Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña, better known as Diagonal Norte ( Spanish for "North Diagonal", the counterpart to Diagonal Sur), is an important avenue in the San Nicolás neighborhood of

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. It is oriented south-east/north-west, diagonally bisecting the city blocks (''manzanas'') which give the city centre a checkerboard plan. It is named after President

Roque Sáenz Peña Roque José Antonio del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Sáenz-Peña (19 March 1851 – 9 August 1914) was an Argentine politician and lawyer who served as President of Argentina from 12 October 1910 to his death in office on 9 August 1914. He was th ...

, who held power from 1910 to 1914 and passed the

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which established universal suffrage, secret ballot and an electoral register.

Connections

The north-west corner of

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is the start of Avenida Presidente Roque Sáenz Peña (i.e. the corner of Avenida Rivadavia and San Martín street), just to the north of the city hall. It runs directly to the northwest and diagonally crosses the following streets: Bartolomé Mitre, Juan Domingo Perón and Sarmiento, and calle

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, Maipú, Esmeralda, Suipacha and the Carabelas passage, before arriving at Plaza de la República, location of the

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, where

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meets

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. Still in a straight diagonal line, it crosses this intersection and continues to the next crossroads, the junction of Lavalle and Libertad in Plaza Lavalle, opposite the Courts of Justice.

Underground

Below the entire length of the avenue runs line of the

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, which has two stations along the Diagonal (stations ''

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'' and '' 9 de julio'') and a third station ('' Tribunales'') near its western end. Line of the

also has one station: ''

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''.

Points of interest

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