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Bernal is a city located in the northeast of Quilmes in the province of Buenos Aires, approximately 10 miles south of the city of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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. It is the second largest and most populated city in the Partido of Quilmes. Bernal borders Avellaneda Partido

Avellaneda Partido

Avellaneda is a partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It has an area of 55.17 km² and a population of 340,985 . Its capital is the city of Avellaneda....

and Lanús Partido

Lanús Partido

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to the north-west, the city of Quilmes

Quilmes, Buenos Aires

Quilmes is a city in the . It is the capital of Quilmes Partido , and has a population of 230,810. It is located south of the capital of Argentina, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires....

to the south-east, Almirante Brown Partido

Almirante Brown Partido

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and Lomas de Zamora Partido

Lomas de Zamora Partido

Lomas de Zamora is a partido of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and part of the Greater Buenos Aires urban agglomeration.It has an area of , and a population of 613,192 , the second most populated partido in the Greater Buenos Aires agglomeration...

to the south-west the Río de la Plata

Río de la Plata

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to the north-east.

Bernal consists of the neighborhoods of Barrio Parque, Villa Cramer, Villa Alcira, and Bernal Centre, among others. The Railway General Roca

Ferrocarril General Roca

Ferrocarril General Roca , named after the former Argentine president Julio Argentino Roca, was one of the six state-owned Argentine railway companies formed after President Juan Perón's nationalisation of the railway network in 1948...

divides the city in two.

History

The Bernals were an old family from the days of colonial Buenos Aires. In the mid-19th century, a descendant of the family, Don Pedro Bernal, established a farm in the Partido of Quilmes, and built a house on that site. In 1850, he divided the land up into smaller farms which were then settled by other prominent families, such as the Molina Salas, Ayersa, Tasso, and Bagley. 1850 is deemed as the official foundation year of the City of Bernal.

Population

In 2001, Bernal had with 109,790 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001) the second largest population in the Partido of Quilmes, roughly 25% of the total partido population : 76,499 in West Bernal, 33,415 in East Bernal. These numbers imply a population growth of 15% compared with the figures of the 1991 INDEC Census which had shown a population of 111,361 inhabitants.

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