San Martín (Buenos Aires)

San Martín

Basic data
location	34 ° 34 ′  S , 58 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 34 ° 34 ′  S , 58 ° 33 ′  W
Height above d. M .:	28  m
administration
Province :	Buenos Aires (Province)
Partido :	General San Martin
Founding:	1856
Mayor:	Gabriel Katopodis
Others
Postal code :	B1650
Telephone code:	011
San Martín website

Ciudad del Libertador General Don José de San Martín , or San Martín for short , is a city in the greater Buenos Aires area in Argentina . It is the capital of the Partido General San Martín administrative district , which borders the Argentine capital to the northwest . Like the district of the same name ( Partido ), it is named after General José de San Martín , a South American independence fighter. In 1992 the Universidad Nacional de San Martín was founded as a reform university. This makes it one of the youngest universities in Argentina. The university is one of the highest-ranking universities in the country.

Town twinning

• Civitanova Marche in the Marches (Italy), since 1990
• Alytus in Lithuania, since 2006

sons and daughters of the town

• José Hernández (1834–1886), journalist and poet
• Oscar Alfredo Gálvez (1913–1989), racing driver and Formula 1 driver
• Germán Orduna (1926–1999), Romanist, Hispanic and Medievalist
• Luciano Benjamín Menéndez (1927–2018), general and member of the military dictatorship
• Aron Pinczuk (* 1939), Argentine-American solid-state physicist
• Néstor Togneri (1942–1999), football player
• José Alberto Iglesias Correa (1945–1972), known as a tanguito, singer and songwriter
• Juan Barbas (* 1959), former soccer player
• Federico Sztyrle (* 1964), show jumper
• Carlos María Domínguez (* 1965), Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in San Juan de Cuyo
• Nahuel Fioretto (* 1981), Argentinian-Italian soccer player
• Marianela Núñez (* 1982), ballet dancer
• Pablo Mouche (* 1987), football player
• Ismael Sosa (* 1987), football player
• Nicolás Gaitán (* 1988), football player

San Martín Town Hall