Burzaco is a city in
Almirante Brown Partido
Almirante Brown is a partido of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, located at the south of the Gran Buenos Aires urban area, at coordinates .
It has an area of and 555,731 inhabitants (), and its capital is Adrogué.
Name
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Buenos Aires Province
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, Argentina. It has an area of 22.77 km
2, holds a population of 98,859 (). It is 27 kilometres from
Buenos Aires
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city, to which it is linked by the
Ferrocarril General Roca South. Although there were some farms in the area since at least since the end of the 18th century, Burzaco was first established as a town soon after the arrival of the railway in 1865. The current city is the site of the country's first ever
National Flag
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monument, in Burzaco's main square.
Notable people
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Ramiro Enrique (born 2001) – footballer
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Claudia Piñeiro (born 1960) – novelist and screenwriter
External links
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Municipal websiteBurzaco-OnLine
Almirante Brown Partido
Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Cities in Argentina
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