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La Matanza Partido
La Matanza ('The Slaughter' in Spanish) is a ''Partidos of Buenos Aires, partido'' (county or department) located in the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. This provincial subdivision had 1,775,272 inhabitants (at the 2010 Census) in an area of . Its capital city is San Justo, Buenos Aires, San Justo, which is located around from the Buenos Aires, City of Buenos Aires. History The origin of the name is uncertain. Is believed to reference a confrontation that Diego, the brother of conquistador Pedro de Mendoza, had with the Querandí tribe in 1536, where he and 22 soldiers that were with him died. This area and the river were named La Matanza (The Slaughter) probably in his name, sometimes using the plural form (Matanzas). The oldest document in which the name of La Matanza appears is dated 29 July 1603. The partido was named Pago until 1730, then Partido de Matanza y Pozos (Partido of Slaughter and Wells): it was then a largely underp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partidos Of Buenos Aires
A ''partido'' is the second-level administrative subdivision only in the . They are formally considered to be a single administrative unit, usually contain one or more population centers (i.e., towns and cities), and are divided into ''localidades''. The subdivision in partidos in Buenos Aires Province is distinct from all other provinces of Argentina, which call their second-level subdivisions ''departamento'' and are further subdivided into distinct municipalities. History By the end of 18th century the town council ( cabildo) of Buenos Aires established the first partidos in the countryside: San Isidro del Pago de la Costa ( San Isidro) in 1779 and San Vicente, Quilmes, Magdalena, La Matanza, Cañada de Morón ( Morón), Las Conchas ( Tigre) and San Pedro in 1784. At the head of every partido, the cabildo appointed a rural judge called ''Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad''. The judge, or alcalde, had the mission to maintain the law and order in the surrounding rural area of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciudad Evita
Ciudad Evita is a city in the '' partido'' of La Matanza in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, located 20 kilometers (13 mi) from Downtown Buenos Aires within the Greater Buenos Aires metro area. Ciudad Evita has a population of 68,650 (2001). History Ciudad Evita was established in 1947 by Argentine President Juan Perón in Decree No. 33221 as a planned community, and the initial settlement was developed by the Eva Perón Foundation. Perón's decree stipulated that this new suburb of Buenos Aires be named after the namesake of the foundation, his wife Eva "Evita" Duarte de Perón, and was named "Ciudad Evita" meaning Evita City in Spanish. the city's original 15,000 homes were designed in a simplified Spanish Colonial Revival style favored during the Perón era, and allegedly featured a street layout built in the shape of Eva Perón's profile, which seemingly "waved" to airline passengers from Ministro Pistarini International Airport, located 6 kilometers (4 mi) south of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virrey Del Pino
Virrey del Pino is a city in La Matanza Partido, in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. With a total of 117 km², it is the most extensive city in the La Matanza Partido. It is crossed by the RN 3 between kilometers 34 and 48. In this town, there is a Mercedes-Benz plant, in which the Sprinter and Vito utilities are produced, the chassis OF 1621, OH 1621 & 1721 and the Atron 1720 truck. Also in this town, there is the main plant of soft drinks Manaos (drink) and the radio station of Radio Continental. History The city's name means "Viceroy del Pino" and refers to Joaquín del Pino Joaquín del Pino Sánchez de Rojas Romero y Negrete (January 20, 1729 – April 11, 1804), was a Spanish military engineer and politician, who held various positions in the South American colonial administration. Early life At the age of 18, ..., who was viceroy of the Río de la Plata from 1801 to 1804. There are no historical documents explaining why the city received this name. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciudad Madero, Buenos Aires
Ciudad Madero, also known as ''Villa Eduardo Madero'', is a city in La Matanza Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is located within the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. Populated originally by the Querandí people, a portion of the land today occupied by the city was deed to Pedro Gutiérrez by Governor Hernando Arias de Saavedra in 1615. It was added to Martín José de Altolaguirre's extensive holdings (which would occupy most of northern La Matanza County) in 1775, and was in turn purchased by Francisco Ramos Mejía in 1808. Prior to Mrs. Ramos Mejía's death in 1860, she bequeathed the property among her four children, the second of whom (her daughter, Marta) married a family ally in their struggles against Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas, Francisco Bernabé Madero. The Maderos lived in rural Dolores Partido; they, however, retained the property in La Matanza as an investment, and leased parcels to tallow refiners. Following Madero's death in 1896, these l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Luzuriaga
A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity, sometimes transferred to the Church for reuse as a monastery. Then they gradually re-evolved through the Middle Ages into elegant upper-class country homes. In the Early Modern period, any comfortable detached house with a garden near a city or town was likely to be described as a villa; most survivals have now been engulfed by suburbia. In modern parlance, "villa" can refer to various types and sizes of residences, ranging from the suburban semi-detached double villa to, in some countries, especially around the Mediterranean, residences of above average size in the countryside. Roman Roman villas included: * the ''villa urbana'', a suburban or country seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Celina
Ciudad Celina (formerly Villa Celina) is a city in La Matanza Partido, in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. It's is bordered to the north by Avenida General Paz, to the west by Ricchieri Freeway, to the south by , and to the east by the banks of the Riachuelo River The River The Matanza River is known by several names, including, in Spanish, Río de la Matanza ("the slaughter river" in English), Río Matanza ("slaughter river"), Río Mataderos ("slaughterhouses river"), Río de la Manzana ("the apple rive .... References Greater Buenos Aires Populated places in Buenos Aires Province {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veinte De Junio
