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63 unusual facts about Buenos Aires


Andrea Frigerio

Andrea Luisa Mitchelstein, better known as Andrea Frigerio (born August 8, 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress, television presenter and former model.

Avenida Coronel Díaz

Coronel Díaz Avenue is an avenue that marks the limit between the Palermo and Recoleta neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and extends northbound, parallel Pueyrredón Avenue.

Avenida Santa Fe

The artery is essential to the imaginary axis of Barrio Norte in Buenos Aires, comprising the areas influenced by the route of the avenue through Retiro, Recoleta and Palermo neighborhoods, it is considered one of the main shopping and strolling areas of the city, its many boutiques range from elegant to edgy, which has led it to be dubbed the 'Avenue of Fashion'.

Barracas Central

Club Atlético Barracas Central is an Argentine football club from the district of Barracas, Buenos Aires.

Basketball at the 1951 Pan American Games

The Men's Basketball Tournament at the 1951 Pan American Games was held in the Luna Park Arena from February 28 to March 8, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Benita Martínez Pastoriza

Benita Martínez Pastoriza de Sarmiento (1819 in San Juan, Argentina – 1890 in Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Blake Mycoskie

While vacationing in Argentina in 2006, Blake spent a day volunteering with a local non-profit organization delivering used shoes to children in the villages outside of Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires-class destroyer

The Buenos Aires class destroyers were a group of destroyers built for the Argentine Navy in Britain in the 1930s.

Buenos Aires, Trujillo

This locality is subdivided into three zones: Buenos Aires South, extending to the border with the Moche district, Buenos Aires Central limiting with Vista Alegre by east and the sector called Buenos Aires North extending up to the limit with Huanchaco.

Carmen Lamas

Carmen Lamas (Spain, 1900 - Buenos Aires, 1990) was a Spanish-born tango singer, and the first Spanish actress who made ​​her career in Argentina.

Cementerio Británico

It is in the district of Chacarita in the northern part of Buenos Aires, adjacent to La Chacarita Cemetery.

Colegio Nacional de San Isidro

The Colegio Nacional de San Isidro (CNSI) is a public institution of secondary education located in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Conesa

General Conesa, Buenos Aires, town in Tordillo, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Costas Evangelatos

He has participated in many group exhibitions and international artistic meetings in Barcelona, Warsaw, Seratz, Gothenburg, Amiens, Rome, Moscow, Santiago, Buenos Aires, New York, Los Angeles, etc.

Defensores de Belgrano

Club Atlético Defensores de Belgrano (usually known as "Defensores de Belgrano") is an Argentine sports club from Núñez, Buenos Aires.

Eduardo Sguiglia

He lives in Buenos Aires since his return from exile, in the early eighties.

Ernesto Duchini

Duchini was born in the Barrio Norte district of Buenos Aires on November 10, 1910, at a young age his family moved to Chacarita where he joined the youth team of Chacarita Juniors in 1922.

Excursionistas

Club Atlético Excursionistas (familiarly called Excursio by fans) is an Argentine football club based in the Belgrano district of Buenos Aires.

Ferrocarril General Roca

In the metropolitan sector of the City of Buenos Aires the Línea Roca operates from the city-centre terminus of Estación Constitución south to Alejandro Korn, Cañuelas, and La Plata, and west to Haedo.

Ferrocarril General Urquiza

In the metropolitan sector of the City of Buenos Aires there is an electrified commuter branch that operates from the Federico Lacroze terminus in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Chacarita, to the General Lemos station in suburban San Miguel.

Figonero

In October 1968, the three-year-old Figonero won the Gran Premio San Isidro at the Hipódromo de San Isidro in San Isidro, Buenos Aires.

FMA I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I

The restored prototype is currently displayed at the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina of the Argentine Air Force ("Fuerza Aérea Argentina"), initially at Buenos Aires Aeroparque Airport and later at Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Francisco Di Franco

Francisco Di Franco (born 28 January 1995 in San Miguel) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Boca Juniors in the Argentine Primera División.

Francisco Maschio

His stables ( named Stud Yeruá ) was localized at Olleros Street, Palermo, Buenos Aires, near the actual Olleros Station.

Francisco Trimboli

He was born in Buenos Aires in 1933 to Francisco Trimboli and Josefina Pungitore Trimboli.

