Almirante Brown is a

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of the Buenos Aires Province,

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, located at the south of the

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urban area, at coordinates . It has an area of 129.33 km² (49.9 sq mi) and 555,731 inhabitants (), and its capital is

Adrogué Adrogué () is a city in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, located 23 km south of Buenos Aires. It is the administrative headquarters for Almirante Brown Partido (county). At slightly more than 30,000 inhabitants, it is a prominent residentia ...

Name

The partido is named after

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born General William Brown who led the Argentine navy in the

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and helped Argentina gain her independence from the

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Cities

Burzaco Burzaco is a city in Almirante Brown Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It has an area of 22.77 km2, holds a population of 98,859 (). It is 27 kilometres from Buenos Aires city, to which it is linked by the Ferrocarril General Roca ...

* Claypole * Don Orione * Rafael Calzada *

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* Longchamps * Malvinas Argentinas *

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* Ministro Rivadavia * San Francisco de Asís *

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San Francisco Solano San Francisco Solano is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires agglomeration. It is divided between the Quilmes Quilmes () is a city on the coast of the Rio de la Plata, in the , on the south ea ...

References

External links

Municipalidad de Almirante Brown official site

Ministry of the Interior statistics

Almirante Brown Police Department
Partidos of Buenos Aires Province 1875 establishments in Argentina {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub