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Scouting and Guiding in Argentina

Scouting and Guiding organizations in Argentina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ6384209 ↗
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The Scouting and Guiding movement in Argentina consists of at least ten independent organizations as well as some international units. Scouting was officially founded in Argentina in 1912, shortly after the publication of "Scouting For Boys" in Spanish, was granted a National Charter in 1917, and was among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922.

A Scout patrol of Anglo-Argentine students greeted Baden-Powell on his way to visit Argentina, Uruguay and Chile in 1908. At 1937 a Catholic Scout Union (USCA) was created under the sponsorship of the Roman Catholic Church and operated separately until December 2, 1996, when both national associations (INSA and USCA) merged to form the Scouts de Argentina.

History

The origin of Scouting in Argentina is almost simultaneous with its appearance in England in 1907.

The Scouting begins to be applied in Argentina in August 1908 following publication of the book 'Scouting for Boys' and comes from individual initiatives, often in English schools.

Is institutionalized in 1912 in an association at the national level, which at the end of 1917 is recognized by a Presidential decree by Dr. Hipólito Yrigoyen as a National Institution. Despite this, some groups did not join that institution not to share the focus on educational programs.

At the end of the 1920s are beginning to emerge as homogeneous religious groups sponsored by the Catholic Church, which since 1937 institutionalizing the Union Scouts Católicos Argentinos.

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“Scouting and Guiding in Argentina” enters the record as scouting and Guiding organizations in Argentina. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scouting, Guiding and Argentina can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Scouting and Guiding in Argentina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.