Fraulein Spy

Posing as an investigative journalist for a West German tabloid newspaper, Carter tracks Judas to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is living among the expatriate German community under the alias Hugo Bronson.

Guillermo Kuitca

Guillermo Kuitca is an Argentinean artist who was born in Buenos Aires in 1961, where he continues to work and live.

Hesperidina

This alcoholic drink was invented in 1864 by an American immigrant Melville Sewell Bagley in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Hohan Sōken

He also taught karate to Japanese and Okinawan ex-pats in Buenos Aires.

Islam in Argentina

The project cost around US$30 million, and includes a mosque, library, two schools, a park, is located in the middle-class district of Palermo, Buenos Aires.

Jean Barthe

He earned his first cap with the French national team on 29 July 1954 against Argentina at Buenos Aires.

John Frederick Bateman

He carried out projects abroad as well, including designing and constructing a drainage and water supply system for Buenos Aires, and water supply schemes for Naples, Constantinople and Colombo.

Juan Eduardo Lescano

Juan Eduardo Lescano (born 29 October 1992 in Rauch) is an Argentine football striker who currently playing for Russian side FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk.

Juan Nepomuceno Terrero y Escalada

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1898 till 1900, when he became bishop of La Plata.

On April 21, 1898, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Dercos.

Julio César Pereyra

Julio César Pereyra (born 1951, Gualeguaychú) is the mayor of Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires, Argentina (since 2003).

Kelsey Bone

Bone was a member of the USA Women's U18 team which won the gold medal at the FIBA Americas Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Latécoère 25

The only surviving example of a Latécoère 25 is preserved in the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica in Morón, Argentina.

Luca Prodan

After some time at the farm in the Traslasierra valley, he settled in Hurlingham (a suburb of Buenos Aires), where he founded and led Sumo and the Hurlingham Reggae Band.

Luis Juan Tomé

Born in Buenos Aires, Tomé was ordained to the priesthood on April 16, 1938, serving in the archdiocese of Buenos Aires.

Magda Frank

In 1950, she arrived in Buenos Aires to visit her brother, her only living family member.

Frank resettled in Argentina in 1995 and built the Magda Frank House Museum in the Saavedra barrio at Vedia 3546.

Manuel Tato

On November 12, 1948, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Aulon.

Marcelo Bonevardi

Bonevardi's work has been collected by many leading North American and Latin American museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo; and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

Nelda Ramos

She is a teacher of Visual arts with guidance in ceramics graduated at EMBA School of Fine Arts in Quilmes (Buenos Aires Province) and at IUNA (University of Buenos Aires).

Nelda Ramos (born October 4, 1977 - Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a multidisciplinary artist with a vast experience, being one of the better considered South American young artists, with a major tour in Visual Arts and especially in Performance art.

Nicolás Urquiza

He studied Industrial Design at the University of Buenos Aires for two years before finding his vocation at the private art school of Sara García Uriburu under the guidance of Carlos Bisolino.

Oscar Cortínez

Hernán Oscar Cortínez (born August 4, 1973 in Morón) is a male marathon runner from Argentina, who is a two-time winner of the Buenos Aires Marathon in his native country (2003 and 2004).

Pablo Bronstein

Pablo Bronstein (born 1977, Buenos Aires) is an artist based in London.

Pablo Saucedo

Pablo Andrés Saucedo (born March 6, 1982 in Moreno, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born Ecuadorian football central defender who plays for Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy.

Puente Alsina railway station

Puente Alsina railway station, (Estación Puente Alsina in Spanish) is an Argentine railway station in the Greater Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Valentín Alsina in the Lanús partido of Buenos Aires Province.

Puente Valentín Alsina

The Puente Alsina, is a neo colonial bridge inaugurated on 1938, that joins the neighbourhood of Nueva Pompeya in the Argentine capital (Buenos Aires) with the city of Valentín Alsina (District of Lanús, Gran Buenos Aires), crossing over the Riachuelo.

Sevel Argentina

As part of the rationalization effort, production of passenger vehicles was to take place in Fiat's large El Palomar plant, while commercials, tractors, vans, and heavy vehicles were to be built in Fiat's factory in Ferreyra, Córdoba province.

Sophia Ellis

It has competed at the Sitges & Austin film festivals and has gone on to screen in Rome, Little Rock, Buenos Aires, Málaga, Horror Hound and Sacramento Film Festivals.

