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 is located in Greater Buenos Aires
Grand Bourg
Grand Bourg
Coordinates: 34°29′S 58°43′W / 34.483°S 58.717°W / -34.483; -58.717
Kintra Argentinae
Province Buenos Aires
PartidoMalvinas Argentinas
Elevation
18 m (59 ft)
Population
 (2001 census [INDEC])
 • Total85,189
CPA Base
B 1615
Area code(s)+54 02320

Toponymy eedit

Grand 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 eedit

The 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

  1. "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: |publisher= (help)

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