Villa Adelina is a city in
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is divided between the counties (''
partidos'') of
San Isidro and
Vicente López and forms part of the
urban conurbation
An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, ...
of
Greater Buenos Aires. The town is named after
Adelina Munro Drysdale
Princess Adelina de Colonna, Duchess of Rignano (born Adelina Munro Drysdale; 19 September 1896 – 14 December 1942) was a Scottish Argentine socialite. In her honour, her grandfather Duncan MacKay Munro named the Villa Adelina train station of ...
, whose grandfather was a British railway official in Argentina.
Education
The area once had a German school, Deutsche Schule Villa Adelina.
Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672
(). Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Common ...
(West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 16/51.
References
External links
La Página de Villa Adelina - Ciudad Villa Adelina
Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Populated places established in 1909
San Isidro Partido
Vicente López Partido
1909 establishments in Argentina
Cities in Argentina
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