Florentino Ameghino is a town in

Buenos Aires Province Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...

, Argentina. It is the

administrative seat An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lux ...

of the

Florentino Ameghino Partido Florentino Ameghino Partido is a partido in the northwest of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 8,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Florentino Ameghino, which is from B ...

. The town is named after Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist

Florentino Ameghino Florentino Ameghino (born Giovanni Battista Fiorino Giuseppe Ameghino September 19, 1853 – August 6, 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially ...

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* Populated places in Buenos Aires Province Populated places established in 1910 {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub