General Rodríguez is a western partido

Departments of Argentina

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 of Greater Buenos Aires

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 in Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires Province

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, in Argentina

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. It is a district located on the far western outskirts of the city.

Name

The Partido and its capital are named after Martín Rodríguez (1771-1845), a hero of the defense of Buenos Aires from the British invasion of 1806, a veteran of the Argentine War of Independence

Argentine War of Independence

The Argentine War of Independence was fought from 1810 to 1818 by Argentine patriotic forces under Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli and José de San Martín against royalist forces loyal to the Spanish crown...

and a former governor of Buenos Aires.

Geographic Location

General Rodríguez is located in the northeast portion of Buenos Aires Province, and it is 52 kilometres away from Buenos Aires City. It is also bounded by Pilar, Moreno, Marcos Paz, Merlo and Luján cities. The physical geography of the place corresponds to the Urbanized Prairie Pampeana of Buenos Aires.

Population

According to the preliminary estimates of the total population for General Rodríguez of the census of 2010, the population is 87,491 inhabitants.

• Population in 1991: 48,383 inhabitants (INDEC, 1991)
• Population in 2001: 67,931 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001)

Sports in the city

Located in one of the best areas of the countryside in the region, General Rodríguez, Buenos Aires, holds the most important polo clubs in Argentina. Thanks to the combination of pure thoroughbred horses and pingos of polo in this spot of the Argentinean pampas, the distinguished sports is much more than a tradition.

External links

Acción (local newspaper) Website for Gral. Rodríguez