Description and Guides for the areas to the South of Greater Buenos Aires

Description and Guides for the areas to the South of Greater Buenos Aires


ZONA SUR

Southern Greater Buenos Aires (Zona Sur, South Zone) is the area known as the traditional industrial area of Buenos Aires. This is where the "figorificos" have installed themselves since the end of hte 19th century...

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Adrogue

Adrogué was one of the areas that the people fled to during the colera and yellow fever epidemics that came to the city of Buenos Aires. Because of...


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Alejandro Korn

Alejandro Korn is the new name of a town formerly known as San Vicente that arose around a trainstation with the same name during the 1800. Since the...


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Almirante Brown

In the year 1862 the merchant Mr. Esteban Adrogué bought the land that now form the locality of Tomas Paredes with the intention of founding a new town...


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Avellaneda

In 1791 the bridge crossing the Riachuelo River was inaugurated and the surrounding areas, including Avellaneda, began to get population. The head town...


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Banfield

The city of Banfield was named after the former Manager and Technician of the English railway who dies in 1872 who was named Edward Banfield. There is...


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Berazategui

The district was created in 1960, by demand of the population of the Quilmes district. The neighbors wanted autonomy and demanded solutions for several...


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Berisso

Berisso has a natural port on the shores of the river Santiago. The Port used to be used by smugglers, and because of this in 1736 a military outpost...


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Bosques

The project to create a new area, separated from Quilmes, was first presented in the year 1890. After several month of heated arguments the project was...


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Burzaco

In Burzaco there is a square called Manuel Belgrano. In that square, on March 25th 1938, a Fundamental Stone was placed over which the monument to the...


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Canuelas

Cañuelas is currently growing at a steady rate, highly benefiting from its proximity to the city of Buenos Aires. The rural style of Cañuelas attracts...


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Claypole

The lands that make up the locality of Claypole used to be property of Franciscan munks that had a farm to provide food for the Convent of Buenos Aires...


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Ensenada

La Ensenada de Barragán is an area where many important historical events related to the institutional, social, and cultural life, both national and...


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Esteban Echeverria

Originally Esteban Echeverria was populated by tribe of the Querandie indians, but with the arrival of the European they were displaced to the South...


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Ezeiza

The train changed Ezeiza from mainly agricultural area, to residential with a large number weekend houses. This tendency has remained until today, and...


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Florencio Varela

In 1833, the neighbors of the district now known as Florencio Valera started a petition to change the areas its name, and the Executive Power decided...


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Gerli

Until the arrival of the Spaniards, the only inhabitants in Gerli and most of the North-East of the province of Buenos Aires, where Uruguayan, Pampas...


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Glew

lew, San Vicente, and Alejandro Korn are all typical weekend destinations for families going for a drive, looking for some open sky...


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Guernica

The terrain that make Guernica have a historical connection with the church because it was a jurisdiction that a priest was in charge of. On November 29th...


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La Plata

La Plata is the capital of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The city was founded by Dardo Rocha on November 19th, 1882, with the...


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Lanus

On the lands that today form the Lanus District, tribes of Pampas and Uruguayan origin used to live. Lanus was formed with real estate properties belonging...


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Llavallol

Between 1603 and 1605 Francisco Garcia Romero bought lands from Pedro López de Tarifa, and creates the Country House "El Cabezuelo," and was then the...


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Lomas de Zamora

Before to the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires, the lands was inhabited by "Tupi Guarani" tribes. After the second foundation...


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Longchamps

Longchamps has played a great part in the history of aviation in Argentina. From this are, Longchamps, the first official Argentinean flight took place on...


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Presidente Perón

The head city of the Presidente Perón District is the city of Guernica that has historical bonds to what was once territory part of the...


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Quilmes

The main city of the area of Quilmes in the South of Buenos Aires, was declared as such on August 1716. The name Quilmes comes from the original population of...


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Remedios de Escalada

The locality Remedios de Escalada was named after the workshops of Remedios de Escalada, that were used when, towards the end of the 19th...


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San Vicente

Before founding San Vicente in 1580, Juan de Garay founded the city "Santisima Trinidad de Buenos Aires" (Holy Trinity of Buenos Aires, establishing its limits and...


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Sarandi

By the year 1920, Sarandi was already being recognized as a locality of the most developed area in all Greater Buenos Aires. Sarandi had excellent industrial...


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Temperley

George Temperley was the man that the areas was named after. He participated in the creation of the Lomas de Zamora District, and he also made the creation of...


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Valentin Alsina

Because it belongs to Lanus, Valentin Alsina is almost entirely integrated by lands of the la Matanza River's basin, and is situated along...


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Villa Dominico

Villa Dominico, together with Sarandí, Wilde, Crucecita, Dock Sud, Gerli, and Piñeiro, belong to the Avellaneda District. Villa DOminico is located in Southern...


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Wilde

The city of Wilde was named in honor of Doctor Eduardo Wilde, but does not have an official foundation act. Wilde used to be part of Quilmes until February, 1865...


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