Saavedra is a
barrio
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or neighbourhood of
Buenos Aires
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,
Argentina
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. It is located in the Northern end of the city, close to
Nuñez and
Villa Urquiza
Villa Urquiza is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located between the barrios of Villa Pueyrredón, Belgrano, Villa Ortúzar, Coghlan, Saavedra and Agronomía. Its limits are the streets and avenues Constituyentes, C ...
. Its northern border is
Avenida General Paz. Among the main features of the neighbourhood is the Parque Saavedra ( en, Saavedra Park), which has large picnic areas and sports facilities. Many inhabitants of Buenos Aires pass through Saavedra en route to their weekends in the country.
The neighbourhood's most famous son is
tango singer
Roberto Goyeneche. Also, it was the cradle of
Platense football
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club. The main characters of
Adolfo Bioy Casares's novel ''El Sueño de los Héroes'' ( en, Dream of Heroes) live in Saavedra.
The interchange between the
Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway (french: (Auto)route panaméricaine/transaméricaine; pt, Rodovia/Auto-estrada Pan-americana; es, Autopista/Carretera/Ruta Panamericana) is a network of roads stretching across the Americas and measuring about in to ...
and
Avenida General Paz is at Saavedra's northern end. Points south were the site of extensive demolition during the late 1970s tenure of military-appointed Mayor
Osvaldo Cacciatore, who planned a network of new expressways including one through Saavedra, one of the city's most residential ''barrios''. Never built, the demolished stretch was converted into Avenida Roberto Goyeneche. Saavedra is also home to an important
Philips
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manufacturing facility, as well as the
Dot Baires Shopping Center, the city's largest.
''La Nación'': Dot Buenos Aires
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Gallery
File:Parque Saavedra3.jpg, Saavedra Park
File:MHBACS004.JPG, Historical Museum of Buenos Aires ''Cornelio Saavedra''
File:Parroquia sagrada familia saavedra.jpg, Holy Family Parish Church
File:Dot Baires Shopping.jpg, Dot Baires Mall
File:Puente estacion saavedra.jpg, Train station ''Luis María Saavedra''
File:Coto_de_Saavedra.jpg, Coto Supermarket
File:Intecons01.JPG, Intecons tower
File:Plaza Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna2.jpg, Vicuña Makenna Park
File:Barrio Saavedra 4.jpg, Panamericana Plaza
File:Archivo General de la Nación Argentina 1890 aprox Buenos Aires, entrada al Parque Saavedra.jpg, Saavedra Park (c. 1890)
External links
Saavedra community newspaper
history of Saavedra
Historical dates
References
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Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires