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|} Campana is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the head town and only city of the partido of the same name. It is located about 75 km from Buenos Aires City, on the right-hand margin of the Paraná River, and it has about 84,000 inhabitants as per the 2001 census [INDEC].

Campana and Zárate make up an important industrial region. The city is linked to Zárate and the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge (and from there to the Mesopotamia) by Provincial Route 12. The Pan-American Highway links Campana to Buenos Aires, Rosario, Córdoba and the north of Argentina.

The village of Campana was officially created in 1875. On 6 July 1885 the Campana Partido was created as an offshoot of the Exaltación de la Cruz Partido.

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