:La Matanza Partido
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{{Infobox settlement
| name = La Matanza
| native_name = Partido de La Matanza
| native_name_lang = es
| settlement_type = Partido
| image_skyline = Municipalidad de La Matanza.jpg
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| image_caption = La Matanza town hall in San Justo
| image_flag = Bandera del Partido de La Matanza.svg
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| map_caption1 = Location in Greater Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires Province
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| coordinates = {{coord|34|43|S|58|38|W}}
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Argentina
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| established_title = Established
| established_date = 1784
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| seat_type = Seat
| seat = San Justo
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| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Fernando Espinoza
| unit_pref = Metric
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| area_total_km2 = 325.71
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| population_footnotes = [http://www.censo2010.indec.gov.ar 2010 Census results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615003729/http://www.censo2010.indec.gov.ar/ |date=15 June 2011 }}
| population_total = 1,775,272
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| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_demonym = matancero
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| postal_code_type = Postal Code
| postal_code = B1625
| postal2_code_type = IFAM
| postal2_code = [http://www.mininterior.gov.ar/municipios/masinfo.php?municipio=BUE065 BUE065]
| area_code_type = Area Code
| area_code = 011 or 02202
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| website ={{URL|http://www.lamatanza.gov.ar}}
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La Matanza ('The Slaughter' in Spanish) is a partido (county or department) located in the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
This provincial subdivision had 1,775,272 inhabitants (at the 2010 Census) in an area of {{convert|325.71|km2|sqmi|2|abbr=on}}. Its capital city is San Justo, which is located around {{convert|16|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} from the City of Buenos Aires.
History
The origin of the name is uncertain. Is believed to reference a confrontation that Diego, the brother of conquistador Pedro de Mendoza, had with the Querandí tribe in 1536,{{cite web |title=BREVE RESEÑA HISTÓRICA DEL PARTIDO DE LA MATANZA |url=http://www.lamatanza.gov.ar/matanza/historia.php |publisher=Municipality of La Matanza |access-date=20 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309042249/http://www.lamatanza.gov.ar/matanza/historia.php |archive-date=9 March 2012 |language=es}} where he and 22 soldiers that were with him died. This area and the river were named La Matanza (The Slaughter) probably in his name, sometimes using the plural form (Matanzas). The oldest document in which the name of La Matanza appears is dated 29 July 1603.{{cite news |title=El partido de La Matanza cumple 416 años |url=http://www.el1digital.com.ar/articulo/view/84479/el-partido-de-la-matanza-cumple-416-anos |access-date=20 February 2020 |work=El1 Digital |date=29 July 2019 |language=es}}
The partido was named Pago until 1730, then Partido de Matanza y Pozos (Partido of Slaughter and Wells): it was then a largely underpopulated rural area, and was led by a two-mayor system. In 1784, the partido was divided in two into La Matanza and Cañada de Morón (Morón Gully). In 1856, the capital city San Justo was founded.
In the 20th century, its population dramatically increased with the influx of the European immigration first and the internal migration later to the surroundings of the City of Buenos Aires, followed by migrants from neighbouring countries (mainly Bolivia and Paraguay){{cite news|title=La Matanza, "tierra prometida" para miles de inmigrantes|url=http://www.el1digital.com.ar/articulo/view/102/|access-date=14 May 2020|work=El1 Digital|date=3 June 2008|language=es}} by the end of the century.
Population
File:La Matanza 2022 population pyramid.svg
According to the Argentine census bureau, the INDEC, the population was 1,121,298 in 1991, 1,255,288 in 2001 and 1,772,130 in 2010. With an estimate of over 2 million by 2020, it is the most populated partido in the Province of Buenos Aires and the most populated municipality in the country.
Administrative subdivisions
La Matanza Partido is divided into sixteen subdivisions or localidades:
Notes and references
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External links
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- {{official website}}
- [http://www.unlam.edu.ar National University of La Matanza]
- [http://www.el1digital.com.ar/ El1 Digital, a local newspaper]
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