Quilmes Partido
Quilmes is a partido o Buenos Aires Province, Argentinae, athin the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation.
Quilmes Partido de Quilmes | |
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 Coat airms | |
 location o Quilmes Partido in Gran Buenos Aires | |
| Coordinates: 34°43′S 58°16′W / 34.717°S 58.267°W | |
| Kintra | Argentinae |
| Established | 14 August 1812 |
| Foondit bi | First Triunvirate's decree |
| Seat | Quilmes |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Martiniano Molina, Republican Proposal-Cambiemos |
| Area | |
| • Total | 125 km2 (48 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 580,829[1] |
| Demonym(s) | quilmense "quilmeño/a" |
| Postal Code | B1878 |
| IFAM | |
| Aurie Code | 011 |
| Patron saunt | Exaltation o the Holy Cross (september 14th) |
| Website | http://www.quilmes.gov.ar |
It haes a aurie o 125 square kilometres, an a population o 580,829 (2010 census [INDEC]),[1] makkin it the third maist populous partido in the Gran Buenos Aires. Namit efter the Quilmes Tribe, its caipital is the ceety o Quilmes.
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Beer eedit
Quilmes gives its name tae ane o Argentinae's favourite beers, Cerveza Quilmes, which was oreeginally brewed in the aurie. The company produce aboot 1.5 billion litres o beer a year, maist o which is consumit in Argentinae.
Sport eedit
Quilmes is hame tae twa fitbaa clubs, Quilmes Atlético Club o the Primera Division and Club Atlético Argentino de Quilmes o the regionalisit 5t Diveesion. The ceety staunds oot in mony ither sports an aw, includin field hockey, basketbaw an rugby, amang ithers.
Christianity eedit
In 1666 wis established the Cathedral o Quilmes (Catedral de Quilmes in Spaingie). In 1976 a papal bull creatit the Diócesis de Quilmes. The first meenister wis Padre Obispo Jorge Novak, famous for his defense o Human Rights during the Naitional Reorganization Process.
The first Rivers o Life Kirk ("Ríos de Vida" in Spaingie) wis established in Quilmes in 1967. It is a group o ower 80 evangelical kirks aroond the warld. Rivers o Life, Quilmes haes the lairgest congregation o aw the Rivers o Life churches around the world.
Ither notable evangelical kirks include the Iglesia del Encuentro an the Iglesia del Puente.
Destricts (localidades) eedit
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References eedit
- ↑ a b "2010 Census provisional results". Archived frae the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
Freemit airtins eedit
- Municipalidad de Quilmes – offeecial steid (in Spaingie)