Vélez Sársfield is a '' barrio'' or district in the western part of

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, located in the area defined by the streets Segurola Avenue, Juan Agustín García, Lope de Vega Avenue, Juan B. Justo Ave., Corro Ave., Medina, Juan Bautista Alberdi Ave. and Mariano Acosta.

Description and history

The barrio was named after Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, the 19th century author of the

Civil Code of Argentina The Civil Code of Argentina was the legal code in force between 1871 and 2015, which formed the foundation of the system of civil law in Argentina. It was written by Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, as the culmination of a series of attempts to cod ...

, and a translator of Latin poems into

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. It is a typical low-rise housing area, that like many others was mainly populated during the urban explosion at the beginning of the 20th century. It is currently a middle-class neighborhood, among whose largely low-rise housing there are some small factories and warehouses. The first division

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club CA Vélez Sársfield is in fact based in the nearby barrio of

Liniers Liniers is a barrio (neighborhood) of Buenos Aires on the edge of the city, centered on Rivadavia Avenue. It is also an important train station and bus hub, connecting western Gran Buenos Aires with the Buenos Aires Metro. The neighborhood deve ...

, in the

José Amalfitani Stadium The José Amalfitani Stadium is a stadium located in the Liniers neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, near Liniers railway station. The venue is the home of the Argentine Primera División club Vélez Sarsfield and is also known as ''El Fort ...

, and not in Vélez Sársfield itself. The

Maldonado Stream The Maldonado Stream (''Arroyo Maldonado'') is an underground storm sewer in the city Buenos Aires, Argentina, that runs below Juan B. Justo Avenue. Originally a stream draining into the Río de la Plata, its length goes through 10 of the 47 ba ...

( es, Arroyo Maldonado) runs through Vélez Sársfield, which in the early 20th century was culverted. The main avenue in the ''barrio'', named after Juan B. Justo, runs over the stream. The Maldonado was at one point a natural boundary for the city limits of Buenos Aires, before the towns of Flores and Belgrano emerged (which are now also barrios).

External links

Barrio Velez Sarsfield
Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires {{BuenosAires-geo-stub