Villa El Chocón is a village and municipality in Neuquén Province in southwestern Argentina. The village was initially created to house the workmen building the Ezequiel Ramos Mexía dam on the Limay River. The dam is now completed and is the site of one of the main hydroelectric power plants in Argentina.Located in Villa El Chocón is the Ernesto Bachmann Paleonthological Museum, which exhibits several fossil remains found nearby, notably those of Giganotosaurus. Also, close to Villa El Chocón, several groups of fossil dinosaur footprints were found.
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