Grand Bourg
Grand Bourg is a toun in Malvinas Argentinas Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentinae. It forms pairt o the Greater Buenos Aires agglomeration.
Grand Bourg | |
|---|---|
  Grand Bourg Location in Greater Buenos Aires | |
| Coordinates: 34°29′S 58°43′W / 34.483°S 58.717°W | |
| Kintra |  Argentinae |
| Province |  Buenos Aires |
| Partido | Malvinas Argentinas |
| Elevation | 18 m (59 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 85,189 |
| CPA Base | B 1615 |
| Area code(s) | +54 02320 |
Toponymy
eeditGrand Bourg is namit efter the French commune o Grand-Bourg, whaur the leader o the Argentine War o Unthirldom, General José de San Martín, livit in exile.
History
eeditThe location belangit tae the 19t century estancias o Juan Andrés de Cabo an Pastor Parra. Orcharts an dairy ferms thus predominatit till, in 1948, the first lots wur sauld bi the G.C. Grosso real estate company alang the Belgrano North Railwey Line. A stop wis opened at the steid in 1951, follaeed bi a station in 1956. Kent initially as Primero de Mayo, the station an toun wur renamit Grand Bourg in 1959.
The toun became a significant manufacturin centre in subsequent decades. The ceety cemetery wis the steid o ane o the lairgest mass graves foond in the eftermath o Argentinae's Dirty War o the late 1970s; ower three hunder cadavers thus buriet wur locatit at the cemetery in 1984.[1]
Grand Bourg wis declared a ceety bi the Provincial Legislatur on 28 November 1985.
References
eedit- ↑ "Exhuman cadáveres en el Cementerio de Grand Bourg". Clarín. 13 Januar 1984. Archived frae the original on 30 Mey 2013. Retrieved 7 Januar 2014. Italic or bold markup not allowed in:
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Freemit airtins
eedit- Municipal information: Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Meenistry o Interior, Argentinae. (in Spaingie)
- (in Spaingie) Municipal wabsteid map Archived 2009-01-31 at the Wayback Machine