Description and history
The barrio was named after Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, the 19th century author of the Civil Code of Argentina, and a translator of Latin poems into Spanish language, Spanish. It is a typical low-rise housing area, that like many others was mainly populated during the urban explosion at the beginning of the 20th century. It is currently a middle-class neighborhood, among whose largely low-rise housing there are some small factories and warehouses. The Primera División Argentina, first division football (soccer) club Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield, CA Vélez Sársfield is in fact based in the nearby barrio of Liniers, in the José Amalfitani Stadium, and not in Vélez Sársfield itself. The Maldonado Stream ( es, Arroyo Maldonado) runs through Vélez Sársfield, which in the early 20th century was culverted. The main avenue in the ''barrio'', named after Juan B. Justo, runs over the stream. The Maldonado was at one point a natural boundary for the city limits of Buenos Aires, before the towns of Flores, Buenos Aires, Flores and Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Belgrano emerged (which are now also barrios).External links