Pinamar is an Argentine coastal resort city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in Buenos Aires Province.
Located less than 400 km (249 mi) south of Buenos Aires, it is one of several small seaside communities that line the coast.
In the 19th century, the region where the Pinamar Partido stays nowadays was a desertic area plenty of dunes facing the sea.
[1] In 1907, the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway opened the Juancho station built on lands previously owned by José Guerrero.
The touristic activity would then increase when visitors came to Pinamar via Juancho station (onboarded by horse-drawn carriages which took them to the respective towns).
[2] In the last years of the 30's, architect Jorge Bunge, a visionary man, associated with Valeria Guerrero, owner of the land and Felicitas's niece, both formed a partnership and Bunge created an urban design as particular as innovative, tracing the streets in the form of arabesques and curves to respect the dunes and undulations of the landscape.
They were joined by a group of people, including men from the countryside, industrialists and professionals motivated by the desire to overcome a real challenge.
By 1942 urbanization began; the road network was extended, houses were built for the company's hierarchical personnel and specific studies on the natural resources and climatic characteristics of the place were completed, essential data for the realization of the Master Plan that would project the integral conformation of the landscape required.
Fractions of land were donated for the construction of the School, the First Aid Room, the Civic Center, the Police Detachment, the Weather Station and the Church.
In that same year, the first golf course, the School, the first aid room, the Church of Our Lady of Peace, the Water and Light Cooperative, the public telephone, the post office and the original pier were inaugurated.
[2] In 1991 the Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Eduardo Duhalde, expressed his intention to reactivate the Gral.
Madariaga service (those tracks had not been removed) also stating that the government was studying to extend the line to Pinamar.