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Ramos Mejía is a Town in
La Matanza Partido La Matanza ('The Slaughter' in Spanish) is a '' partido'' (county or department) located in the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. This provincial subdivision had 1,775,272 inhabitants (at the 2010 Cen ...
, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The town has an area of and a population of 98,547. The city is one of the largest commercial districts in the Western Zone of Greater Buenos Aires.


History

The land where the city is now located was originally purchased from Martín José de Altolaguirre by Francisco Ramos Mejía in 1808. Ramos Mejía was the son of a merchant from
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, and had returned from a nine-year stay in the
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, where his business interests had met with success. The ranch became noteworthy as the site of the first public religious controversy in Argentina, when Ramos Mejía's differences over the interpretation of
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with the local parish priest, Father Castañeda, led to the former's exile from the parish in 1821. The property remained in name of wife, María Antonia Segurola de Ramos Mejía, who became its sole proprietor upon her husband's death in 1828. Confiscated by order of Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1840, it was returned to the widow in 1853 following Rosas' overthrow. She bequeathed the land to her four sons in a living trust. They, in turn, sold the first lots to the
Buenos Aires Western Railway The Buenos Aires Western Railway (BAWR) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Oeste de Buenos Aires), inaugurated in the city of Buenos Aires on 29 August 1857, was the first railway built in Argentina and the start of the extensive rail network which was ...
, which opened the station at the site on September 25, 1858, along the nation's first
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. Subsequent sales by the heirs, and its resale as parcels, led to the establishment of the town in 1871. Buoyed by the subsequent wave of
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, Ramos Mejía grew rapidly and in 1904, the cobblestone
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reached the town from Buenos Aires. The original station was replaced in 1907 by a larger structure designed by Dutch architect John Doyer; one of the most recognizable examples of
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in Argentina, the building itself was converted to a museum in 2008. Ramos Mejía would be the site of other milestones in the history of Argentine public transport. The establishment of the Transporte Ideal San Justo, a
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company, in 1921, marked the birth of the popular transport service in Argentina (where they are known as ''
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s''). The
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of the Western Railway line in 1923 between Ramos Mejía and the
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terminal in Buenos Aires would be another first in the nation. Among the most important educational institutions in the city are the Ward College, established in 1913, the Santo Domingo College (founded in 1915), and the
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Wilfrid Barón College of
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, established in 1930; one of its alumni was the future
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, who (as Jorge Bergoglio) studied here as a sixth-grader. The local ''Casa de la Cultura'' ("cultural house") houses the Leopoldo Marechal Theatre, one of the most important such establishments in La Matanza County. Ramos Mejía was officially recognized as a city by the Provincial Legislature on September 17, 1964. The city is the birthplace of, among other well-known personalities in Argentina, comedian Antonio Gasalla, cyclist and olympic gold medalist Walter Pérez, former Vice President Carlos Ruckauf, Governor
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, screenwriter Damián Szifrón, and songwriter María Elena Walsh.


Places of Interest

Ramos Mejía is located approximately 14 km from City center of the capital, and has rapid access through
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s. Has many importante historical buildings, churches, and huge schools and edifications, very attractive residential places, intense night life, Cultural centers and a mall (called in Argentina) with many products and services, together to the downtown where a mix between old houses and very big tower buildings and offices. The Ramos Mejia Station: it's a city heritage, and the mansion next to the station has a huge simolic value, because it's the center of the story of Ramos Mejia. This building, from 1906 was designed and built by the Architect
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John Doyer (1862-1936), who designed and built also the
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. The architecture design matches the late Victorian style.


Education


Public Schools

*School Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Elementary) *School General José de San Martín (Elementary/High School) *School José Manuel Estrada (Elementary/High School) *School
Bernardino Rivadavia Bernardino de la Trinidad González Rivadavia (May 20, 1780 – September 2, 1845) was the first President of Argentina, then called the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, from February 8, 1826 to June 27, 1827. He was educated at t ...
(Elementary) *School República de Brasil (Elementary) *School Juan Bautista Alberdi (Elementary) *School
Hipólito Yrigoyen Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen (; 12 July 1852 – 3 July 1933) was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union and two-time President of Argentina, who served his first term from 1916 to 1922 and his second ...
(Elementary) *School Patricias Argentinas (Elementary) *School Jorge Simon Liborio Muse (Elementary) *School Sargento Cabral (Elementary) *School General G. A. de Lamadrid (Elementary) *School Alas Argentinas (Elementary) *School República de Venezuela (Elementary) *School José Félix Bogado (High School) *School Santa María de Buenos Aires (High School) *School Esteban Echeverria (High School) *School Juan B de la Salle (High School)


Private Schools

*School Nuestra Señora de Fatima (Elementary - High School) *School Parroquial San Juan XXIII (Maternal - Inicial - Elementary - High School regular and technical - Tertiary) *Institute Don Bosco (Elementary - High School) *School Ramos Mejia (Inicial - Elementary - High School) * School Santo Domingo (Kindergarten - Elementary - High School) *Institute San Miguel (Inicial - Elementary - High School) *School Santísimo Redentor (Elementary - High School) *Escuela Argentina del Oeste (Elementary - High School) *Escuela
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(Elementary - High School) *Institute Santo Tomás de Aquino (Kindergarten - Elementary - High School) *Institute French (Kindergarten - Elementary - High School) *School del Parque (Elementary - High School) *Escuela Colina de la Paz (Elementary) *Institute Sarmiento (High School) *Institute Juan José Castelli (High School) — Closed in 2008 permanently *School Guillermo de Orange - Orange Day School (Inicial - Elementary - High School)


Public Figures

* Luis Fabián Artime, soccer player * Juan Alberto Badía, radio and tv host * Lázaro Barbieri, politician * Héctor Calcaño, actor * Catriel Ciavarella, musician * Alberto Samid business man * Ignacio Copani, musician * Rodolfo D'Onofrio,
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president * Germán Delfino, soccer referee * Mariano Donda, soccer player *
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, tango conductor *
Sabrina Garciarena Sabrina Paola Garciarena (born July 19, 1983) is an Argentine actress and model. Biography Sabrina Paola Garciarena was born on Julissa 19, 1983 in Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the daughter of Susana and Osvaldo. She has one ...
, actress * Willy Gardi, musician * Antonio Gasalla, actor and comedian * Christian Gómez, soccer player *
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, actress * Rolando Hanglin, radio host * Virginia Hanglin, radio and tv host * Diana Ingro, actress * Horacio Lalia, comic artist * Román Lejtman, journalist * Guillermo López, tv host *
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, politician, Mayor of La Matanza between 2015 and 2019 * Pablo Alejandro Migliore, soccer player * Jorge Minissale, rock musician * Enrique Meyer, politician, Tourism minister between 2010 and 2015 *
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, soccer player (Boca Juniors) * Gustavo "Cucho" Parisi, singer and musician, leader of
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* Walter Pérez, cyclist * Monseñor Jerónimo Podestá * Erica Rivas, actress * Carlos Ruckauf, politician * Luciano Scaglione, bass player and vocalist of
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* Damián Szifron, tv producer * Eugenia Tobal, actress * Fernando Tobio, soccer player * María Elena Walsh, writer and musician


References

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