Parque Avellaneda (Park)
The Parque Avellaneda is a public park in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . It is located in the Parque Avellaneda district of the same name , which was named after the park.
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In 1755, a piece of land about five kilometers west of Buenos Aires was transferred to a Catholic order, who built an orphanage and a medicinal plant plantation there. This plantation was acquired by Domingo Olivera in 1828, who set up the first independent agricultural research laboratory in Argentina there. His son Eduardo became a qualified farmer and one of the founding members of the Sociedad Rural Argentina and organizer of the first Argentine agricultural exhibition in 1866.
The Olivera family sold the property to the city of Buenos Aires in 1912 and the Parque Olivera was opened there in 1914 under the direction of Carlos Thays . In the same year the park was renamed Parque Avellaneda in honor of the former president Nicolás Avellaneda. At the time of opening, the park, at 50 hectares, was the largest continuous green space in Buenos Aires. In 1916 a tree nursery was opened there to meet the need for tree seedlings in the city. In 1925, the educator Antonio Zaccagnini opened a school for disabled children at the east end of the park and in 1930 the zoo's park railway was relocated to Parque Avellaneda.
The expansion of Avenida Francisco Bilbao in the 1950s cut off an eight-hectare piece to the south of the park, which was then rededicated for a power grid operator. However, the biggest change in the park's appearance came from an expropriation along Avenida Bilbao , where the Perito Moreno Expressway was built. Opened in 1980, the expressway takes up most of what was previously the southern part of the park. This development and the economic crisis in the 1980s contributed to the decline of the park. Things only picked up again in 1989 when Villa Olivera reopened as a cultural center after years of vacancy. In 1996 a descendant of the Olivera family, Enrique Olivera , became Vice Mayor of Buenos Aires and initiated projects to restore the park as such. The railway was reopened in July 2000 and the “Medicinal Plant Farm Cultural Center” was inaugurated, a tribute to the origins of the park.
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Coordinates: 34 ° 38 ′ 44.4 " S , 58 ° 28 ′ 43.4" W.