Saavedra, Buenos Aires
Encyclopedia
Saavedra is a barrio
(neighbourhood) of Buenos Aires
, Argentina
. It is located in the Northern end of the city proper, close to Belgrano
and Villa Urquiza
. Its northern border is General Paz Avenue
. Among the main features of the neighbourhood is Saavedra Park, which has large picnic areas and sports facilities. Many inhabitants of Buenos Aires pass through Saavedra en route to their weekends in the country.
The neighbourhood's most famous son is tango singer Roberto Goyeneche
. Also, it was the cradle of Platense
football (soccer)
club. The main characters of Bioy Casares
's novel El Sueño de los héroes ("Dream of Heroes" ISBN 0704326345) live in Saavedra.
The Pan American Freeway
interchange with the General Paz Freeway
, is at Saavedra's northern end. Points south were the site of extesive demolition during the late 1970s tenure of military-appointed Mayor Osvaldo Cacciatore
, whose plan for a network of new expressways including one through Saavedra, one of the city's most residential wards. Never built, the demolished stretch was converted into Roberto Goyeneche Boulevard. Saavedra is also home to an important Phillips manufacturing facility, as well as the Dot Buenos Aires Shopping Center, the city's largest.
Barrio
Barrio is a Spanish word meaning district or neighborhood.-Usage:In its formal usage in English, barrios are generally considered cohesive places, sharing, for example, a church and traditions such as feast days...
(neighbourhood) of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. It is located in the Northern end of the city proper, close to Belgrano
Belgrano, Buenos Aires
Belgrano is a leafy, northern barrio or neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Location :The barrio of Palermo is to the southeast; Nuñez is to the northwest; Coghlan, Villa Urquiza, Villa Ortúzar and Colegiales are to the southwest....
and Villa Urquiza
Villa Urquiza
Villa Urquiza is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires city, capital of Argentina. It is located between the barrios of Villa Pueyrredón, Belgrano, Villa Ortúzar, Coghlan, Saavedra and Agronomía. Its limits are the streets and avenues Constituyentes, Crisólogo Larralde, Galván, Núñez, Tronador,...
. Its northern border is General Paz Avenue
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...
. Among the main features of the neighbourhood is Saavedra Park, which has large picnic areas and sports facilities. Many inhabitants of Buenos Aires pass through Saavedra en route to their weekends in the country.
The neighbourhood's most famous son is tango singer Roberto Goyeneche
Roberto Goyeneche
Roberto Goyeneche was an Argentine tango singer of Basque descent, who epitomized the archetype of 1950s Buenos Aires' bohemian life, and became a living legend in the local music scene.He was known as El Polaco due to his blond hair, and thinness, like the Polish immigrants of the time...
. Also, it was the cradle of Platense
Club Atlético Platense
Club Atlético Platense is an Argentine sports club based in Vicente López, in the north side of Greater Buenos Aires. The club nickname is Calamar after the journalist Palacio Zino said that the team moved "like a squid in its ink"....
football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
club. The main characters of Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, and translator. He was a friend and collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges, and wrote what many consider one of the best pieces of fantastic fiction, the novella The Invention of Morel.-Biography:Adolfo Bioy...
's novel El Sueño de los héroes ("Dream of Heroes" ISBN 0704326345) live in Saavedra.
The Pan American Freeway
National Route 9 (Argentina)
National Route 9 is a major road in Argentina, which runs from the center-east to the northwest of the country, crossing the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, Salta and Jujuy...
interchange with 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...
, is at Saavedra's northern end. Points south were the site of extesive demolition during the late 1970s tenure of military-appointed Mayor Osvaldo Cacciatore
Osvaldo Cacciatore
Osvaldo Cacciatore was an Argentine Air Force officer and former de facto Mayor of Buenos Aires during the National Reorganization Process military dictatorship.-Early life:Osvaldo Andrés Cacciatore was born in Buenos Aires in 1924...
, whose plan for a network of new expressways including one through Saavedra, one of the city's most residential wards. Never built, the demolished stretch was converted into Roberto Goyeneche Boulevard. Saavedra is also home to an important Phillips manufacturing facility, as well as the Dot Buenos Aires Shopping Center, the city's largest.
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