Carmen de Areco is a town in

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, Argentina. It is the

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Carmen de Areco Partido Carmen de Areco is a partido of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 14,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Carmen de Areco, which is from Buenos Aires. Settlements *Carmen ...

History

In 1779,

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Vértiz ordered Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Bergezé de Ducás to reinforce the line of defence against the native Argentine aborigines. On January 1, 1780, Juan José Sardén officially established the fort and village of "San Claudio de Areco". On September 26, 1812, Carmen de Areco Partido was officially founded. 1857, the name of the town officially changed to "Carmen de Areco". On 24 October 1864, the settlement was declared a town (municipalidad) by provincial law Ley No. 422. Carmen de Areco was since the colonial period, residence of a large number of

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immigrants, including the prisoners of the English Invasions. The first families of Irish immigrants, mostly

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, were arrived in the town of Areco, around 1840. These Irish people were engaged in rural tasks, raising livestock and agriculture, including their participation in politics as

Miguel Duffy Miguel Duffy (1845–1925) was an Argentine landowner, merchant and politician, who served for several periods as Intendant of Carmen de Areco, in the Buenos Aires province. Biography He was born in Carmen de Areco, the son of John Duffy, bor ...

, belonging to a family of

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, who served as mayor of Carmen de Areco for several periods. The Parish of Nuestra Señora del Carmen was established in 1815, and the St. Patrick Parish of Areco, towards the end of the 19th century. In 1907, the train station was built in the English Colonial style, and on January 22, 1908, the first passenger service arrived in the town.

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* Populated places in Buenos Aires Province Populated places established in 1780 {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub