Avenida Scalabrini Ortiz is an avenue that runs through

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and Palermo neighborhoods of

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, and goes from southwest to northeast, parallel Avenida Juan B. Justo. It starts at Avenida Warnes, and ends at

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History

In 1867, when this avenue was still a dirt track, it was named ''El Camino del Ministro Inglés'' (''English Minister's Road''), because the English diplomat Henry Southern used it to go downtown from the country house where he lived with his family. A decree on November 27, 1893, changed its name for the first time to Canning, as a tribute to George Canning, former Secretary of Foreign Relations of the

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. Another decree, dictated on May 31, 1974, by the government of Juan Perón, stated that Canning Avenue changed its name into the present one as a tribute to

Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz (February 14, 1898 – May 30, 1959) was an Argentine writer, philosopher, journalist, essayist and poet, friend of Arturo Jauretche and Homero Manzi, and loosely associated with the political group ''Fuerza de Orientac ...

, Argentine

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, nationalist

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and essayist. Two years later, during the military dictatorship, the name of this avenue was changed again into Canning Avenue. Ultimately, with the return of

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, Canning was again renamed to Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, by a December 29, 1985, ordinance. The

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has two stations that serve Avenida Scalabrini Ortiz; stations Scalabrini Ortiz on Line Línea D (SBASE) bullet

and Malabia on Line Línea B (SBASE) bullet

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