Gancedo is a village and municipality in

Chaco Province Chaco (; Wichi: ''To-kós-wet''), officially the Province of Chaco ( es, provincia del Chaco ), is one of the 23 provinces in Argentina. Its capital and largest city, is Resistencia. It is located in the north-east of the country. It is borde ...

in northern

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. In September 2016, a huge

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– the second largest ever found – was exhumed near the town. It weighed 30 tonnes and fell to Earth around 2000 BC.

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{{coord, 27, 30, S, 61, 42, W, display=title, region:AR_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki Populated places in Chaco Province