Coronel Pringles () is a city in the south of the
Buenos Aires Province in
Argentina
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, situated near the mountains of Pillahuincó. It is the government seat of the
Coronel Pringles Partido
Coronel Pringles is a Partidos of Buenos Aires, partido of the Buenos Aires Province, Province of Buenos Aires in Argentina. In the southern part of the province, it was founded on 10 July 1882 by the provincial government when they divided the t ...
.
In 1882, the provincial government of
Buenos Aires
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created the ''
partido'' ("civil parish") of
Coronel Pringles
Coronel Pringles () is a city in the south of the Buenos Aires Province in Argentina, situated near the mountains of Pillahuincó. It is the government seat of the Coronel Pringles Partido.
In 1882, the provincial government of Buenos Aires Pro ...
by dividing the territory of Tres Arroyos into the partidos of
Coronel Suárez
Coronel Suárez is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative centre for Coronel Suárez Partido. Its population is largely made up of Argentines of Volga German descent.
In its surroundings, within Coronel Suárez Parti ...
,
Tres Arroyos
Tres Arroyos is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative seat of Tres Arroyos Partido.
The city has a sizable population of Danish and Dutch descent.
Tres Arroyos is served by Tres Arroyos Airport.
Climate
Tres Ar ...
and Coronel Pringles. The latter, and its main town, were named after
Coronel Juan Pascual Pringles, a member of grenadiers regiment of
General San Martín's army that fought in the wars of independence against the Spanish.
Located a distance of from
Bahía Blanca and from
Buenos Aires
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, Pringles has a population of around 23,794 inhabitants (2001). Its main economic activities are agriculture, and sheep and cattle raising.
History
* 1882: Coronel Pringles partido was created on 10 July and the town on 24 September.
* 1890: The first mayor, Felipe S. Medina, was elected.
* 1900: The church of Santa Rosa de Lima was inaugurated by the Bishop of
La Plata, Monsignor Mariano Espinosa, on 14 January. The town was linked by telegraph to the rest of the province.
* 1903: Opening, on 15 July, of the wide gauge railway line through Coronel Pringles, linking
Olavarría and
Bahía Blanca, and built by the British-owned company
Gran Ferrocarril Sur
The Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway (BAGS) ( es, Ferrocarril del Sud) was one of the ''Big Four'' broad gauge, , British-owned companies that built and operated railway networks in Argentina. The company was founded by Edward Lumb in 1862 ...
. This company was later to become part of
Ferrocarril General Roca
The General Roca Railway (FCGR) (native name: Ferrocarril General Roca) is a broad gauge railway in Argentina which runs from Constitución station in Buenos Aires to the south of the country through the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, ...
after the railways were nationalised in 1948.
* 1905: A branch of the Nacional Bank of Argentina (Banco de la Nación Argentina) was opened.
* 1908: Building of the 600-seat Spanish Theater (Teatro Español) was completed.
* 1910: On 1 January the
Coronel Suárez
Coronel Suárez is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative centre for Coronel Suárez Partido. Its population is largely made up of Argentines of Volga German descent.
In its surroundings, within Coronel Suárez Parti ...
to
Puerto Belgrano
Port Belgrano Naval Base ( es, Base Naval Puerto Belgrano - BNPB) is the largest naval base of the Argentine Navy, situated next to Punta Alta, near Bahía Blanca, about south of Buenos Aires. It is named after the brigantine ''General Be ...
section of the broad gauge railway line through Pringles, built by the French-owned company
Ferrocarril Rosario y Puerto Belgrano
The Rosario and Puerto Belgrano Railway (Spanish: Ferrocarril Rosario y Puerto Belgrano, and in French: Compagnie de Chemins de Fer Rosario-Puerto Belgrano) was a French-owned railway company which operated a broad gauge, , single track li ...
was opened. The section linking Pringles to
Rosario was opened later that year on 15 December. This railway company was later to become part of
Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre
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The club plays its home games at Estadio Anna Mercedes Campos, a stadium located in the City suburb of Sonsonate, Sonsonate, since 2009. The team ...
after the railways were nationalised in 1948.
* 1912: The children's home (Hogar del Niño) was opened.
* 1914: The poet Almafuerte visited Pringles and gave a lecture in the Spanish Theater (Teatro Espanol).
* 1915: The newspaper ''El Orden'' was founded in October.
* 1916: The ''Club Leando N. Alem'' was founded.
* 1919: A branch of the Provincial Bank of Buenos Aires (Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires) was opened.
