Tornquist Partido is a partido in the southwest of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina and is named after Ernesto Tornquist , founder of Tornquist, the partido's main city.
5-540: The provincial subdivision has a population of about 12,000 inhabitants in an area of 4,184 km (1,615 sq mi), and its capital city is Tornquist , which is 634 km (394 mi) from Buenos Aires . The economy of Tornquist is dominated by farming, the main agricultural products are: wheat , barley , oats , maize , sunflower , soybeans and sorghum . There is also large scale production of beef and dairy products, and smaller scale production of pork, chicken, sheep and honey. This article about
10-585: A place in Buenos Aires Province , Argentina is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tornquist, Buenos Aires Tornquist is a town in Buenos Aires Province , Argentina. It is the head town of the Tornquist Partido . The settlement was founded on 17 April 1883 by Ernesto Tornquist and was settled by Germans and Volga Germans . Historically, the economy was based on livestock and agricultural production and
15-478: The Barraca Funke. The city's most important municipal, educational, civic, and commercial activities center around Ernesto Tornquist Plaza. The plaza fully occupies four city blocks and contains a man-made pond on the north end along 9 de Julio Avenue. The Iglesia Santa Rosa de Lima, a neo-Gothic chapel, is situated in the middle of the plaza boasting a singular tower about five storeys tall. The layout of
20-516: The historic centre, the design of the main square, the layout of its church, and the composition of the landscape, are reminiscent of German towns and architecture, a nod to the origins of the town's first settlers. The original plans for the city were prepared by Pablo Mayer, an engineer, whose work was commissioned by the city's founder himself. The city hall was designed and built by the Italian-Argentine architect Francisco Salamone in
25-547: Was later supplemented by a growing tourism sector related to the scenic Ventana System , a minor mountain range of 195 km (121 mi) NW to SE that dominates the flat countryside. The development of the railway favored the city's future and prominent community centers were established along ethnic ties, such as the headquarters of the Germanic Society, the Hogar Funke (a summer home for elderly Germans), and
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