Colonia San Miguel Balneario

Colonia San Miguel is a town in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is located 24 kilometers southeast of the city of Olavarria. It was founded by 15 Volga German families who arrived hear in the steamship Hohenstadt in February 1878. San Miguel was officially founded on October 3, 1881, and the colony had taken its name from the Vorsteher (director of the council of elders), Miguel Stoessel. Nevertheless, among the settlers it was called Dehler in remembrance of the village on the Volga where these families came from. Colonia San Miguel Municipal Beach is an area that has large landscaped green spaces, stoves and tables, body baths, electricity and water.