Área Reserva Cinturón Ecológico (Cinturón Ecological Reserve) is an area of the 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....

, Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires Province

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, Argentina

Argentina

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. It is located on the bank of the Río de la Plata

Río de la Plata

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.

The Area Reserva Cinturón Ecológico, the "Environmental Belt Rerserve Area," was planned during the last dictatorship

National Reorganization Process

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 as part of a circle of landfill

Landfill

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s around Buenos Aires, which after being sated are planted with greenery. The plan resulted from Buenos Aires' 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...

's initiative in 1978 of replacing the city's thousands of apartment building incinerators for curbside pickup service. The reserve's landfills absorb most of the 5,400 daily tons of refuse generated in Buenos Aires.

With a population of 3,408 it is the least populated area in Avellaneda Partido.