Tornquist Partido is a partido in the southwest of Buenos Aires Province in

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

and is named after

Ernesto Tornquist Ernesto Carlos Tornquist (31 December 1842 – 17 June 1908) was an Argentinian entrepreneur and businessman, considered to be one of the most important entrepreneurs in Argentina at the end of the 19th century. The diversified business empire he ...

, founder of Tornquist, the partido's main city. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 12,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Tornquist, which is from

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Economy

The economy of Tornquist is dominated by farming, the main agricultural products are:

wheat Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus ''Triticum'' ; the most widely grown is common wheat (''T. aestivum''). The archaeologi ...

barley Barley (''Hordeum vulgare''), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains, particularly in Eurasia as early as 10,000 years ago. Globally 70% of barley p ...

oats The oat (''Avena sativa''), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural, unlike other cereals and pseudocereals). While oats are suitable for human co ...

maize Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. The ...

, sunflower,

soybean The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (''Glycine max'') is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses. Traditional unfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, from which tofu a ...

s and sorghum. There is also large scale production of beef and dairy products, and smaller scale production of pork, chicken, sheep and honey.

Settlements

* Berraondo * Chasicó * Choique * Estomba * García del Río * Nueva Roma * Pelicura * Saldungaray * Tornquist * Sierra de La Ventana * Villa Serrana La Gruta * Villa Ventana

External links

* 1910 establishments in Argentina Partidos of Buenos Aires Province Populated places established in 1910 Volga German diaspora {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub