Monte Chingolo is a toun in Buenos Aires Province, Argentinae. Locatit in Lanús Partido in the sooth o the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan aurie.

Monte Chingolo
Monte Chingolo is located in Greater Buenos Aires
Monte Chingolo
Monte Chingolo
Coordinates: 34°44′S 58°21′W / 34.733°S 58.350°W / -34.733; -58.350
Kintra Argentinae
Province Buenos Aires
PartidoLanús
Foondit23 November 1815
Elevation
9 m (30 ft)
Population
 (2001 census [INDEC])
 • Total85,060
CPA Base
B 1825
Area code(s)+54 11

History eedit

Monte Chingolo wis foondit on 23 November 1815 bi Juan Manuel de Rosas. The dounset wis the steid o Las Higueritas, the first recordit abbatoir in Argentinae. The toun grew follaein the openin o a Ferrocarril Provincial de Buenos Aires station in 1927, an it became the steid o numerous abbatoirs an ither industrial establishments.[1]

The Battalion 601 Arsenal at Monte Chingolo wis besiegit on 23 Dizember 1975, bi the ERP, a Trotskyite terrorist group. The attack left ower 100 deid, an the ERP's defeat lairgely subdued the organisation.[2]

The ceety later suffered frae the effects o a failed plan durin the 1976-83 dictatorship tae expand the General Paz Freewey frae the Villa Riachuelo waird in Buenos Aires tae the ceety o Avellaneda; niver completit, the demolitions resultin frae the project left an extensive swath alang the ceety o empty lots which, in mony cases, wur no adequately reurbanisit.

References eedit

  1. "Historia de Lanús". Municio de Lanús. Archived frae the original on 12 August 2013. Retrieved 18 Januar 2021.
  2. Lewis, Paul (2002). Guerrillas and Generals. Greenwood Publishing.

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