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33-495: The provincial subdivision has a population of about 20,000 inhabitants in an area of 63 km (24 sq mi), and its capital city is Pinamar , which is around 349 km (217 mi) from Buenos Aires . The Pinamar Partido was created on July 1, 1978, through Decree/Law 9.024/78 promulgated by the Provincial Government. Until then, the city of Pinamar had been part of General Madariaga Partido . In

66-637: A passenger service to Pinamar. After some studies, works began and in August 1949, the first Constitución – Pinamar service was opened to public. The Pinamar station was placed where today stays a park, on Av. Constitución e/ Apolo y Av. Intemedanos. The first services were run by Ganz railcars that had been also used by the Argentine State Railway to run services to Bariloche . However, subsecquent services to Pinamar would be run by Drewry vehicles. The Constitución – Pinamar service

99-544: A barrier to the sea. Bunge, who had studied not only architecture and engineering but also urban planning in Nicaragua, towards the end of the 1930s thought of fixing the dunes, property of Valeria Guerrero, reforesting and urbanizing them. He studied the characteristics and possibilities of the area, taking into account that a railway branch already existed. He shaped his project with a company called "Pinamar S.A.", together with Guerrero and Franco Moschella. They were joined by

132-431: A group of people, including men from the countryside, industrialists and professionals motivated by the desire to overcome a real challenge. In 1940, studies and preliminary tests began, as well as the essential basic constructions to provide infrastructure for the project. One year later, the fixation and afforestation of the dunes began on a large scale with unprecedented methods for Argentina. By 1942 urbanization began;

165-626: A pasta factory and pastry shop. During these years the Belgians return to Europe possibly because of the World War I and never returned. After several failed afforestation attempts, the sand buried several constructions, including the boulevard, evidencing the failure of the project to fix the dunes. Ostende (among with other towns) would be annexed into Pinamar Partido in 1983. To the south of Ostende, another of Felicitas's heirs, her nephew Don Héctor Manuel Guerrero, decided in 1918 to start fixing

198-621: A young woman of only 16 years old. In 1907, the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway opened the Juancho station built on lands previously owned by José Guerrero. That station was terminus of a branch from General Guido in the Constitución – Mar del Plata line. The touristic activity would then increase when visitors came to Pinamar via Juancho station (onboarded by horse-drawn carriages which took them to

231-399: Is a planned city with a very strict building code, and it has been artificially turned from wild sand dunes into a forest (mostly of pine trees, which explains the "pina" in the town's name). City planning, as defined by founding architect Jorge Bunge and maintained by elected authorities ever since, translates into a city mostly made up of residential houses with open gardens. Pine planting

264-433: Is one of several small seaside communities that line the coast. Since Pinamar's main attraction is the ocean, it is a fairly quiet town during the winter months. Tourism fuels the economy during the summer. Several other coastal towns are right beside Pinamar. If you move south, you will have the towns of Ostende, Valeria del Mar, and finally Cariló. Two facts set Pinamar apart from most of the other Argentine beach cities: it

297-559: The Route 11 was paved The old path remained as a graved road, and entrances to Pinamar, Cariló, and Valeria del Mar were added. In 1983, its name was changed to "Partido de Pinamar", being formed by the towns of Pinamar , Ostende, Valeria del Mar, and Cariló. In 1993, the town of Mar de Ostende was officially incorporated to Pinamar Partido. The economy of Pinamar Partido is dominated by the summer tourist season (December–February), which sees hundreds of thousands of Porteños make their way to

330-736: The Atlantic coast of Buenos Aires Province. Pinamar Partido benefits from 25 km (16 mi) of beaches. Pinamar Partido has miles of unspoiled beaches and hundreds of acres of woodland and sand dunes. The partido has three golf courses and a wide selection of bars and restaurants. Pinamar Pinamar is an Argentine coastal resort city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in Buenos Aires Province . It has about 45,000 inhabitants (2020). Located less than 400 km (249 mi) south of Buenos Aires , it

363-465: The Bella Vista, La Postrera and Laguna de Juancho ranches. After the murder of Felicitas, victim of a femicide committed by Enrique Ocampo, these lands are inherited by her parents: Carlos José Guerrero and Felicitas González de Cueto. When the marriage dies, their children inherit, who would be Felicitas' brothers; and among these, Carlos and Manuel Guerrero would correspond to the lands that reached

