Machagai (Spanish pronunciation: [matʃaˈɣaj]) is a city in Chaco Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Veinticinco de Mayo Department.

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Machagai
City
Machagai Location in Argentina
Coordinates: 26°55′S 60°02′W
Country	Argentina
Province	Chaco
Department	Veinticinco de Mayo
1st level Municipality	Machagai
Elevation	83 m (272 ft)
Population  (2010 census)
• Total	21,997
Time zone	UTC−3 (ART)
CPA Base	H 3534
Area code	+54 3734
Climate	Cfa

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In the Qom language "Machagai" means "lowland", referring to its geographical features as a slope near rivers like the Bermejo and Paraná.

Native Argentines like the Qom people used to wander through the area, giving the place its name. After the end of the Argentine Civil War, the government turned its attention to scarcely populated regions of the country like Patagonia and Chaco and started to promote the arrival of immigrants to populate and strengthen them. The province of Chaco was one of the most transformed by this wave of immigration.^[1] In 1909 the first Serbian immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire came to Machagai and founded their agricultural colonies, in 1921 by State decree it was promoted to the category of town. Until the mid-20th century, Machagai continued to receive immigrants from Yugoslavia and Spain.^{[citation needed]}