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Detailed explanation-1: -It is generally thought that the dance developed in the late 19th century in working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentina and was practiced by Argentine dancers, musicians, and immigrant laborers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tango, in its risqué early stages of the bordellos of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, grew out of a confluence of native and immigrant cultures-namely Argentine, Uruguayan, Afro-Argentine/Uruguayan, European and Jewish-at the end of the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -The tango evolved about 1880 in dance halls and perhaps brothels in the lower-class districts of Buenos Aires, where the Spanish tango, a light-spirited variety of flamenco, merged with the milonga, a fast, sensual, and disreputable Argentine dance; it also shows possible influences from the Cuban habanera.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.