Lomas de Zamora is a city in the

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, Argentina, located south of the

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and within the

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. It is the capital of

Lomas de Zamora Partido Lomas de Zamora is a '' partido'' (district) of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and part of the Greater Buenos Aires urban agglomeration. It has an area of and a population of 613,192 (), the second-most populous partido in the Greater Buenos ...

and has a population of 111,897.

Overview

The city of Lomas de Zamora owes its name to Juan de Zamora, a Creole of Sevillian roots, owner of the lands in 1736. Towards the end of 1860 a large number of people of

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origin settled in the area. These English, Scottish and Irish had arrived as employees of

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. The English educational institution, St. Alban's College was established in the area about 1920. Lomas de Zamora is located in a region that originally supported livestock, grain, fruit, and poultry farms. Present industries include meat packing, grain, and fruit processing, saw milling, and the manufacture of dairy products, chemicals, paper, rubber products, plastics, and leather goods. The city is the site of the traditional

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, an agricultural school and an art museum. The

Universidad de Lomas de Zamora The National University of Lomas de Zamora (, UNLZ) is an Argentine state national university located in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province. Maintaining extensive research facilities, and with over 30,000 students, UNLZ is one of the most im ...

(UNLZ) is one of the most important in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Founded in 1864 as ''Ciudad de La Paz'', the city was given its current name in 1910; the

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city hall was inaugurated in 1938. The city's local

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team is Los Andes, usually referred to as the "Mil rayitas" or "The thousand stripes" because of the design of the team's official jersey. Los Andes is currently playing in Argentina's National B Division; the team's home matches usually brings thousands of fans.

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, a

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figure elected mayor in 1983, was elected

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in 1989,

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in 1991, and was appointed interim

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, serving in 2002-03; he was among the candidates for the presidency in 2011. Lomas de Zamora experienced one of the most significant

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s in the Greater Buenos Aires area in the years following the 2001 crisis in Argentina. This trend has been most evident along Colombres Street (south of downtown), creating an upscale district popularly known as ''Las Lomitas''. Nearly 200 new residential high-rises had thus been completed by 2011. A four-star, 26-story

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hotel was slated to open in 2013, becoming the first of its kind in the southern belt of the Greater Buenos Aires area, but after several years of delay the project has been abandoned in 2015 when investor Finarg went broke. In October 2018 two local business men were detained for alleged irregularities in the planning of the hotel.

Gallery

File:Catedral de Lomas de Zamora.jpg, Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace File:Avenida Hipólito Yrigoyen y Colombres, Lomas de Zamora.jpg,

Hipólito Yrigoyen Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen (12 July 1852 – 3 July 1933) was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 1928 until his overthrow in ...

Avenue File:Plaza Victorio Grigera.jpg, Victorio Grigera Square File:Biblioteca Popular Antonio Mentruyt - Lomas de Zamora.jpg, Antonio Mentruyt Library File:Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina - panoramio (36).jpg, Municipal building File:Cine Español - Ex Sociedad Española de Socorros Mutuos - Lomas de Zamora.JPG, Cine Teatro Español of Lomas de Zamora File:Estación de Lomas de Zamora c.1920.jpg, Lomas de Zamora station, c. 1925. File:Plaza Victorio Grigera - Lomas de Zamora - 1885.jpg, Plaza Victorio Grigera in 1885 File:Estacion Lomas de Zamora - 1902.jpg, Train Station, c.1900

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