Makallé is a town in Chaco Province

Chaco Province

Chaco is an Argentine province located in the north of the country, near the border with Paraguay. Its capital is Resistencia on the Paraná River opposite the city of Corrientes...

, Argentina

Argentina

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. It is the head town of the General Donovan Department

General Donovan Department

General Donovan is a department of Chaco Province in Argentina, named after General Antonio Donovan.The provincial subdivision has a population of about 13,500 inhabitants in an area of 1,487 km², and its capital city is Makallé, which is located around 1,060 km from Capital...

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The town is named after a battle during the Italian invasion of Abyssinia

Ethiopia

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 in the 19th Century.

History

The Argentine government established a line of fortresses in Lapachito, Ciervo Petiso y Makallé during the Conquest of Chaco campaign, intended to occupy the indigenous areas in the North-East of Argentina. These fortresses formed the basis of future settlement in the region. By the 1890s the indigenous people had given up the area and it was settled by Italian immigrants amongst others.