[1] Chacarita Cemetery has designated areas for members of the Argentine artistic community, including writers, prominent composers and actors.

The late Justicialist leader and former President Juan Perón was buried here until his remains were relocated in 2006 to a mausoleum in his former home in San Vicente.

Until then, the "Cementerio del Sud" (opened in 1867 to bury the dead from cholera and typhoid fever epidemics, located in Parque Patricios) operated as the city's cemetery.

In the northwest section, a 5-hectare land was chosen, in the same place where a cemetery owned by Jesuit priests existed.

As the epidemic went by, coffins accumulated at the cemetery's door, sometimes buries took a week due to the great amount of victims.

It had been projected by French engineer Enrique Clement during the government of major Torcuato de Alvear, and was initially named "Cementerio del Oeste" but then renamed as its predecessor in 1949.

[2] The original Cementerio Viejo of Parque Patricios would be reopened in 1880 to bury the dead of Combate de los Corrales, a fight for Buenos Aires that took place on 22 June.

[2][8] In the 19th century a large number of Britons came to Argentina to work in the many areas of the economy in which England then had extensive interests.