Avenida Rivadavia
The Avenida Rivadavia is one of the main thoroughfares in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . It runs over a length of about 35 km from the city center of San Nicolá to the western suburb of Merlo .
history
For the appointment of the first viceroy of the Río de la Plata by Spain in 1776, today's Avenida Rivadavia was called "El Camino Real" (King's Road). In 1782 it was about 1000 km long and led from Buenos Aires to Mendoza . Its route corresponded roughly to today's national road 7. Under the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas , it was renamed Calle Federación in 1836. In 1857 it was given its current name, after the former President Bernardino Rivadavia .
In 1926, the Avenida Rivadavia was connected to the subway. 11 of the 16 stations on Line A are now on the Avenida. In 1935 it was decided to expand the Avenida outside the city limits to become a national road, thereby promoting the development of the western suburbs of Buenos Aires. The increasing car traffic regularly led to large traffic jams on the Avenida from 1970. A new route for the national road 7 north of the Avenida was started in the late 1970s. The new expressway between Buenos Aires and Luján was completed in 1988. In 1980, the historic tram, which was discontinued in 1962, was reopened and has been running in the Caballito district on Avenida Rivadavia ever since .
course
Avenida Rivadavia begins at the northeast corner of Plaza de Mayo . It then runs west along the plaza, past the National Bank of Argentina and the Catedral Metropolitana de Buenos Aires . It then crosses the pedestrian street Florida Street and the wide Avenida 9 de Julio before it merges with the Avenida de Mayo at the Plaza del Congreso . The next important buildings are the Argentine Congress Palace and the Confitería del Molino . In the Balvanera district , it then meets the Plaza Miserere and the Once train station. In Caballito it leads past Parque Rivadavia .
About six kilometers after its start, Avenida Rivadavia runs under Avenida General Paz and reaches the suburb Ciudadela beyond the city limits . It then connects Buenos Aires with the towns of Morón , Castelar , San Antonio de Padua and Merlo . Behind the Río Reconquista, it becomes Avenida Bartolomé Miter. After another 1.5 km it flows in Moreno together with the Avenida Piovano.
literature
- Jorge Alberto Bossio: Los Cafés de Buenos Aires - Reportaje a la Nostalgia , Editorial Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1995 ISBN 950-21-1190-7
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Coordinates: 34 ° 37 ′ 27 ″ S , 58 ° 27 ′ 0.9 ″ W.