Vicente López is a partido in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area , Buenos Aires Province , Argentina . It is one of the country´s most affluent municipalities.
5-655: Villa Martelli is a town in the Partido of Vicente Lopez , in the Greater Buenos Aires metro area. The first recorded settlement in the area occurred on May 6, 1910, and the town was officially recognized by the Provincial Legislature on July 27, 1964. The Villa Martelli Army Barracks were the site of a military mutiny in 1988 by a right-wing Carapintadas faction led by Col. Mohamed Alí Seineldín . The barracks were later closed, and in 2011,
10-642: A portion of the extensive lot became the site of the Tecnópolis exposition fairground. This article about a place in Buenos Aires Province , Argentina is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vicente L%C3%B3pez Partido Vicente López is located 20 kilometers north of downtown Buenos Aires and 80 kilometers north of the city of La Plata , the provincial capital. The partido incorporates several smaller neighborhoods, including Olivos , Florida and La Lucila with
15-577: A total estimated population of 269,420. Its 33 km² makes Vicente López the smallest partido in the Buenos Aires Province and the second smallest municipality in Argentina. Vicente López is renowned for its expansive residential neighborhoods, the Argentine presidential residence , and its coastal park along the Río de la Plata . In October 2023, Vicente López was named a UNESCO City of Film and joined
20-579: The UNESCO Creative Cities Network . The partido's name honors Vicente López y Planes , an Argentine writer and politician, author of the lyrics of the Argentine National Anthem, governor of Buenos Aires province (after the fall of Juan Manuel de Rosas ) and then President of Argentina succeeding Bernardino Rivadavia . López y Planes also composed El Triunfo Argentino , an ode to the resistance during
25-685: The English invasion of Buenos Aires. At the beginning it was going to be called "Olivos", currently the name of the most important district of Vicente López. The partido is bordered by the city of Buenos Aires to the South, General San Martín Partido to the West, San Isidro Partido at the North and Río de la Plata to the East. Vicente López is the 8th most populated partido of Greater Buenos Aires . Most of
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