Burzaco is a city in

Almirante Brown Partido Almirante Brown is a partido of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, located at the south of the Gran Buenos Aires urban area, at coordinates . It has an area of and 555,731 inhabitants (), and its capital is Adrogué. Name The partido is na ...

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, Argentina. It has an area of 22.77 km², holds a population of 98,859 (). It is 27 kilometres from

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city, to which it is linked by the

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South. Although there were some farms in the area since at least since the end of the 18th century, Burzaco was first established as a town soon after the arrival of the railway in 1865. The current city is the site of the country's first ever

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monument, in Burzaco's main square.

External links

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Municipal website

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