Vicente López is a
partido in the
Buenos Aires metropolitan area,
Buenos Aires Province
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,
Argentina
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. It is one of the country´s most affluent municipalities.
Vicente López is located 20 kilometers north of downtown
Buenos Aires
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and 80 kilometers north of the city of
La Plata
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, the provincial capital. The partido incorporates several smaller neighborhoods, including
Olivos,
Florida
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and
La Lucila with a total estimated population of 269,420. Its 33 km² makes Vicente López the smallest
partido in the
Buenos Aires Province
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and the second smallest municipality in Argentina.
Vicente López is renowned for its expansive residential neighborhoods, the
Argentine presidential residence, named Quinta de Olivos, and its coastal park along the
Río de la Plata. In October 2023, Vicente López was named a UNESCO
City of Film and joined the
UNESCO
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Creative Cities Network.
Toponymy
The partido's name honors
Vicente López y Planes, an Argentine writer and politician, author of the lyrics of the Argentine National Anthem, governor of Buenos Aires province (after the fall of
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 ...
) and then President of Argentina succeeding
Bernardino Rivadavia.
López y Planes also composed ''El Triunfo Argentino'', an ode to the resistance during the English invasion of Buenos Aires.
At the beginning it was going to be called "Olivos", currently the name of the most important district of Vicente López.
Location
The partido is bordered by the city of
Buenos Aires
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to the South,
General San Martín Partido to the West,
San Isidro Partido at the North and
Río de la Plata to the East.
Districts
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Carapachay
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Florida
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Florida Oeste
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La Lucila
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Munro
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Olivos
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Vicente López
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Villa Adelina
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Villa Martelli
Demography
Vicente López is the 8th most populated partido of
Greater Buenos Aires. Most of the inhabitants are descendants of Italian and Spanish immigrants. There are also descendants of German, Polish, Ukrainian, Armenian and Croatian amongst other nationalities.
The partido has 280,929 inhabitants according to the 2010 Census.
Gallery
File:Maipu Avenue in Vicente Lopez.jpg, Maipú Avenue.
File:Santa Teresita del Nino Jesus church.jpg, Santa Teresita catholic church in Florida
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.
File:Sunsetpaseodelacostavtelopez.jpg, View of the area from the Río de la Plata.
Notable residents
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Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele (; 16 March 19117 February 1979) was a Nazi German (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, often dubbed the "Angel of Death" (). He performed Nazi hum ...
, a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II
References
External links
Municipalidad de Vicente LópezMunicipalidad de Vicente López at Google Cultural Institute
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Populated places established in 1905
Partidos of Buenos Aires Province
1905 establishments in Argentina