Nicolás Descalzi is a rural area in
Coronel Dorrego Partido
Coronel Dorrego Partido is a partido on the southern coast of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.
The provincial subdivision has a population of about 16,500 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Coronel Dorrego, which is around ...
, in the
Province of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially the Buenos Aires Province, is the largest and most populous Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of the province an ...
,
Argentina
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.
Location
It is located 46
km northeast of the city of
Coronel Dorrego
Coronel Dorrego is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative centre for Coronel Dorrego Partido.
Provincial Festival of the Plains
''Fiesta Provincial de las Llanuras'' has been held in Coronel Dorrego since the 1960s, ...
through a rural road.
History and population
The opening of the
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
of the
Juan E. Barra - Coronel Dorrego Branch of the
Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway
The Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway (BAGS) () was one of the ''Big Four'' Indian gauge, broad gauge, , British-owned companies that built and operated railway networks in Argentina. The company was founded by Edward Lumb in 1862 and the f ...
in 1929 led to the formation of the town. The subsequent closure of the railway services in 1961 caused the population decline.
In the Argentine censuses of 2001 and 2010, it was counted as a dispersed rural population.
Namesake
The area gets its name from Nicolás Descalzi, an Italian-Argentine explorer.
External links
Coord. geográficas e imágenes satelitales de ''Nicolás Descalzi''
References
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Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
1929 establishments in Argentina
Former populated places in Argentina