Don Bosco (Buenos Aires)
Don Bosco is a district (Spanish Localidade ) of Quilmes in Argentina. It lies on the Rio de la Plata and belongs to the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. The place is considered a better location of the urban space, but it is dominated by large social gradient.
Geography
Don Bosco is situated about 12 kilometers southeast of Buenos Aires city center, two kilometers north of the center of Quilmes. It extends as a rectangle of about 5 × 1 km from La Plata shore inland. The La Plata arises here as already constitute over 30 km wide bay of the South Atlantic
The district is divided into four zones. In the middle is the actual center, a moderately densely built-up residential, commercial and small industrial park. In the Northeast, there extends a vast beach and marsh at La Plata. In between Nuevo Quilmes, a closed residential district raised class art, establishment of Telintar. The southwest end form the Itatí Villa and Villa Azul, the largest slum in the city. Between the former and the center still pushes the area of the Policlínico del Vidrio.
The boundary of the district is in the northeast of the Río de la Plata, in the southeast of the Avenidas Lomas de Zamora - Montevideao to Bernal Oeste, a suburb of Bernal Quilmes, in the southwest of the Avenida Sargento Cabral to Bernal Este, and to the northwest extension of the Avenida ( Colonel) Lynch Wilde, a district of Avellaneda.
Don Bosco had about 21,000 inhabitants at the 2001 census. Today, there are likely to be much more, but the residents of the villa Itatí which falls to two-thirds in this district ( the rest is in Bernal Este ), is given as 45,000 in 2012.
History
Originally to have been a settlement of the indigenous Guaraní here. The European colonization of the room begins soon after 1580, the founding of Buenos Aires, by Juan de Garay, with two estancias del Adelantado and De Gaitán. Until the 19th century, the area was largely on plantation agriculture, but also influenced trade and small businesses, has been cultivated mainly fresh fruit ( pears, peaches, watermelons) for the capital. From 1666 here Reducción de la Santa Cruz de los Indios justified Quilmes, a camp for the remains of a auflehenden indigenous people of the Andes, who were settled here as laborers, and became extinct. 1812, the reduction was dissolved and converted into a settlement.
1850 was the property of the Bernal family, which also belonged to Don Bosco, parceled. Main road was today Avinida San Martin, which branches from the RP36 - Avellaneda Pipinas after Quilmes. A good portion of the street grid of Don Bosco follows the course of this road, the rest of the modern La Plata Shore parallel grid of the metropolitan area.
1872, a railway was built along the road, the railway line Buenos Aires - La Plata ( Ferrocarril General Roca ), connecting via Quilmes Avellaneda with the provincial center. 1885, the telephone connection, 1886, the regular postal service at the train station was set up. In 1894, one the first school ( Escuela N 6).
1895 was here - in the former Estancia de los Dominicos of the Convento de Santo Domingo de la Orden de los Dominicos Predicadores - a branch of the Salesians of Don Bosco, who had been active since 1875 in Buenos Aires ( with the first foreign mission of the Salesians ). At first novitiate, it sent by May 29, 1898 at the Colegio de Bernal Salesian extended ( foundation stone was laid April 5, 1891 ). In 1895, the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Guardia, inaugurated the church of the district. The Salesian Sisters (FMA, Spanish Hermanas de María Auxiliadora ) made also a resident. The Salesians are here today especially in youth work and care of the poor district operates.
1914 was followed by an ambulance, the first doctor on site, Fernando Pozzo founded. In the year Nuestra señora de la Guardia was also charged to the parish church.
The Camino General Belgrano, the national road Buenos Aires - La Plata, was built in the 1910s, this is now the RN1 highway. It separates the city from the coast country.
Local custom plain - - as Parada Km.13 designated station renamed in Estación Don Bosco, at the instigation of the Salesian priest Lambruschini who was friends with his contemporaneous Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen - 1929 then was the loud decree "on the people's desire " and commending " effective work of excel ducks educator ". Subsequently, the name was also spread to the entire district, and this is now expected next to Bernal as their own. The founder of the Salesians of Don Bosco, was beatified shortly before, and so was also patron saint. The formal renaming of the settlement dated April 17, 1931. Effective 25 November 1979 to mark the centennial anniversary of the Salesian office, Don Bosco was placed in the rank of Ciudad.
From the 1940s, the district has increasingly, first along the track, and still retains some historic mansions in the city core. Don Bosco is as a living space of the middle class by quite a good reputation. A council had already been established in 1938.
Since the 1960s emerged in the urban space around the junction of the RN1 an illegal shanty town (Spanish villa miseria ), built by migrant workers who come mostly from Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico. The area is sharply demarcated from the surrounding city centers in the streets, a social contact takes place only between Itatí and the tram stop. The Villas Itatí and Azul are in regular inundation area of the former lagoon, and are characterized by crime and drug problems.
2007-2010 was on the coastal side, up to the highway, Nuevo Quilmes as a closed, gated residential community ( barrio cerrado, barrio privado ubicado, gated community) built a luxurious settlement, which is distributed around its own lagoon. The area had the state-owned telecommunications company Startel, today ENTEL heard. It includes about 650 residential units and 5 acres of park, as well as a shopping center. A worsening of the flood situation in the surrounding low-lying areas after extensive field work is feared.
Infrastructure and culture
Don Bosco is well connected by the railway as well as the motorway at the Greater Buenos Aires. At the breakpoint run two metropolitan lines of Ferrocarril General Roca, Constitución after Bosques and La Plata ( Operator: Unidad de Gestión de Operativa Ferroviaria Emergencia UGOFE ).
In the district there are several public and private schools, a public library ( Biblioteca Popular Don Bosco ), two clubs (social centers, sports clubs, Libertad and Don Bosco of the Salesians ), a hospital ( Policlínico del Vidrio ) and a first- aid center.
Hauptfestivität of the place are the Festejos de la semana de Don Bosco 16 - 23rd November, which the patron was honored. The week has been declared by the City Council by regulation as " of municipal interest ."