Remedios de escalada
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- For the town in Tres de Febrero PartidoTres de Febrero PartidoTres de Febrero is a partido of the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation area in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.-Districts:* Caseros* Churruca* Ciudad Jardín Lomas del Palomar* Ciudadela* El Libertador* José Ingenieros...
see Remedios de EscaladaRemedios de Escalada, Tres de FebreroRemedios de Escalada is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Tres de Febrero Partido....
Remedios de Escalada de San Martín is a city located in Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires Province
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, Argentina
Argentina
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, within Lanús Partido
Lanús Partido
Lanús is a partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, located at the south of the Gran Buenos Aires urban conglomerate neighbouring Buenos Aires city.The partido has an area of , and a population of 453,500 . Its capital is the city of Lanús....
, Gran Buenos Aires. It covers an area of 9,95 km² and the population was 83,636 in 1991; the demonym for its inhabitants is "escaladense."
History
The town was first established by Agustín Eguren as Edén Argentino ("Argentine Eden"), a bedroom community, in 1873. Its population remained in the few hundreds until, in 1890, the Buenos Aires Great Southern RailwayBuenos Aires Great Southern Railway
The Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway was one of the Big Four broad gauge, , British-owned companies that built and operated railway networks in Argentina...
inaugurated a rail yard
Rail yard
A rail yard, or railroad yard, is a complex series of railroad tracks for storing, sorting, or loading/unloading, railroad cars and/or locomotives. Railroad yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock stored off the mainline, so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic....
in the adjoining Villa Galíndez, to the east; La Fraternidad, one of Argentina's first and oldest trade union
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
s, was founded by workers at the site in 1887. Further such installations opened by Eliseo Ramírez and the Ramírez de Lafuente family in 1901 made the area a prime rail operations
Rail transport in Argentina
The Argentine railway network comprised of track at the end of the Second World War and was, in its time, one of the most extensive and prosperous in South America. However, with the increase in highway construction, there followed a sharp decline in railway profitability, leading to the break-up...
hub, and the Great Southern inaugurated its first communter station there in 1902.
The Club Atlético Talleres de Remedios de Escalada
Club Atlético Talleres de Remedios de Escalada
Club Atlético Talleres, usually called Talleres de Remedios de Escalada or simply Talleres, is a sports club sited in Remedios de Escalada neighborhood, in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina...
, the town's first football club, was established in 1906, and plays in the lower leagues of Argentine football
Football in Argentina
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. The town became home to a sizable community of Italian Argentine
Italian Argentine
An Italian Argentine is a person born in Argentina of Italian ancestry. It is estimated up to 25 million Argentines have some degree of Italian descent...
s in the subsequent years, and prominent among these was Luis Máspero, who operated one of the country's largest hat
Hat
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factories, and Víctor Marangoni, owner of an important metalworks establishment; the Italian Mutual Insurance and Assistance Company was established here in 1913.
A number of important cooperative
Cooperative
A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...
s, notably El Hogar Argentino (1911) and La Internacional (1914), opened in the town during that era, as did La Idea, a news daily, in 1915, and the Unión Ferroviaria, a nationally prominent yellow union organized as a counterweight to the intransigent La Fraternidad, in 1921. The Roman Catholic Parish of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios ("Our Lady of Remedies") was consecrated in 1924, and in 1933, Villa Galíndez and the Argentine Eden were incorporated as Remedios de Escalada (in honor of María de los Remedios de Escalada
María de los Remedios de Escalada
María de los Remedios de Escalada was the wife of the leader of the Argentine War of Independence, General José de San Martín.-Life and times:...
, wife of the leader 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...
, General José de San Martín
José de San Martín
José Francisco de San Martín, known simply as Don José de San Martín , was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.Born in Yapeyú, Corrientes , he left his mother country at the...
).
Remedios de Escalada was formally declared a city by the Buenos Aires Province Legislature in 1974. The city later suffered from the effects of a failed plan in the 1980s to expand the General Paz Freeway
Avenida General Paz
Avenida General Paz is a beltway freeway surrounding the city of Buenos Aires. Roughly following the boundary between the city and Buenos Aires Province, it is one of the few motorways in Argentina that is toll-free...
from the Villa Riachuelo
Villa Riachuelo
Villa Riachuelo is a barrio of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the southernmost barrio in Capital Federal.-External links:...
ward in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
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to the city of Avellaneda
Avellaneda
Avellaneda is a port city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the seat of the Avellaneda Partido, whose population was 328,980 as per the ....
; never completed, the demolitions resulting from the project left an extensive swath along the city of empty lots which, in many cases, were not adequately reurbanized. The National University of Lanús
National University of Lanús
The National University of Lanús is an Argentine national university, situated in Remedios de Escalada, Lanús Partido, Buenos Aires Province.It was created on June 7th, 1995 by national law 24,496.-See also:*** Argentine Universities...
, one of the smaller national universities, was established here in 1995.