Villa Domínico

at , Villa Domínico , B 1874 Argentina

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Villa Domínico is a district in the Avellaneda Partido. Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It belongs to the Greater Buenos Aires urban agglomeration.HistoryA 1580 expedition by Captain Juan de Garay, the founder of present-day Buenos Aires, resulted in land grants for an Adelantado, Torres de Vera, and a Regidor, Luis Gaitán. Melchor Maciel purchased the Gaitán heirs' land in 1619, and Maciel's widow, who remarried after his 1633 death, expanded her holdings to 24,000 hectares (60,000 acres). Following the death of their son, Luis Pesoa de Figueroa, in 1725, his widow divided the estate into four equal parcels. Juan Estanislao Zamudio purchased three of the lots, and the fourth was donated by the widow to the Roman Catholic Dominican Order, who established the Convent of Santo Domingo.The Camino Real was extended south from Sarandí by order of the Real Consulado de Buenos Aires, and the pontoon bridge built to extend the road gave this area its first informal name: Paraje del Puente Chico (Little Bridge Outpost). Andrés Pazos bought much of the land in 1820, and his rural home was counted in the 1838 census of Buenos Aires Province commissioned by Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas. Patricio Brown installed the forst industrial establishment, a salted meat maker, in 1850.

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Villa Domínico is Buenos Aires based place and this enity listed in City category. B 1874.