Manuel B. Gonnet is a city in

La Plata Partido La Plata is a partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, some southeast of the city of Buenos Aires. It has an area of , and a population of 654,324 (). Its capital is La Plata, which also serves as the capital of the province. La Plata is ...

, Argentina. It is part of a group of neighborhoods developed around the then

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(later

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) connecting

La Plata La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. According to the 2022 Argentina census, census, the La Plata Partido, Partido has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabit ...

with

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, and Tolosa, Ringuelet, City Bell and Villa Elisa. It is named after Manuel Bernardo Gonnet, first provincial minister of Public Works (after the

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) and provincial legislator. According to the 2001 Census

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, Manuel B. Gonnet has a population of 22,963 in .

History

On 13 July 1882 the provincial government started construction of new railroad branches to connect the new provincial capital with the

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and the

. The La Plata - Empalme Pereyra (Villa Elisa) line was opened on 1 January 1889. In 1889 at the inauguration of the

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train station, the local landowners decided to start a partnership, subdivide part of the land into lots and found a town. The train station opened on 15 February and on 24 February they announced the establishment of Villa Máximo Paz, named after the then governor. However, the enterprise did not immediately succeed and it took many years to attain a stable population. Initially, the first houses were used as weekend retreats for the rich people of La Plata. When the population started to become established in 1909, Luis Castells, owner of the land on the north side of the railway decided to fraction and sell his land and started the town of Villa Castells. In 1931 the city was renamed as Manuel B. Gonnet, joining Villa Máximo Paz and Villa Castells. In this area, a theme park, the

Republic of the Children The Children's Republic (), is a theme park located in La Plata, Argentina. With a surface of , and 35 scale buildings, it is regarded as the first theme park in the Americas. The Republic represents a city (proportionally sized for children) wit ...

, of around was built in 1951 inspired by the tales and characters of the

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Sports

The area is also known for its sports fields and clubs, such as Club Universitario de La Plata, Rugby Club La Plata and Santa Bárbara Hockey Club. It is also the site of the science campus of the Buenos Aires Province, Science Investigation Commission, the Acoustics and Light Technology Lab, the Center for Optical Research - CIOP, and LINTA.LINTA - Laboratorio de investigaciones del territorio y el ambiente
/ref> The is delimited by Camino Centenario and 505th street, 508th street and 16th street.

References

External links

Official site for Children's Republic
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Official site for La Plata
Populated places in Buenos Aires Province 1882 establishments in Argentina La Plata Partido Populated places established in 1882