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Wikipedia: Viedma is the capital city of the Argentine Río Negro Province and the Adolfo Alsina Department of that province. The city of 47,246 inhabitants (2001) is located on the southern margin of the Río Negro River, 30 kilometres before from the sea, and 960 km from Buenos Aires on the National Route 3. Together with Carmen de Patagones city across the river in the Buenos Aires Province, it is the oldest settlement in Patagonia, founded by Francisco de Biedma y Narváez under the name of Nuestra Señora del Carmen on April 22, 1779.
![[Bridge over the Río Negro linking the twin cities.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Rio_Negro_s.jpg "Bridge over the Río Negro linking the twin cities.")
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