Munro is a city of the
Vicente López Partido
Vicente López is a partido in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is one of the country´s most affluent municipalities.
Vicente López is located 20 kilometers north of downtown Buenos Aires and 80 kilome ...
in northern
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 ...
, Argentina, best known for its
jeans
Jeans are a type of pants or trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of trousers, called "blue jeans", with copper-riveted pockets which were invented by Jacob W. Davis in 1871 and paten ...
and
apparel
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stores and outlets. It is located some 20 km from the downtown of the city.
It is bordered by the neighborhoods of
Villa Adelina
Villa Adelina is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is divided between the counties ('' partidos'') of San Isidro and Vicente López and forms part of the urban conurbation of Greater Buenos Aires. The town is named after Adelina ...
,
Carapachay
Carapachay is a town located in Vicente López Partido in Argentina. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires agglomeration.
History
In 1909 the Ferrocarril Central Córdoba, which subsequently became the Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano, cro ...
and
Martínez on the north;
Villa Ballester
Villa Ballester is a city located in the northern Greater Buenos Aires urban area and it is part of the General San Martín Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is served by the Línea Mitre commuter railway with its station also nam ...
on the west;
Florida Este in the south; and
Olivos to the east. The border streets are Mariano Moreno, Bartolomé Mitre Avenue, Paraná, National Highway 9 (Panamericana), Antonio Malaver, Alexander Fleming, Luis María Drago, Primera Junta, Montes de Oca, Capitán Cajaraville, Juramento, Carlos Calvo, Albarellos, and Belgrano.
There are many sports clubs in Munro such as ''Unión Vecinal de Fomento Munro'' (founded on 1922), ''
Olivos Rugby Club
Olivos Rugby Club is an Argentine rugby union and field hockey club located in the Munro district of Vicente López Partido. The rugby team is member of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires (URBA), having won its only URBA championship in 1940. Ol ...
'' (1927), ''Club Unión de Munro'' (1946), ''Club Social y Deportivo Industrial Munro'' (1947).
Some of Munro's local industries are: Atanor, Fabriloza, Colorín, Virulana, Ripán, Telagoma, Bayer, Gillette and other factories of clothing, lumber, steel, food, etc. In the town were located the
Lumiton
Lumiton is a former film production company and current museum located in Munro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lumiton Studios was founded in 1932 at the start of the golden age of film in that country. Its lowbrow, populist films appealed to local aud ...
filming studios (they still exist today as a museum of the movies filmed there).
History
![Duncan Mackay Munro](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Duncan_Mackay_Munro.jpg)
Although a
grocery store
A grocery store ( AE), grocery shop ( BE) or simply grocery is a store that primarily retails a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged. In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is a synonym for supermarket, a ...
(known as "Pualpería del Fondo de la Legua" and owned by merchant Gregorio Rodríguez) had existed on the corner of Avenida Mitre and Vélez Sarsfield by 1850,
[ the neighborhood of Munro was born with the construction of a station of the Córdoba Central rail line (now Ferrocarril General Belgrano) on April 30, 1912.][MUNRO CUMPLE 109 AÑOS DE HISTORIA]
on El Megáfono, 30 Apr 2021 The English railway company, associated to the Compañía Argentina de Tierras del Norte, acquired lands near the railway and charged its station chief, Alfredo Dionisio Godoy, the lands sale. The station has its name after Scottish immigrant Duncan Mackay Munro (1844–1929), who managed several railway companies in Argentina including Buenos Aires and Ensenada, Santa Fe, and Córdoba Central. Munro was also member of committees for road construction and agriculture, and founding member of the Scottish Church of Buenos Aires. Munro donated lands to build the train station and a park in the current "Munro" district. Besides, Munro's daughter, Adelina Munro Drysdale
Princess Adelina de Colonna, Duchess of Rignano (born Adelina Munro Drysdale; 19 September 1896 – 14 December 1942) was a Scottish Argentine socialite. In her honour, her grandfather Duncan MacKay Munro named the Villa Adelina train station of ...
, would be later honored giving her name to the Villa Adelina
Villa Adelina is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is divided between the counties ('' partidos'') of San Isidro and Vicente López and forms part of the urban conurbation of Greater Buenos Aires. The town is named after Adelina ...
district. Another neighbor town named after her, "Drysdale", was then changed to Carapachay
Carapachay is a town located in Vicente López Partido in Argentina. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires agglomeration.
History
In 1909 the Ferrocarril Central Córdoba, which subsequently became the Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano, cro ...
.
On June 11, 1922, 49 neighbors led by Alfredo Dionisio Godoy founded the Unión Vecinal de Fomento de Munro. With the population growth, many stores were opened that formed an important commercial centre. Munro was also the site of Lumiton Studios, a movie production house founded by local radio pioneer Enrique Susini which, from 1931 to 1952, turned out over 180 full-length films and became among the best-known in Argentine cinema
Cinema of Argentina refers to the film industry based in Argentina. The Argentine cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of Argentina or by Argentine filmmakers abroad.
