Immigration in Argentina

From year 1857, and specially from the promulgation of the Law N° 817 on October in 1876, called of Immigration and Colonization, to 1920. Argentina was the second country of America that more immigrants received, only surpassed by the United States.
the immigratory volume received was so hard and diverse, that indelibly marked his impronta in the present reality of the country, influencing in the individuals characteristic of its population. Two nationalities of emphasize numerically in this immigratory eddy, Italian and the Spanish. Of the 5,481,276 immigrants arrived in this period, 2,341,126 (42.7 %) corresponded to Italian and 1,602,752 (29,2%) to Spaniards. In decreasing order they followed the French, the Jews (who in the first listings appeared like Russians, by their place of origin), the Austrohungarian, the Germans, the British, the Swiss, the Portuguese, Belgian and the Dutch. The rest 6.4% were represented by other nationalities in inferior volumes than 0.10% of the total immigratory.

Immigrants of Ropolo Last name

According to the work made by the Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latino Americanos under the direction of Luigi Favero. One million twenty thousand cards were made approximately of Italian that arrived at Buenos Aires between 1882 and 1920. The information comes from the disembarkation lists (general Registry of the immigrants and list of immigrants).
In this data base 8 immigrants with Ropolo last name are registered, whom they embarked in the port of Genova.

Of these immigrants we have been found descending of Anna and Matteo, of the others immigrants has not been found any descendant, reason why esteem that returned to their places of origin.
Anna and Matteo arrived with their children Margarita and Pietro, that appears in the registries as Ropollo last name, and took root in locality of La Francia of the Cordoba's Province.

The brothers Rubén Manuel and Estela Maria Ropolo Leurino made an investigation of the origin of the Ropolo Family who denominated "Ropolo Families in the Republica Argentina"
In this study is indicated that the brothers Lorenzo and Bartolome Ropolo embarked from the port of Genoa.
First one took root in Argentina giving origin to the many Ropolo that we lived in Argentina and Bartolome return to Italy, after living several years in Argentina and not adapting to the exigencies to live being deaf and dumb.

In the volume N°74 de Topografía of the Dirección General de Catastro Provincial (Santa Fe's Province), in pages 113 and 114, it appears the listing of the colonos that according to the Judge of Peace, Don Augusto Hesch, to the October 4^th in 1874 had concessions granted in Franck. José Ropolo appears like proprietor of number 67, 68, 69 and 70.

Another Italian immigrant was Vicente Cipriano Ropolo son of before mentioned Lorenzo Ropolo, who took root and He forms family in Felicia according to consists in the registries of the Church Santa Felicitas.

Also we has been found information that in Villa Nueva, in the Guaymallen Department of the Mendoza´s Province was been the immigrant Santiago Ropolo, being his descendants in this province.

In the locality of Carrilobo in the Cordoba's province was been Domingo Ropolo being his descendants scattered in other localities of the province (Leoness, Bell Ville, Almafuerte and Embalse)