La Matanza Partido
La Matanza ('The Slauchter' in Spaingie) is a partido (destrict) locatit in the Greater Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires Province in Argentinae.
La Matanza Partido de La Matanza | |
|---|---|
 location o La Matanza in Gran Buenos Aires | |
| Coordinates: 34°43′S 58°38′W / 34.717°S 58.633°W | |
| Kintra | Argentinae |
| Established | 1784 |
| Seat | San Justo |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Fernando Espinoza, PJ |
| Area | |
| • Total | 325 km2 (125 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 1,772,130[1] |
| Demonym(s) | matanzero |
| Postal Code | B1625 |
| IFAM | |
| Aurie Code | 011 or 02202 |
| Website | http://www.lamatanza.gov.ar |
The provincial subdiveesion haes a population o 1,772,130 inhabitants (at the 2010 Census)[1] in a aurie o 325.71 km2 (125.76 sq mi), an its caipital ceety is San Justo, which is locatit aroond 16 km (10 mi) frae the autonomous ceety o Buenos Aires.
History
eeditThe name o the Partido comes frae a confrontation that Diego Mendoza the brither o conquistador Pedro de Mendoza haed wi the Querandí tribe in 1536, whaur he an 22 sodgers that wur wi him dee'd. In his name, this aurie an the river are namit La Matanza (The Slauchter), sometimes uisin the plural form.
The Partido wis namit Pago till 1730, then Partido de Matanza y Pozos (Partido o Slauchter an Wells): it wis then a lairgely unpopulatit landwart aurie, an wis led bi a twa-mayor seestem. In 1784, the Partido wis dividit in twa, Las Matanzas an Cañada de Morón (Morón's Gully). In 1856, the caipital ceety San Justo wis foondit.
Population
eeditAccordin tae the Argentine census bureau, the INDEC, the population wis 1,121,298 in 1991, 1,255,288 in 2001 an 1,772,130 in 2010. It is the maist populatit Partido in the Province o Buenos Aires an the biggest municipality in the kintra.
Destricts
eeditReferences
eeditFreemit airtins
eedit- (in Spaingie) Municipality o La Matanza Archived 2006-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Spaingie) Naitional Varsity o La Matanza Archived 2020-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Spaingie) Sitio de la ciudad de San Justo Archived 2007-11-21 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Spaingie) Local Newspaper