Monte Chingolo is a town in

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, Argentina. Located in Lanús Partido in the south of the

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metropolitan area.

History

Monte Chingolo was founded on 23 November 1815 by

Juan Manuel de Rosas Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rozas y López de Osornio (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws", was an Argentine politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confedera ...

. The settlement was the site of ''Las Higueritas'', the first recorded abattoir in Argentina. The town grew following the opening of a Ferrocarril Provincial de Buenos Aires station in 1927, and it became the site of numerous abattoirs and other industrial establishments. The Battalion 601 Arsenal at Monte Chingolo was besieged on 23 December 1975 by the ERP, a Trotskyite guerrilla group. The attack left over 100 dead, and the ERP's defeat largely subdued the organization. The city later suffered from the effects of a failed plan during the 1976-83 dictatorship to expand the General Paz Freeway from the Villa Riachuelo ward in

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to the city of

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; never completed, the demolitions resulting from the project left an extensive swath along the city of empty lots which, in many cases, were not adequately reurbanized.

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Populated places in Buenos Aires Province Populated places established in 1815 Lanús Partido Cities in Argentina 1815 establishments in the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub