Balcarce Partido is a
partido of
Buenos Aires Province
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in
Argentina
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.
The provincial subdivision has a population of 42,040 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is
Balcarce, which is around from
Buenos Aires
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.
Name
The partido is named after
Antonio González de Balcarce
Antonio González de Balcarce (June 24, 1774 – August 15, 1819) was an Argentine military commander in the early 19th century.
González de Balcarce was born in Buenos Aires. He joined the armed forces as a cadet in 1788. In the battle for Mo ...
(1774-1819), an Argentine military commander, governor of Buenos Aires and
Supreme Director (president) of Argentina in 1816.
Economy
The economy of Balcarce Partido is dominated by agriculture. Other economic activities include
mineral extraction
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...
and
tourism
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.
Farming is dominated by the production of
arable crops and
potato
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...
es.
The impact of modern farming techniques and mining has damaged the natural habitats of indigenous species such as
emu
The emu () (''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is the second-tallest living bird after its ratite relative the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus ''Dromaius''. The emu' ...
,
jackrabbit
Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus ''Lepus''. They are herbivores, and live solitarily or in pairs. They nest in slight depressions called forms, and their young are able to fend for themselves shortly after birth. The gen ...
,
viscacha
Viscacha or vizcacha (, ) are rodents of two genera ('' Lagidium'' and ''Lagostomus'') in the family Chinchillidae. They are native to South America and convergently resemble rabbits.
The five extant species of viscacha are:
*The plains visc ...
and
armadillo
Armadillos (meaning "little armored ones" in Spanish) are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata. The Chlamyphoridae and Dasypodidae are the only surviving families in the order, which is part of the superorder Xenarthra, along wi ...
.
Balcarce is home to Argentina's National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) and the faculty of agrarian sciences, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata.
Attractions
*
Autódromo Juan Manuel Fangio
*
Juan Manuel Fangio Museum
Settlements
*
Balcarce
*
San Agustín
*
Los Pinos
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*
Napaleofú
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Bosch
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Ramos Otero
*
Villa Laguna La Brava.
External links
Juan Manuel Fangio museum(English content)
Municipality websiteNational Institute of Agricultural Technology websiteFaculty of agrarian sciences website''El Semanal'' newspaper
1865 establishments in Argentina
Partidos of Buenos Aires Province
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