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396-588: The East”. To go to Ostende, passengers went by train to Juancho station (via Constitución –General Madariaga), then being transported by horse-drawn carriages to "Colonia Tokio" station where they took a narrow-gauge railway ( Decauville ) to Ostende. It was a 3 km-length railroad that reached the beach. On economic grounds, the coming of the train helped the zone to increase its production. Apart from cattle, producers commercialised apples and firewood, for which some small branches were built. One of those branches reached

429-835: The Electric Plant and a small Shopping Center were built and inaugurated. The plantations continued to continue fixing their dunes. Fractions of land were donated for the construction of the School, the First Aid Room, the Civic Center, the Police Detachment, the Weather Station and the Church. A factory for roof tiles, tiles and other elements for construction was built. The provincial road (route 11)

462-583: The Governor of Buenos Aires Province , Eduardo Duhalde , expressed his intention to reactivate the Gral. Guido – Gral. Madariaga service (those tracks had not been removed) also stating that the government was studying to extend the line to Pinamar. Services to General Madariaga were reactivated in May 1994, being operated by state-owned Ferrobaires , a company established by the province to operate passenger trains in

495-740: The House of Spiritual Retreats of the Carmelite Monks, the house of one of the first families to spend the summer in Ostende, called Villa Adela, and also a chapel whose owner was Mr. Domingo Repetto, which years later it would disappear due to abandonment and strong sand storms. To promote tourism on the zone, an hotel ("Hotel Termas", then "Hotel Ostende") was opened. It was inaugurated in December 1913 and had 80 rooms plus rooms for games, lecture, and fencing , restaurants, winter gardens, and even

528-547: The XIX century, the region where the Pinamar Partido stays nowadays was a desertic area plenty of dunes facing the sea. Those dunes constituted the fields called "Los Montes Grandes de Juancho", which belonged to Don Martín de Alzaga, an older man and landowner, who had married Felicitas Guerrero in 1862, a young woman of only 16 years old. When Martín de Álzaga died in 1870, Felicitas inherited these lands that were part of

561-406: The city, distant about 2 km from the station. The bus terminal is located on Avenida Ingeniero Budge and Del Bosque. On July 2, 2019, the world's first webcam observation of the total solar eclipse below the horizon took place from this city, which was at the extension of the 2019 total solar eclipse . Pinamar railway station (1949) Too Many Requests If you report this error to

594-405: The first constructions. In the last years of the 30's, architect Jorge Bunge, a visionary man, associated with Valeria Guerrero, owner of the land and Felicitas's niece, both formed a partnership and the architect Jorge Bunge created an urban design as particular as innovative, tracing the streets in the form of arabesques and curves to respect the dunes and undulations of the landscape. This is how

627-559: The first golf course, the School, the first aid room, the Church of Our Lady of Peace, the Water and Light Cooperative, the public telephone, the post office and the original pier were inaugurated. When the entire railway network in Argentina was nationalised in Argentina in 1948, managers of Ferrocarriles Argentinos thought about using the old freight branches operated by the BAGSR for

660-594: The fixation of the dunes begins, the opening of streets and the first constructions such as La Hostería, the Hotel Pinamar, where the first tourists came to stay, the water tank at the Mirador de Galatea and Parque Del Tridente and the first private houses. On February 14, 1943, Pinamar was inaugurated as a spa and shortly after the Urbanization Master Plan presented by the architect Jorge Bunge

693-468: The inclemency of the winds, the materials for the constructions had to be sent from Buenos Aires, being the Cabo Corrientes steamship one of the means used for transportation at that time. Finally, on April 6, 1913, the founding ceremony of the new city was celebrated and an important advertising campaign was produced to promote the sale of the lots. Then the houses of Fernando Robette were built,

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726-554: The point where the intersection of RP 11 and RP 74 is placed today, very close to the entrance to Pinamar . Nevertheless, most of those branches would be lifted in the 1940s. When Robette was already settled he began the work to concretize his projects. Some of the constructions were a dock, and the "Hotel Termas"; That same year the construction of the Rambla Sur also began, which was intended to be an extensive coastal promenade. These works were made very hard, since in addition to

