San José is a ''localidad'' (district) located in the south 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 ...
in
Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...
, it forms part of the
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 ...
conurbation.
The neighborhood, named after
Saint Joseph
Joseph (; el, Ἰωσήφ, translit=Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus. The Gospels also name some brothers of ...
, traces its origins to 1948, when a region of semi-rural terrain between
Temperley
Temperley is a district in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, located in the south of Lomas de Zamora Partido.
History
In 1854 the industrial and textile merchant George Temperley (born in 1823 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) bought from the M ...
and
Quilmes
Quilmes () is a city on the coast of the Río de la Plata, Rio de la Plata, in the , on the south east of the Greater Buenos Aires. The city was founded in 1666 and it is the seat of the Quilmes Partido, eponymous county. With a population of 230 ...
was developed.
External links
History of San José
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Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Lomas de Zamora Partido