Grand Bourg is a city in

Malvinas Argentinas Partido Malvinas Argentinas Partido is a '' partido'' in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, in the Gran Buenos Aires urban area. It has an area of and according to the preliminary results of the 2010 Census, the population was 321,833 inhabitants. () ...

, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires agglomeration.

Toponymy

Grand Bourg is named after the French

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

Grand-Bourg Grand-Bourg is a commune on the island of Marie-Galante, in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles Caribbean. It is located in the southwest of Marie-Galante, and is the most populous of the three commune ...

, where the leader of the Argentine War of Independence, General

José de San Martín José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (25 February 177817 August 1850), known simply as José de San Martín () or '' the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru'', was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and centr ...

, lived in exile.

History

The location belonged to the 19th century

estancia An estancia is a large, private plot of land used for farming or raising cattle or sheep. Estancias in the southern South American grasslands, the ''pampas'', have historically been estates used to raise livestock, such as cattle or sheep. In Pu ...

s of Juan Andrés de Cabo and Pastor Parra.

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s and

dairy farm Dairy farming is a class of agriculture for long-term production of milk, which is processed (either on the farm or at a dairy plant, either of which may be called a dairy) for eventual sale of a dairy product. Dairy farming has a history th ...

s thus predominated until, in 1948, the first lots were sold by the G.C. Grosso

real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more general ...

company along the Belgrano North Railway Line. A stop was opened at the site in 1951, followed by a station in 1956. Known initially as ''Primero de Mayo'', the station and town were renamed ''Grand Bourg'' in 1959. The city became a significant

manufacturing Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to ...

center in subsequent decades. The "Cemetery of Grand Bourg" was the site of one of the largest

mass grave A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution, although an exact ...

s found in the aftermath of Argentina's

Dirty War The Dirty War ( es, Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina ( es, dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina, links=no) for the period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983 as ...

of the late 1970s; over three hundred cadavers thus buried were located at the cemetery in 1984. Grand Bourg was declared a city by the Provincial Legislature on November 28, 1985.

References

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Municipal website map
Populated places in Buenos Aires Province Populated places established in 1948 Malvinas Argentinas Partido Cities in Argentina {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub