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65 unusual facts about Buenos Aires


Alicia Candiani

She studied at National University of Córdoba, Argentina (M.F.A. 1976, Architect 1978): University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (Art Criticism 1989-91) and Iowa State University, United States (Digital Imaging Techniques, 1991–92).

Andrés Calamaro

In 2005 he released El Regreso (The Return), a compilation of the live recordings from his appearance in the Luna Park Stadium earlier that year.

Augusto Vargas Alzamora

He studied at the Jesuit Philosophical Faculty in San Miguel, Argentina and Madrid.

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña (also known as Diagonal Norte), is a main artery in the San Nicolás quarter of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Avenida Santa Fe

It continues westward along the Retiro area, passing by the Brunetta ("Olivetti") Building (built in 1964, one the first in Buenos Aires designed in the International Style) and through the massive Avenida 9 de Julio, which was opened through the Retiro area in the early 1970s.

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.

Bernard Sauer

Born into a family of six in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sauer studied acting there before making his theatrical debut in the 1945 play, "Yoshke, the Musician" directed by Joseph Buloff.

Binglin Stable

They frequently played in Argentina, the polo capital of the world, and as such the brothers and Crosby decided to establish "Caballeriza Binglin Stock Farm" near Buenos Aires where they purchased a number of locally bred horses and shipped them back to the United States.

Buenos Aires National Academy of Medicine

The academy's headquarters is a Neoclassical building situated on a corner lot in the upscale Recoleta area 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.

Carlos Torres Vila

He died in the noon of 16 July 2010 in the Sarmiento Clinic in the city of San Miguel, Buenos Aires after a long illness.

Cities for Life Day

Participating cities in 2009 include more than 60 capitals worldwide, and over 1,200 cities and towns around the world, such as Rome, Brussels, Madrid, Ottawa, Mexico City, Berlin, Barcelona, Florence, Venice, Buenos Aires, Austin, Dallas, Antwerp, Vienna, Naples, Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Reggio Emilia, Bogotá, Santiago de Chile.

Club Atlético Fénix

In 1963 the team promoted by the first time, and built its current headquarters in the Concepción Arenal street of Chacarita neighborhood.

Club Atlético Ferrocarril General San Martín

Club Atlético Ferrocarril General San Martín, or simply San Martín, is an Argentine sports club based in the Sáenz Peña neighborhood, Greater Buenos Aires.

Colegio Nacional de San Isidro

It is located at 165 Acassuso (the address in Spanish would show the street number last), in San Isidro City, Buenos Aires Province, near the San Isidro Cathedral.

Conesa

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

Defensores de Belgrano

The stadium was at the Plaza Alberti in the suburb of Belgrano, Buenos Aires.

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

Delia Parodi

The experience earned her a promotion as a local ombudsman in the Las Cañitas section of Palermo (today an upscale ward in Buenos Aires).

Eduardo Catalano

Eduardo Catalano also created the environmental kinetic sculpture Floralis Genérica in Palermo, Buenos Aires.

El Nuevo Gasómetro

The Estadio Pedro Bidegain, nicknamed el Nuevo Gasómetro (the New Gasometer), is the home stadium of San Lorenzo football club in the Flores neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Emilie Schindler

Schindler lived with her pets for many years in her small house in San Vicente, 40 kilometres south-west of Buenos Aires.

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.

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.

Franck Comba

He earned his first cap for the France national team on June 13, 1998 against the Argentina at Buenos Aires.

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.

Hohan Sōken

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

Jean Barthe

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

Jesus Cuellar

Jesús Marcelo Andrés Cuellar (born December 28, 1986 in José C. Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Argentine professional boxer and the current interim WBA Featherweight Champion.

Jorge Giannoni

Shortly thereafter the University of Buenos Aires was pressured by the government of Isabel Perón to close the Institute, and he had to leave the country for Peru, and then Cuba, where he resided until his return to Argentina in 1983.

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In Buenos Aires, he created the Instituto de Cine del Tercer Mundo (Third World Film Institute), which was then merged with Raymundo Gleyzer’s Cine de la Base (Cinema of the People).

Juan Carlos Maccarone

Juan Carlos Maccarone (born 19 October 1940 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine Roman Catholic retired bishop.

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.

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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).

Kåre Jostein Simonsen

Later, he has repeatedly been in Buenos Aires where he received further training for Néstor Marconi.

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 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.

Magda Frank

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

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.

Mario José Serra

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1975 till 2002.

Mercedes Marcó del Pont

Mercedes Marcó del Pont was born and raised in the northside of Buenos Aires.

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).

Oscar Bony

Bony's work was the subject of a retrospective, "Oscar Bony: el Mago," at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, from November 2007 to February 2008.

Pablo Bronstein

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

Philip Wight

He played in the following two Americas Championship tournaments; the 2002 event in Buenos Aires and the 2004 event in Bermuda.

Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola

D'Oriola, riding Pomone B, was the gold medal World Champion in show jumping at Buenos Aires in 1966.

Puente Alsina railway station

As part of the privatization of the Argentine railways in 1990’s the private company Metropolitano was granted a concession to operate the service, part of the Linea Belgrano Sur, as far as General Belgrano, from 1 May 1994.

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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.

Ricardo Primitivo González

Ricardo Primitivo González (born May 12, 1925) is an Argentine former basketball player of Club Atlético Palermo, one of the oldest clubs in Palermo, who captained the Argentine national team that won the 1950 FIBA World Championship.

Rufino de Elizalde

Dr. Rufino de Elizalde (August 1822, Buenos Aires – March 1887) was an Argentine politician who was Foreign Affairs Minister of Argentina, from October 15, 1862, to September 6, 1867.

Samo Sound Boy

Enrolling in college at Sarah Lawrence College, in 2006 at age 20 he took a year off from school and traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina where he experienced his first taste of DJing and dance music at the club Fugees 99 in the city's San Telmo neighborhood, which he describes as "really, really dark, really cheap, and they played basically reggaeton, dancehall, and West Coast hip-hop classics, like Death Row's greatest hits."

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.

Tomás Juan Carlos Solari

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

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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.

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.


2010 Fórmula Truck season

Other victories were taken by Giaffone's team-mate Valmir Benavides, who triumphed at Caruaru, Geraldo Piquet won the series' only race outside of Brazil in Buenos Aires, while Iveco took a solitary victory with Beto Monteiro winning at Velopark.

Amelia Goes to the Ball

Amelia al ballo is still periodically performed, with productions in the 2008/2009 seasons in Vichy, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo, as well as a 2010 double bill with Menotti's The Telephone in Tours, using the 2006 co-production by Lausanne Opera and the Opéra Comique.

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.

Buenos Aires–Rosario–Córdoba high-speed railway

Today, the service is disrupted by serious deficiencies and delays and takes over seven hours, more than the service provided in the '50s by "El Marplatense" with speeds of up to 90 + mph (150 km/h) making the run in 3 hrs 45 min in then cutting edge Budd-built formations.

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.

Charles Douglas Moffatt

Charles Douglas Moffatt (London, 5 July 1870 - Buenos Aires, 1 March 1953) was an English football player, considered one of the pioneers of the sport in Argentina.

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.

Ciro y los Persas

The most important performances were in 2010 and made a CD, Orfeo Superdomo in Cordoba, in the theater Angel Bustelo, Mendoza, in San Juan, and Luna Park Stadium of Buenos Aires.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Enrique Tirabocchi

In a February 1920 attempt to swim from Colonia, Uruguay across the River Plate to Buenos Aires, Tirabocchi set a record by being in the water for 24 hours and 2 minutes, breaking the record set by Thomas William Burgess in his 1911 Channel swim of 22 hours and 35 minutes.

Ezequiel Jurado

He had 28 caps for Argentina, scoring 6 tries, 30 points on aggregate, from the 53-7 loss to Australia, at 30 April 1995, in Brisbane, in a friendly game, to the 26-36 loss to Wales, at 5 June 1999, in Buenos Aires, in another friendly game.

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 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.

Francisco Urondo

Finally Paco stopped the car...and said, "I took the pill (cyanide) and I already feel sick." Ahualli remembers that Lucía said, "But papi, why did you do that?" Ahualli escaped between the bullets and arrived wounded to Buenos Aires, days later.

Fundacion Manantiales

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

Giacomo Grosso

From 1901 when he made his first journey to South America he began to receive commissions from Argentina and in 1910, for the International Centenary Exhibition in Buenos Aires, he executed a large commemorative canvas of the Battle of Maipú, an episode in the War of Independence.

Grupo Clarín

Grupo Clarín was listed in the Buenos Aires and London Stock Exchanges in 2007, upon which a 20% share in the group was made available to stockholders (leaving 9% for Goldman Sachs, and 71% for its private shareholders).

Hybrid Tango

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

Javier Saviola

Nicknamed El Conejo (The Rabbit), Buenos Aires-born Saviola made his debut for Club Atlético River Plate at the age of 16, and went on to be a prolific goalscorer for the club.

Jorge D'Alessandro

Born in Buenos Aires, D'Alessandro played six years in his country with San Lorenzo de Almagro, being part of the squads that won four national championships.

Juan Manuel Abal Medina, Jr.

He entered public service in 2000 as Director of the National Public Administration Institute under President Fernando de la Rúa, and in 2001 was appointed Political and Legislative Director for Buenos Aires Mayor Aníbal Ibarra, later serving Ibarra as Director of Strategic Planning from 2003 to 2005.

La Violencia

These included the director of Crítica magazine Jorge Zalamea fleeing to Buenos Aires, Luis Vidales to Chile, Antonio Garcia to La Paz, and Gerardo Molina to Paris.

Lautaro Baeza

Lautaro Manuel Baeza (born February 17, 1990 in Merlo (Buenos Aires), Argentina) is an Argentine naturalized Chilean footballer who playing for Rangers of the Primera División in Chile.

Live at River Plate

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

Loncopán

Of nomadic character, the tschen travelled through the south area of the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa and Cordoba.

Manuel Tato

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

Marcelino Nicolas Lopez

Marcelino Nicolas Lopez (born May 6, 1986 in Arribenos, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a boxer in the Lightweight division.

Mauricio Solaún

Solaún has been a visiting professor at the Universidad de los Andes and the Universidad Pontificia Javeriana in Bogotá, the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, and the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Chile.

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.

Ramón Verea

Ramón Silvestre Verea Aguiar y García (Curantes, 1833 – Buenos Aires, 1899) was a Spanish journalist, engineer and writer, known as the inventor of a calculator with an internal multiplication table.

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.

Taksim Square massacre

This mode of operation recalls the June 20, 1973 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, when the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (aka Triple A), founded by José López Rega (a P2 member), opened up fire on the left-wing Peronists.

Uruguayan people

The famed tango singer Carlos Gardel was born in Toulouse, France, then raised in Buenos Aires, but as an adult he obtained legal papers saying he was born in Tacuarembó, probably to avoid French military authorities.

Woodbine Parish

In 1839 he published Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, an account of the geology of the Buenos Aires and Río de la Plata region and his findings of mammalian fossils, presenting Megatherium bones which were assembled and exhibited in the Natural History Museum, London.