The Argentine film industry has histor ...
. On November 11, 1961, the partido's first school was founded: School Nº4 ''Domingo Faustino Sarmiento''. On March 22, 1965, the ''Santa María Reina'' church is founded, and from 1996 it belongs to the San Isidro obispado.
Avenida Mitre consolidated as the main commercial center of the neighborhood after American jeans
Jeans are a type of pants or trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of trousers, called "blue jeans", with copper-riveted pockets which were invented by Jacob W. Davis in 1871 and paten ...
manufacturers Lee and Wranger opened their shops there in early 1970s. Levi's
Levi Strauss & Co. () is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's () brand of denim jeans. It was founded in May 1853 when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California, to o ...
arrived in 1976. They commercialised second-choice clothing with good sells.[
In 1981 Mitre Avenue was repaired, thus modernizing the commercial centre.][Munro , Historia de Vicente López (blogsite) ] In 1984, Governor of Buenos Aires Alejandro Armendáriz
Alejandro Armendáriz (5 June 1923 – 7 August 2005) was an Argentine physician and politician.
Life and times
Early career
Armendáriz was born in Saladillo, a pampas town in the Province of Buenos Aires, in 1923. His family relocated t ...
promulgated a decree that named the city "Capital de la Indumentaria" to promote selling clothing
Clothing (also known as clothes, apparel, and attire) are items worn on the body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin sheets of materials and natural ...
in the district. During the 1970s and 1980s the commercial centre was a great success and one of the main driver of the economy of Vicente López Partido. The boom of the textile industry
The textile industry is primarily concerned with the design, production and distribution of yarn, cloth and clothing. The raw material may be natural, or synthetic using products of the chemical industry.
Industry process
Cotton manufacturi ...
brought a lot of people to Munro in search of jeans
Jeans are a type of pants or trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of trousers, called "blue jeans", with copper-riveted pockets which were invented by Jacob W. Davis in 1871 and paten ...
(the most popular of its products) but also t-shirts, and sweaters, which could be buy at affordable prices, even a 50% less than other stores.[La Avenida Mitre, el paraíso comercial de los '70 y los '80]
''Clarín'', 4 May 2012
In 1995 the ''Centro Cultural Munro'' (Munro Cultural Center) was inaugurated with a capacity for 870 people.
Population
The city area is approximately 5.8 km² and is populated by 35,844 (), being the third most populous city in the partido, with 13.1% of its total population. In 1991 there were 36,188 citizens, which implies a 1% drop compared to 2001.
Education
The area once had a German school, Deutsche Schule Munro.[Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672]
Archive
. Bundestag
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(West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 17/51.
Notable people
*Julio Bocca
Julio Adrián Lojo Bocca (born March 6, 1967) is an Argentine ballet dancer. Bocca spent twenty years as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. From 2010 to 2018 he served as artistic director of the National Ballet of Uruguay, administ ...
* Jorge Sotomayor (born 1988), Argentine footballer
Sports
The most important activity is football
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, with several social clubs hosting the sport apart from other activities. Club Atlético Colegiales
Club Atlético Colegiales, usually just Atlético Colegiales or simply Colegiales, is a football club from the Cuatro Mojones neighborhood in Lambaré, Paraguay, founded in 1977 by the Zacarías family. The team currently plays in the second d ...
was established in 1908 as "Club Atlético Libertarios Unidos" in the city of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
. The club affiliated to the Argentine Football Association
The Argentine Football Association ( es, Asociación del Fútbol Argentino, ; AFA) is the governing body of football in Argentina based in Buenos Aires. It organises the main divisions of Argentine league system (from Primera División to Torn ...
and has played in the competitions organised by the body since then. Colegiales moved to their new location on Antonio Malaver and Gervasio Posadas streets (then Munro, currently Florida Oeste) in 1948, where the institution has been located since then.
Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
and field hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...
are represented by the Olivos Rugby Club
Olivos Rugby Club is an Argentine rugby union and field hockey club located in the Munro district of Vicente López Partido. The rugby team is member of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires (URBA), having won its only URBA championship in 1940. Ol ...
, established in 1927. The rugby teams compete in tournaments organised by the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires
The Buenos Aires Rugby Union ( es, "Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires"), usually referred as URBA, is the Argentine governing body that organises and controls the rugby union in the Buenos Aires Province (including the main district, Buenos Aires a ...
(URBA).
Gallery
Entrada tunel bajonivel munro.jpg, Underpass on Baigorria street
Munro-bn.jpg, Train station
Centro Cultural Munro.jpg, Cultural Center
Estatua libertad y galeria fabricantes.jpg, Replica of Statue of Liberty
Puma munro playa nafta.jpg, Puma petrol station
Coto.jpg, Coto supermarket
Lumiton museo cine munro.jpg, Lumiton Museum of Cinema
References
External links
*
Munro City website
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Vicente López Partido
Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Cities in Argentina