* 1928: The Pringles Bank (Banco de Pringles) was founded.
* 1930: Television transmissions first received.
* 1932: Pringles Public Library (Biblioteca Popular Pringles) was opened.
* 1933: The famous tango singer,
Carlos Gardel, gave a concert at the Spanish Theater (Teatro Espanol) on 18 May, accompanied by his guitarists
Horacio Pottorossi,
Guillermo Barbieri,
Domingo Riverol and
Julio Vivas. Barbieri and Riverol died along with Gardel in a plane crash two years later.
* 1934: Coronel Pringles was declared a city.
* 1938: The constructions of the Town Hall (Palacio Municipal), Municipal Slaughterhouse (El Matadero Municipal), the Main Square (La Plaza) and The Avenue (Las Ramblas) were completed under the direction of the architect
Francisco Salamone.
* 1938: The Rural Society (La Sociedad Rural) was founded.
* 1941: The Flying Club (Aeroclub) and the Electrical Cooperative (La Cooperativa Electrica) were founded. A local branch of the
Rotary Club was founded .
* 1944: The Old People's Home (El Hogar de Ancianos) was opened.
* 1948: El Fogon de los Gauchos founded.
* 1950: The Voluntary Fire Service (El cuerpo de Bomberos Voluntarios) was created.
* 1956: El Club de Pesca Social y Deporte was founded.
* 1965: The
Lions Club
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(Club de Leones) was founded under the presidency of Augusto Mariani
* 1966:
Alliance française
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was set up.
* 1968: A local branch office of the newspaper ''La Nueva Provincia'' opened.
* 1970: On 10 July the writer
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...
gave a talk entitled Los Malones y La Conquista del Desierto (in English: The Indian Resistance and the
Conquest of the Desert
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) in the Municipal de Cultura.
* 1981: The City Cultural Museum (La Casa de Cultura y Museo de la Ciudad) opened.
* 1982: An acacia tree was planted by Jorge Luis Borges in the Garden of Historic Trees (Patio de los Árboles Historicos) of the Casa de la Cultura on 12 September to celebrate the centenary of the foundation of Pringles in 1882.
Climate
Mayors of Coronel Pringles
Celebrities born in Coronel Pringles
*
Juan Carlos Thorry
Juan Carlos Thorry (June 28, 1908, in Coronel Pringles – February 12,
2000 in San Antonio de Padua), born José Antonio Torrontegui, was an Argentine film actor, tango musician and director.
Best known for his work in tango films in the Ci ...
(1908–2000) film actor, tango musician.
*
César Aira
César Aira ( Argentine Spanish: ; born 23 February 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentinian writer and translator, and an exponent of contemporary Argentinian literature. Aira has published over a hundred short book ...
, writer, born 1949
*
Arturo Carrera, poet.
*
Celeste Carballo
Celeste Carballo (born September 21, 1956, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine singer-songwriter in rock, blues, hard rock, punk and tango. She became known in the early 1980s for her distinctive voice range from B2 to F#6 in head voice. H ...
, singer and composer of rock music.
Access roads
Provincial routes
* Access to the ''partido'' is via
Provincial Route 51 or
Provincial Route 85.
Train
Passenger service to Buenos Aires (twice weekly) and Bahia Blanca (twice weekly) operated by
Ferrobaires
The Unidad Ejecutora del Plan Ferroviario Provincial (UEPFP) (in English: "Executive Unit of the Provincial Railway Plan"), mostly known under its trade name Ferrobaires, was a public railway company which operated extensive long-distance passen ...
on the
Constitución - Bahía Blanca (vía Pringles) lin
Air
* Aerodrome provincial, , 3 km southeast of the city. En Route 51 km 617 and Pringles access through 9 de Julio , Tel +(54)(2922) 46-2488
* Airport commander Spore, Location: Bahía Blanca (1 hour by land) on Route 3 North Ex km 675 , IATA Code: BHI, Cabotage , Tel + 54 (291) 486-0300
References
* Centenario de Coronel Pringles, Aldo H. Pirola, Carlos A. Barragan, Editorial Nueva Era, Coronel Pringles, Prov. de Buenos Aires, Argentina (1983).
* Andres M. Regalsky, ''Foreign Capital, Local Interests and Railway Development in Argentina: French Investments in Railways'', 1900–1914, Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol 21, No.3 (October 1989), pp. 425–452.
External links
*
Official municipal site
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Populated places established in 1882