Villa Ortúzar is one of the neighbourhoods of
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
. Its limits are La Pampa St., Forest Ave., Elcano Ave.,
Ferrocarril General Urquiza
The General Urquiza Railway (FCGU) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril General Urquiza), named after the Argentine general and politician Justo José de Urquiza, is a standard gauge railway of Argentina which runs approximately northwards from Buenos Aire ...
railroads, Del Campo Ave., Combatientes de Malvinas Ave. and Triunvirato Ave.
The "Villa" received its name as after Esq. Santiago Francisco de Ortúzar y Mendiola, a basque businessman who bought the "area" the 26th of April of 1862 paying for it 265,000 pesos.
Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires
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