Stuart Franklin

He worked on about twenty stories for National Geographic between 1991 and 2009, subjects including Inca conqueror Francisco Pizarro and the hydro-struggle in Quebec and places such as Buenos Aires and Malaysia.

Tamir Bloom

In May 2000, he won the Western Hemisphere Zonal qualification tournament in Buenos Aires, making the team in his final attempt to qualify for the Olympics.

Tomás Juan Carlos Solari

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1943 till 1948, when he became archbishop of La Plata.

On August 23, 1943, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Aulon.

Toño Salazar

During World War II he went to Buenos Aires where he was employed as an illustrator and caricaturist at the socialist weekly magazine Argentina Libre.

Trident Music

Trident Music is an independent record label based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Vicente Barbieri

Vicente Barbieri (August 31, 1903 – September 10, 1956) was an Argentine poet born in Alberti.

Voseo

This was the situation when Castilian was brought to the Río de la Plata area (around Buenos Aires and Montevideo) and to Chile.

Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout

It was organized in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, while the end-game bits were shot with anchor Shah Rukh Khan at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai.


Alberto Morán

Alberto Morán (born Remo Andrea Domenico Recagno, Strevi, Alessandria, Italy, 15 March 1922 - Buenos Aires, 16 August 1997) was an Argentine tango musician.

Alfredo Zecca

Zecca received his episcopal consecration on the following August 11 from Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, the later pope Francis, then archbishop of Buenos Aires.

Baltasar Brum

In the autumn of 1917, American warships sailed to the Argentine capital Buenos Aires and a delegation issued threats to the country's President Hipólito Yrigoyen, in relation to the country's neutrality, which the United States insisted should be more clearly focused as being pro-American.

Carrasco International Airport

6 June 2012: an Air Class Líneas Aéreas Fairchild SA227AC Metro III, registered CX-LAS, performing a freight flight on behalf of DHL from Montevideo to Buenos Aires disappeared south of Isla de Flores.

Cestoball

Cestoball is a sport created in Argentina, during the conference in Buenos Aires and Santa Rosa in 1986, with the purpose of making the old Argentine sport called 'pelota al cesto' (ball to basket) more dynamic and homogenising its rules with korfball and netball.

Chuck Merriman

In 1995 Merriman was appointed Head Coach for the United States National Karate Team for the Olympic Sanctioned XII Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Claro Open Colombia

The Claro Open Colombia is the fifth tournament affiliated with the ATP held in Latin America, after the tournaments in Viña del Mar (Chile), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Acapulco (México) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Cobblestone

Many cities in Latin America, such as Buenos Aires, Argentina; Zacatecas and Guanajuato, in Mexico; Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and Montevideo, Uruguay, richly influenced by many European architectural features, are well known for their many cobblestone streets, which are still operational and in good condition.

Conchita Supervía

She made her stage debut in 1910 at the young age of 15 at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina in Stiattesi's Blanca de Beaulieu.

Corbeta Uruguay base

This ship is now a floating museum, permanently berthed in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires.

Corrientes

Nevertheless, its position between Asunción in present Paraguay, and Buenos Aires made it an important middle point, specially because of its 55-metre-high lands that prevent flooding when the water level rises.

Cristian Ivanobski

Cristian Ivanobski (born February 11, 1990 in Tigre (Buenos Aires), Argentina) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Santiago Morning of the Primera B Chilena.

Crypto AG

The company has about 230 employees, has offices in Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Buenos Aires, Kuala Lumpur, Muscat, Selsdon and Steinhausen, and does business throughout the world.

Darwin's Rhea

The specific name was bestowed in 1834 by Darwin's contemporary and rival Alcide d'Orbigny who first described the bird to Europeans, from a specimen from the lower Río Negro south of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso

Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso (Concordia, Entre Ríos, January 17 1917 - Buenos Aires, July 13, 2000) was an Argentine researcher who explored the possibility of colonization of the Americas by several antique ethnic groups.

El gran teatro

The whole action of the novel takes place during a performance of Wagner's Parsifal at Buenos Aires' famous opera house, the Teatro Colón.

Ethnography of Argentina

Buenos Aires itself is said to have over 100,000 practicing Jews, making it one of the largest Jewish urban centers in the world (see also History of the Jews in Argentina).

