Cañuelas is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative centre for Cañuelas Partido. It is located near the outskirts of the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation. It is claimed that

dulce de leche ''Dulce de leche'' (; pt, doce de leite), also known as caramelized milk, milk candy or milk jam in English, is a confection from Latin America prepared by slowly heating sugar and milk over a period of several hours. The resulting substance, w ...

was invented by the dairy ''Estancia La Caledonia'' near Cañuelas on 24 June 1829 by chance.Info Cañuelas
The area was also home to the first dairy factory in Argentina at La Martona.

Notable people

* Branko de Tellería (born 1991), Argentine footballer * Felipa Larrea (1810–1910), last surviving

Afro-Argentine Afro-Argentines are people in Argentina of primarily Sub-Saharan African descent. The Afro-Argentine population is the result of people being brought over during the transatlantic slave trade during the centuries of Spanish domination in the reg ...

slave (died in Cañuelas)

References

External links

InfoCañuelas - News and tourist information on Cañuelas
Populated places in Buenos Aires Province {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub