Monte Grande is a city which forms part of the

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Greater Buenos Aires Greater Buenos Aires ( es, Gran Buenos Aires, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area ( es, Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, AMBA), refers to the urban agglomeration comprising the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the adjac ...

. It is the

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Esteban Echeverría Partido Esteban Echeverría Partido is a partido in the Gran Buenos Aires urban area, in Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of 300,959 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Monte Grande, which ...

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, Argentina. It was founded on April 3, 1889, by a company named ''Sociedad Coni, Sansisena y Cía.'', and currently has an area of 22.57 km² and a population of 109,644 inhabitants (). Named for the '' Pago de Monte Grande'' founded by a

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, the town initially grew around tala and

ombú ''Phytolacca dioica'', commonly known as ombú, is a massive evergreen tree native to the Pampa of Argentina. As its specific epithet suggests, it is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. It has an umbrella-like canopy that ...

forests, to which

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s and peach trees were later added. The Sociedad Coni, Sansinena y Cía., prominent

Avellaneda Avellaneda (, ) is a port city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the seat of the Avellaneda Partido, whose population was 342,677 as per the . Avellaneda is located within the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, and is connected ...

-area

saladero Saladero is a basic industry that produces salted meat such as charqui. It was one of the earliest industries of Argentina and Uruguay after the Argentine War of Independence, benefiting from the availability of cattle in the Humid Pampas and the ...

operators, purchased the land from the Fair family in 1889; Governor

Máximo Paz Máximo Paz (April 15, 1851 – November 7, 1931) was an Argentine politician who served as Senator, Deputy and Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires. He was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Marcos Paz and Micaela Cascallares, belonging to a fa ...

signed a bill establishing Monte Grande on April 3 of that year. Among Monte Grande's first significant businesses were

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opened by Coni & Sansinena, and the Bon Marché market.

was established in 1913, with Monte Grande as its county seat. A number of

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plants operated here during much of the 20th century, though these eventually closed. A

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bottling plant and the Sofía Santamarina Hospital thus became two of the largest employers in the city, which became a

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with a services-oriented economy. In Monte Grande, there was an oversea telegraphy radio station. File:M grande 02.jpg, "Paseo Alem" File:Streets in Monte Grande.jpg, Civic Center File:Plaza B.Mitre.JPG, Mitre Square File:Estação Monte Grande.jpg, Train station

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