Fabricio Poci

Fabricio Leonel Poci (born 10 April 1986 in Buenos Aires), is an Argentinian footballer with Italian citizenship who plays for A.O.Chania in the Greek Football League, as a midfielder.

Ferrocarril General San Martín

In the metropolitan sector of the City of Buenos Aires there is a diesel commuter branch that operates from the Retiro railway terminus in the city-centre northwest to Palomar, Hurlingham and Pilar.

Fundacion Manantiales

These services have had successful outcomes in the most developed countries and are installed in Buenos Aires and Montevideo (Uruguay).

Guillermo Leaden

On May 28, 1975 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Theudalis and Auxiliary Bishop of the Buenos Aires and was ordained August 8, 1975.

Hybrid Tango

Hybrid Tango is a side project by the members of Buenos Aires-based electronic neo-tango band Tanghetto.

John Esplen

He then became a partner in his father's firm and helped to establish branches in London, Cardiff, Buenos Aires, New York City and Montevideo.

Leonardo Sandri

Sandri was born in Buenos Aires to Antonio Enrico Sandri and Nella Righi, who had emigrated to Argentina from Ala, a village in Trentino in Italy.

Live at River Plate

The DVD includes footage from three concerts performed in December 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at Club Atlético River Plate.

Lola Berthet

Berthet began acting at a young age, in her hometown of Buenos Aires, eventually becoming a well known telenovela actress in her home country as an adult.

Luis Alberto Fernández Alara

On Januari 24, 2009, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Carpi.

Luis Frangella

Luis Frangella (born Buenos Aires, 1944 - died New York City, 1990) was a figurative post-modern painter and sculptor associated with the expressionist painting of the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1980s.

Manuel Tato

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1948 till 1961, when he became bishop of Santiago del Estero.

María Eugenia Suárez

Suárez was born to Guillermo Suárez and Marcela Riveiro in Buenos Aires; she had a Japanese grandmother, Marta Mitsumori born in Kochi Prefecture.

María Eugenia Vidal

Affiliated with the Republican Proposal party, she was appointed Minister of Social Development of the City of Buenos Aires, and in 2011 was elected Deputy Mayor.

Maria Lugones

Her father’s parents had been sharecroppers in a province of Buenos Aires, Los Toldos.

May Maxwell

Mary "May" Maxwell (née Bolles; born 14 January 1870 in Englewood, New Jersey; died 1 March 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an early American member of the Bahá'í Faith.

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

Nicolás Urquiza

Since 2007 he has teamed with other designers to lead several renovation projects, mainly in private residences of the Northeastern United States and Buenos Aires historic district.

Pasaje Del Terror

Pasaje Del Terror is an interactive walk-through horror attraction with branches in thirty different cities in Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, Salou, Santander, etc. as well as some of the major cities of the world, such as Rome, Lisbon, Blackpool, Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Cancun, San Salvador and Tokyo.

Paso del Rey

In fact, Charles Darwin could have crossed the ford in his journey from Buenos Aires to Luján on September 27 1833 (the only alternative crossing was a wooden bridge known as Puente de Márquez, 4.5 km north).

Pedro Melo de Portugal

Pedro de Melo de Portugal y Vilhena (29 April 1733 in Badajoz – 15 April 1797 in Buenos Aires) was a Spanish soldier and politician, who served as viceroy in the Rio de la Plata.

Raúl Uranga – Carlos Sylvestre Begnis Subfluvial Tunnel

Until the opening of the Rosario-Victoria Bridge, this was the only road link between two commercially important and populous regions of Argentina, and the only one between the two provinces (more to the south, Entre Ríos is connected to the province of Buenos Aires by the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge).

Raul Viver

The Ecuadorian reached the quarter-finals at Kitzbuhel in 1984 and Buenos Aires the following year.

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

In addition he gave guest lectures and composition seminars in Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Darmstadt, Bilthoven (the Netherlands) and Buenos Aires, and from 1973 held a professorship at the Musikhochschule in Vienna.

Sergio Vento

After having served in various positions in Den Haag, Buenos Aires and Ankara, he had been diplomatic councillor to the following Italian Prime Ministers: Giuliano Amato, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Silvio Berlusconi, Lamberto Dini.

Torcuato di Tella Institute

Following its establishment, the di Tella art collection was transferred to the foundation, and Jorge Romero Brest hosted a free show at the National Museum of Fine Arts, which the leading local art critic directed.

Victor Zâmbrea

His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.