759-409: The respective towns). In the last years of the 30's, architect Jorge Bunge, a visionary man, associated with Valeria Guerrero, owner of the land and Felicitas's niece, both formed a partnership and Bunge created an urban design as particular as innovative, tracing the streets in the form of arabesques and curves to respect the dunes and undulations of the landscape. These lands were dunes that formed

792-484: The road network was extended, houses were built for the company's hierarchical personnel and specific studies on the natural resources and climatic characteristics of the place were completed, essential data for the realization of the Master Plan that would project the integral conformation of the landscape required. On February 14, 1943, Pinamar was inaugurated as a spa and opened to the public. The "Playas Hotel",

825-409: The sand dunes of his estate called Charles to later install a nursery and plant species from different regions of the world. Over time these plantations, which were carried out with carts pulled by 8 horses, were transformed into a forest as rich in species as the one we know today by the name of "Cariló", a Mapuche word that means 'Green Medano'. In 1960 the subdivision of that forest began and then with

858-533: The sea and that finally Héctor Manuel and Valeria Guerrero would turn these moors into the most exclusive tourist destinations on the Argentine Atlantic coast. The first city established in the region was "Ostende" founded by Belgian Fernando Robette and Italian Agustín Poli. They had bought the land from Don Manuel with the aim of designing a sophisticated seaside resort with the same model as that city of Belgian origin whose name, Ostend , means “End of

891-466: The sea called "El Atlántico" is enabled. Finally in July 1978 the "Urban Municipality of Pinamar" was created through Decree n° 9.024/78 promulgated by the Provincial Government. Therefore Pinamar became independent from General Madariaga Partido . Apart from Pinamar, creation of La Costa , Villa Gesell , and Monte Hermoso municipalities were included in the decret.. Access to region were improved when

924-533: The territory after Carlos Menem 's administration closed all the services in March 1993. Between 1994 and 1996 new tracks were added from Gral. Madariaga and a new station named " Divisadero de Pinamar ". The new station was built 1,5 km from the Route 11 (west direction) and more distant than the original Pinamar station closed in 1967 to avoid a level crossing on a highly trafficked route. Divisadero de Pinamar

957-484: Was approved. In August 1949 the train arrived in Pinamar , and the road between Pinamar and Madariaga was created. In the mid-1940s, Valeria Guerrero decided to create her own tourist village on land that belonged to her, then the town of Valeria del Mar was founded, dunes were fixed, the area was forested with many acacias and in 1960 the first subdivision is carried out, while in 1964 the first apartment building facing

990-492: Was completed. In 1944, the Master Plan was presented to the Province of Buenos Aires, which was approved. The differential road network was extended with the paving of the main streets of Pinamar. Electrical networks and running water were laid, and simultaneously the first areas were definitively urbanized. In 1945, the first lots were sold and construction began on a core of permanent homes and summer homes. In that same year,

1023-558: Was inaugurated on December 7, 1996. Pinamar was one of the few cities of the Argentine Atlantic Coast to have a railway service when the Pinamar station was opened in 1949. It operated for 18 years until on December 12, 1967, the service was definitely closed. Nowadays, visitors can arrive by train from Constitución station to Divisadero de Pinamar station (opened in 1996 and operated by state-owned Trenes Argentinos ) and making an onward connection by bus to

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1056-674: Was originally started in Cariló —a town nearby Villa Gesell and copied in Pinamar, although the city plan for Villa Gesell was not as carefully laid out or kept through the years. In the 19th century, the region where the Pinamar Partido stays nowadays was a desertic area plenty of dunes facing the sea. Those dunes constituted the fields called "Los Montes Grandes de Juancho", which belonged to Don Martín de Alzaga, an older man and landowner, who had married Felicitas Guerrero in 1862,

1089-528: Was run for 18 years until December 12, 1967, when the service was definitely closed. Tracks were lifted in the 1970s. Bunge died in 1961. One year later, the Telephone Cooperativa was established. On July 1, 1978, the " Pinamar Partido was established through Provincial Law 9,024. The Partido (now independent of General Madariaga Partido ) integrated the cities of Pinamar, Ostende, Valeria del Mar, and Cariló, among other small towns. In 1991

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