Malvinas Argentinas, Córdoba

Malvinas Argentinas is a suburb of the Argentine city of Córdoba. It lies just east of the city limits and meets there with the Cordoba to the Jardín Arenales district. Four kilometers south of the village runs the Río Suquía.

The name is an allusion to the Argentine claims to the Falkland Islands, which are called in Spanish Malvinas. The original name was Kilómetro 711 according to the mileage on the railway line towards Santa Fe.

Malvinas Argentinas, which counts about 10,000 inhabitants, is a rather poorer working class suburb. It grows because of its low land prices and convenient location between two major roads between Córdoba and Santa Fe at very fast; between 1991 and 2001, the increase was 67 percent.

A special feature is that the place in the official statistics own small conurbation with the quarter Jardín Arenales, which belongs to the city of Córdoba forms. Since Jardín Arenales is however not itself connected by continuous development with the core city of Córdoba ( the gap is about 5 km wide ), it is led by INDEC as an independent site. The close connection between the two towns, connected to a empfondenen by the inhabitants as neglected infrastructure, introduced in 2004 /05 plans, Jardín Arenales auszugemeinden from Córdoba and connect to Malvinas Argentinas. These have been up to 2008 but not realized.