Parque Patricios
Parque Patricios | |
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Location o Parque Patricios athin Buenos Aires | |
Kintra | Argentinae |
Autonomous Ceety | Buenos Aires |
Comuna | C4 |
Important steids | Caseros Preeson, Caseros Preeson Demolition Project, Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó |
Area | |
• Total | 3.8 km2 (1.5 sq mi) |
Population (2001) | |
• Total | 40,885 |
• Density | 11,000/km2 (28,000/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-3 (ART) |
Parque Patricios is a barrio locatit on the soothren side o Buenos Aires, Argentinae belangin tae the fowert comuna.
Parque Patricios unnerwent a transformation durin the beginnin o the 1900s. The govrenment muivit the main slauchterhoose tae Mataderos, remuivit refuse piles an the notorious trash incinerators ("la quema") an the cemetery uised durin the 1871 yellae fever epidemic, now Parque Ameghino. Pairks, a zoo an hospitals wur put in their place. Parque Patricios receivit its name frae the pairk o the same name, designed bi Carlos Thays, the French airchitect who designed mony o the maist distinctive pairks in the north o the ceety includin the Botanical Garden an Bosques de Palermo.
This barrio featurs mony hospitals which treat patients frae aw pairts o Argentinae, as well as the notorious umwhile Caseros Preeson.[1] It is the hame o Club Atlético Huracán, a First Diveesion fitbaa team an aw, an their stadium Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó. Parque Patricios is bordered bi the barrios o Barracas an Nueva Pompeya tae the sooth; Constitución tae the east; San Cristóbal tae the north; an Boedo tae the wast.