LanÃºs Partido

Lanús is the name of an administrative area ( " Partido ") of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires. It is part of the metropolitan area of Greater Buenos Aires.

Within a 45 km ² Partido live 453 082 people ( 2001). In the decade before the last reporting period, the population declined by about 3.3 %. In the capital of Lanús approximately 212 152 people are located.

Practically Lanús is an industrially oriented suburb in the south of the Argentine capital dar. tourists are likely to feel attracted only in rare cases, especially since the area is mixed by numerous Villa Miserias.

Location

Lanús is delimited by the extremely heavily polluted Riachuelo river from the capital to the north. In addition, Lanús is bordered to the east by the Partido Avellaneda, on the south by the Partido Quilmes and to the west by the Partido Lomas de Zamora.

Localidades

Lanús is in 6 villages, called Localidades, divided into:

Gerli
Lanús Este
Lanús Oeste
Remedios de Escalada
Valentín Alsina
Monte Chingolo

In addition, the Partido Lanús divided into 41 barrios.

History

In 1944 it was decided to separate from Lanús area Avellaneda and to make an independent Partido.

Education and Science

Lanús has a university, the Universidad Nacional de Lanús.

1968 was conducted in the Clínica Modelo de Lanús of Dr. Miguel Bellizzi the first heart transplant of Argentina. This was at the time the second in Latin America and the 18th in the world as a whole.

Sports

The CA Lanús Lanús represents the highest Argentine Football League, but had to success in 2007 in the Argentine half of the season championship, the " Apertura ", except for the victory in the South American Copa Conmebol in 1996 to recognize no greater success. The team in the brown jerseys bears their home games at Ciudad de Lanús urban - Néstor Díaz Pérez stadium, called La Fortaleza, " the fortress " from. It has seating for 46,000 spectators.

Decades ago, it still managed clubs such Sportivo Alsina and Esgrima de Lanús identify the national basketball championship among themselves - today the Argentine top clubs come however from other regions.

In Hipódromo o Circo Santa Teresa, the horse racetrack, you can invest your money in horse betting.

Two sons of the city are the way athletes. The boxer Horacio Enrique Accavallo, born on 14 October 1934 in Villa Diamante, in the 1960s was world flyweight champion. He is yet far outshined by football 1986 FIFA World Cup, Diego Maradona y Dalma Franco, as he is called by its full name, who came to the local polyclinic Evita on 30 October 1960 for the world.

Sons and daughters of the town

Horacio Cabarcos, bassist and tango musicians
Leonardo Andres Iglesias, Football Player
Diego Maradona, football player and coach
Alfredo Rojas, football player

Left

Lanus Municipio - History, Images, Miscellaneous - a private project
Lanus Web - Miscellaneous - a private project
AlsinaOnline - Community and culture-oriented website

Partido ( Buenos Aires )

Buenos Aires Province Avellaneda Partido Heart transplantation Weight class (boxing) Almirante Brown Partido Daireaux Partido San Fernando Partido Tres de Febrero Partido

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