Liniers is a

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(neighborhood) of

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on the edge of the city, centered on

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. It is also an important train station and bus hub, connecting western

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with the Buenos Aires Metro. The neighborhood developed around the Liniers railway station following its inaugural in 1872. The neighborhood is home to

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, whose stadium, the José Amalfitani Stadium, has been established there in 1951. Liners is also the site of the Church of San Cayetano, consecrated in 1900 and elevated to a

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in 1913. The Church of San Cayetano hosts thousands of faithful who gather each

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(August 7) to pray for employment or to give thanks for their livelihood. The ward is named after Santiago de Liniers, a colonial administrator who resisted the British Invasions of the Río de la Plata.

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