Veinte de Junio is a town located 35 km from Buenos Aires, in La Matanza Partido, La Matanza, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Veinte de Junio is an outback sleepy rural town, relatively isolated from the rest of the Greater Buenos Aires. The town and railway station, ''Estación 20 de Junio'', were named after Argentina’s National Flag Day: June 20. According to the , the population was 828. The town is bordered by Pontevedra, Buenos Aires Province, Pontevedra (north), González Catán (east), Marcos Paz Partido, Marcos Paz (southwest) and Virrey del Pino (southeast). ''Alejo Castex'' is the only paved street and it is lined with tall trees and weekend-houses; only can be heard the bird songs of thousands of rufous-bellied thrushes, chalk-browed mockingbirds, rufous horneros and the far-away roar of tractors working on the farms. Veinte de Junio only counts with a general store, a kindergarten, and a primary school, primary and secondary school, secondary public schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapiales
Tapiales is a town in Argentina. It is located in La Matanza Partido and forms part of Greater Buenos Aires. Tapiales had a population of 15,158 at the 2001 census. Tapiales was established in 1902 by Agustín Elía along the recently inaugurated Buenos Aires Western Railway ( es, Ferrocarril Oeste de Buenos Aires). Elía, who had purchased the land from the estate of the former Vice President, Francisco Bernabé Madero, sold the property in 1906 to ''La Franco Argentina'', a prominent Buenos Aires real estate company. ''Chacra de Los Tapiales'' ("adobe wall ranch"), built by the Altolaguirre family in the early 19th century, gave the settlement its name and remains as a town landmark. La Franco Argentina, in turn, sold the land in lots to investors and prospective homeowners, and in 1908, the railway, in which La Franco Argentina owned a stake, inaugurated a station at the site, as well as a rail yard. The town was divided geographically by the opening of the Riccheri Freeway i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramos Mejía
Ramos Mejía is a Town in La Matanza Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The town has an area of and a population of 98,547. The city is one of the largest commercial districts in the Western Zone of Greater Buenos Aires. History The land where the city is now located was originally purchased from Martín José de Altolaguirre by Francisco Ramos Mejía in 1808. Ramos Mejía was the son of a merchant from Seville, and had returned from a nine-year stay in the Upper Peru, where his business interests had met with success. The ranch became noteworthy as the site of the first public religious controversy in Argentina, when Ramos Mejía's differences over the interpretation of biblical canon with the local parish priest, Father Castañeda, led to the former's exile from the parish in 1821. The property remained in name of wife, María Antonia Segurola de Ramos Mejía, who became its sole proprietor upon her husband's death in 1828. Confiscated by order of Governor Juan Manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Castillo, Buenos Aires
Rafael Castillo () is a western suburb of Buenos Aires, located in La Matanza Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is part of the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires. It is named after Rafael Castillo, lawyer and politician who served as the minister of the Interior of Argentina from 1904 to 1906 and owner of the lands where he planned the establishment of the town. Rafael Castillo was declared a city by the Provincial Legislature on 18 October 1974. According to the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 147,965. Notable people * Oscar Garré (born 1956), footballer, part of the national squad that won the 1986 FIFA World Cup, was raised in Rafael Castillo. * Leonardo Pisculichi Leonardo Nicolás Pisculichi (; born 18 January 1984) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He won the Copa Sudamericana in 2014 and Copa Libertadores in 2015 with River Plate. Club career Pisculichi started ... (born 1984 in Rafael C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lomas Del Mirador
Lomas del Mirador is a city of the La Matanza Partido in Greater Buenos Aires. Located outside Buenos Aires along the southwest edge of the General Paz Freeway, the city has a population of 51,488 (INDEC, 2001). The land where Lomas del Mirador is located was sold by Ezequiel Ramos Mexía to Pablo Pelluse in 1868. The ranch at the site was known as ''Terrenos del Mirador'' ("the lookout property") in reference to the estancia therein, ''Mirador Santa Lucía''. A neighboring property was owned by the descendants of Governor Manuel Dorrego, a key figure in the Argentine Civil Wars of the 19th century, and the city shield would include a red lookout tower in reference to both the town's name and that family's allegiance to the Federalists during the civil wars. These properties were later sold, and in 1909, the first lots were parceled to investors and homesteaders. It would later be home to a diversified base of light industry Light industry are industries that usually are l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tablada
La Tablada is a city in Argentina. It is located in La Matanza Partido and is part of the Greater Buenos Aires metro area. Overview La Tablada initially developed around the Buenos Aires Western Railway ( es, Ferrocarril Oeste de Buenos Aires) station inaugurated in 1900. The station, located on the 28 km (18 mi) marker along the Haedo—La Plata line, primarily served the wholesale market established nearby in 1901, and in 1909, the settlement's first homestead lots were sold. Most of the settlement's 1,500 early homeowners worked in the wholesale market, which was closely tied to the Liniers cattle market just north of La Tablada, and numerous meat packing plants opened in the town during the 1910s and 1920s. Provincial electricity services and the town's first clinic were established in 1925. The city grew moderately yet steadily in subsequent decades, and became home to the third-largest business and industrial community in La Matanza Partido. The important La Tablada R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
