Avenida Rivadavia
The Avenida Rivadavia is one of the main thoroughfares in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. It leads over a length of about 35 km from the city center to the western suburbs of San Nicolás Merlo.
History
For the appointment of the first viceroy of Río de la Plata in 1776 by Spain today Avenida Rivadavia " El Camino Real" ( Royal Highway) was called. In 1782 it was about 1000 km long, leading from Buenos Aires to Mendoza. Your route corresponded approximately to the present-day National Road 7 Under the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas was renamed in 1836 in Calle Federación. In 1857 it received its present name after the former president Bernardino Rivadavia.
1926 received the Avenida Rivadavia subway connection. 11 of the 16 stations on line A are now on the Avenida. 1935, the extension of Avenida outside the city limits to the National Road was decided, and thus promoted the development of the western suburbs of Buenos Aires. The increasing traffic has often caused major traffic jams on the Avenida from 1970. A new route for the National Road 7 north of the Avenida was started in the late 70s. The new expressway between Buenos Aires and Luján was completed in 1988. 1980 was also the Historical tram, which was set in 1962, reopened and reversed since in the Caballito district on Avenida Rivadavia.
Course
The Avenida Rivadavia begins at the northeast corner of the Plaza de Mayo. She then heads west along the plaza, past the National Bank of Argentina and the Catedral Metropolitana de Buenos Aires. Then you cross the pedestrian Calle Florida and the wide Avenida 9 de Julio, before they flow together in the Plaza del Congreso Avenida de Mayo. The next most important buildings are the Argentine Congress Palace and the Confitería del Molino. In Balvanera district they then impinges on the Plaza Miserere and the Once Railway Station. In Caballito it goes past the Parque Rivadavia.
About six kilometers to its beginning leads the Avenida Rivadavia under the Avenida General Paz and reaches beyond the outskirts of the suburb of Ciudadela. It then connects Buenos Aires with the places Morón, Castelar, San Antonio de Padua and Merlo. Behind the Río Reconquista it is then to Avenida Bartolomé Mitre. After a further 1.5 km, it flows in Moreno together with the Avenida Piovano.