It gets its name from the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Agronomy (Facultad de Agronomía, in Spanish) based in the neighborhood.

In 1901 the Executive Branch of the government gave 185 hectares (460 acres) for the construction of the park, but 30 of those hectares were to be used for the Estación Agronómica con Granja Modelo (Agronomic Station and Model Farm) and the Escuela de Agricultura (Agricultural School), an educational institution necessary for the agro-export driven development model that the government was following at the time.

[4] The Faculty of Veterinary Sciences campus is also home to two museums, one of dedicated to animal anatomy and the other of to surgical pathologies.

The Faculty of Agronomy, in addition, contains the Agricultural Machinery Museum and a project titled "Del Campo a la Ciudad" (From the Countryside to the city), a 16 hectare farm used for educational purposes.

Another notable building is the former house of Julio Cortázar, a famous Argentine writer, who lived in an apartment at Artigas 3246.