Villa Raffo is a town in
Tres de Febrero Partido
Tres de Febrero () is a '' partido'' of the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation area in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Toponymy
Tres de Febrero took its name from the 1852 Battle of Caseros between General Justo José Urquiza and J ...
of
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is located in the
Greater Buenos Aires urban agglomeration.
History
The area, the eastern part of which now lies in the
City of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South Am ...
proper, was owned by Bernardino Manzanares in the 19th Century. His heirs sold the land to Ezequiel and Pedro Raffo, from whom the settlement took its name. The land was divided up into lots, and the
Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway
The Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway (BA&P) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Buenos Aires al Pacífico) was one of the ''Big Four'' broad gauge, , British-owned companies that built and operated railway networks in Argentina.
The original concession wa ...
bought a section to construct a neighbourhood for its workers.
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Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Tres de Febrero Partido
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