Partido Lanus
Lanus | |
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Location of Lanús in Argentina | |
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Capital | Lanus |
population | 453,082 (2001, INDEC) |
surface | 45 km² |
Population density | 10,069 inhabitants / km² |
Other cities | 6 localidades |
Website | http://www.lanus.gov.ar |
Lanús is the name of an administrative area (" Partido ") in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires . It is part of the metropolitan area of Greater Buenos Aires .
453,082 people (2001) live in the 45 km² Partido. In the decade before the last reporting period, the population decreased by about 3.3%. The capital Lanús is home to around 212,152 people.
In practical terms, Lanús is an industrially oriented suburb in the south of the Argentine capital. Tourists are likely to feel attracted only in rare cases, especially since the area is also interspersed with numerous villa miserias .
location
Lanús is separated from the capital in the north by the extremely polluted Riachuelo River . In addition, Lanús borders the Partido Avellaneda in the east, the Partido Quilmes in the south and the Partido Lomas de Zamora in the west .
Localidades
Lanús is divided into 6 localities, so-called Localidades :
In addition, the Partido Lanús is divided into 41 barrios .
history
In 1944 it was decided to separate Lanús from the Avellanedas area and to make it an independent partido.
education and Science
Lanús has a university, the Universidad Nacional de Lanús .
In 1968 in the Clínica Modelo de Lanús by Dr. Miguel Bellizzi performed the first heart transplant in Argentina. At the time, it was the second in Latin America and 18th in the world.
Sports
The CA Lanús represents Lanús in the highest Argentine soccer league, but had until the success in 2007 in the Argentine semi-series championship, the "Apertura", apart from the victory in the South American Copa Conmebol 1996 to show no major successes. In December 2013, the team won the final of the Copa Sudamericana against AA Ponte Preta from Brazil . The team in the brown jerseys plays its home games in the city's Ciudad de Lanús - Néstor Díaz Pérez stadium, known as La Fortaleza , "the fortress". It has space for around 46,000 spectators.
Decades ago, clubs like Sportivo Alsina and Esgrima de Lanús managed to negotiate the national basketball championship among themselves - today, however, the top Argentine clubs come from other regions.
In Hipódromo o Circo Santa Teresa , the horse racing track, you can invest your money in horse racing.
Incidentally, two of the city's sons are athletes. The boxer Horacio Enrique Accavallo , born on October 14, 1934 in Villa Diamante, was world flyweight champion in the 1960s . Nevertheless, he is far outshone by the 1986 soccer world champion, Diego Maradona y Dalma Franco , as his full name is called, who was born in the local Evita Polyclinic on October 30, 1960.
sons and daughters of the town
- Horacio Cabarcos , double bass player and tango musician
- Leonardo Andres Iglesias , football player
- Diego Maradona , soccer player and coach
- Alfredo Rojas , football player
Web links
- Lanus Municipio - history, pictures, miscellaneous - a private project
- Lanus Web - Miscellaneous - a private project
- AlsinaOnline - Community and culture oriented website
Coordinates: 34 ° 43 ′ S , 58 ° 24 ′ W