Malvinas Argentinas (Cordoba)
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| location | 31 ° 23 ′ S , 64 ° 3 ′ W | ||
| Height above d. M .: | 440 m | ||
| Population (2001): | 8628 | ||
| Agglomeration : | Malvinas Argentinas - Jardín Arenales | ||
| - Population: | 13,441 | ||
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 Cordoba
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| Department : | Colón | ||
| Mayor: | Daniel Omar Arzani, UCR | ||
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| Postal code : | X5125 | ||
| Telephone code: | 0351 | ||
Malvinas Argentinas is a suburb of the Argentine city of Córdoba . It is located directly east of the city limits and borders the Jardín Arenales district of Cordobes . The Río Suquía runs four kilometers south of the town .
The name is a reference to Argentina's claims to the Falkland Islands , which are called Malvinas in Spanish . The original name was Kilómetro 711 after the mileage on the railway line towards Santa Fe.
Malvinas Argentinas, which has about 10,000 inhabitants, is a rather poor working-class suburb. It is growing very quickly because of its low land prices and its favorable location between two main roads between Cordoba and Santa Fe ; between 1991 and 2001 the growth was 67 percent.
A special feature is that the place in the official statistics forms its own small agglomeration with the Jardín Arenales district , which belongs to the city of Córdoba. Since Jardín Arenales itself is not connected to the core city of Córdoba through continuous development (the gap is about 5 km wide), it is managed by INDEC as an independent place. The close connection between the two places, combined with an infrastructure that the inhabitants perceived as neglected, led to plans in 2004/05 to develop Jardín Arenales from Córdoba and to connect it to Malvinas Argentinas. However, these had not been realized by 2008.
Web links
- IFAM Population Statistics (Spanish)