Los Hornos is a town in La Plata Partido , Buenos Aires , Argentina.
4-494: Los Hornos belongs to the Greater La Plata urban conglomerate. Its name, ( Spanish for "the [brick] ovens" or "the furnaces"), refers to the several brick factories that were located in the area at the end of the 19th century, and which supplied the bricks for many of the buildings in the nascent city of La Plata. The area was heavily settled by Italian immigrants, and became renowned for its many family orchards. The town has
8-573: A distinct personality and atmosphere. In Los Hornos we can find the municipal cemetery, a protected local landmark, and the Parish St. Benjamin. This article about a place in Buenos Aires Province , Argentina is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Greater La Plata Gran La Plata (Greater La Plata) is an urban agglomeration formed around the city of La Plata , in Buenos Aires Province , Argentina . It includes
12-569: The La Plata , Berisso and Ensenada partidos (departments). Gran La Plata is located to the south of the Greater Buenos Aires agglomeration next to Rio de La Plata . To a small extent, the two metropolitan areas have slowly begun to merge. Nevertheless, the main centres remain separated by two dense forest reserves: the " Punta Lara jungle" (" Selva marginal ") by the River Plate , and
16-467: The "Pereyra Iraola Park" ("Parque Pereyra Iraola") a few kilometers inland. The cities of Berisso and Ensenada existed well before La Plata and were both candidates to become the capital city of Buenos Aires Province once Buenos Aires city was federalized in 1880. Eventually, it was decided to build a new city, La Plata, entirely designed to serve as the provincial capital. It was founded in 1882. Soon after, irregular suburbs began to appear outside
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