, the town was 30% Jewish.

Cemetery overview