Tres de Febrero Partido

The lands that now comprise the Tres de Febrero Partido were inhabited by Querandí Indians before the discovery of the Americas and during the early years of the conquest.

These indigenous people preferred to set their huts near watercourses, particularly along the current Reconquista River and the Morón, Maldonado, and Medrano streams.

Upon the arrival of the Spaniards, the indigenous people fought tenaciously to defend their possessions but were ultimately defeated and had to submit to the conquerors.

The urbanization of Tres de Febrero Partido, while having specific characteristics, shares broader aspects of development with the majority of Greater Buenos Aires.

Juan de Garay's land grants included "solars" (lots for houses), farms, and estates surrounding villages for growing vegetables, cereal, and dairy production.

Starting in the early 1900s, new railroad stations were created, leading to the development of other primarily residential areas such as Santos Lugares (1906), Ciudadela (1910), and Sáenz Peña (1910).

Until the 1930s, the development of settlements was primarily driven by the expansion of the railroad service and passenger transport, including the introduction of buses (el colectivo) in Buenos Aires in 1930.

As these transport services penetrated Greater Buenos Aires, industrial settlements and housing developments began to emerge in areas remote from or between railroad stations.

In 1958, deputy Alfredo Longo, (born in Caseros), presented a project for the creation of a new partido called "Caseros", composed of the localities of Santos Lugares, Ciudadela, Sáenz Peña, El Palomar and Caseros, which was completed the following year with the enactment of Law 6.065 of Buenos Aires Province by which the October 15 partido was created Tres de Febrero, separating of the San Martín partido, in the area bounded by General Paz avenue, Ferrocarril General Urquiza, Triunvirato street to the Reconquista River, the Reconquista River to Díaz Vélez avenue and thence to the General Paz avenue.

The municipality of Tres de Febrero began its economic financial year and servicing in general from 1 January 1960 based on the previous quartermaster located at 2161 Lisandro Medina, Caseros.

In 1968 when were resolved the issue of the place occupied, a concourse was held to the presentation of projects, He was elected work of architects Odilia Suárez and Eduardo Sarrailh.

Work started in 1969, being in charge of the company Sucesión Carlos Rinadi, which soon after went bankrupt, fact that produced long delays in the initial schedule.

In 1983 under the quartermaster Rodolfo Vasquez's office removals occurred Mayor, time the edifice was called by the name of "Heroes de Malvinas" as a tribute to those who gave their lives in the Falklands War; and is in 1987, when the Concejo Deliberante went to take his place, leaving the former headquarters of the street Lisandro Medina, now demolished, and had been primary site of the first mayors.

Architecturally the edifice is composed of a set of volumetric forms of exposed concrete, checking various parameters carpentry aluminum.

Submitting councilors (6): Martín Jofre, Diego Achilli, Susana Berisso, Raul Mazzeo, Julio Candia and Dora Aguilera.

Its roughly rectangular shape, is oriented in the direction from northwest to southeast, is west of the Buenos Aires city, which separates the General Paz Avenue.

Presents temperate hot summers and cool winters, sufficient rainfall and in some cases generating strong floods, and prevailing winds from the east and northeast.

Currently Tres de Febrero has most of 90 schools (public and private); a School Site Council (in the head town of the partido: Caseros) located on Andrés Ferreyra street, and the University of Tres de Febrero (UNTreF) was created in 1995, and attended by over 12.000 students, as it has different varieties of university courses and this located at a strategic point in the partido.

Tres de Febrero also has different leagues and schools that work with dozens of participants, have added several cultural venues as the game is referred to as the provincial capital of sport with figures known as the boxer La Tigresa Acuña.

Partidos of Greater Buenos Aires : Tres de Febrero: 6
Museum of the Argentine Army, former military barracks in Ciudadela.
Municipality of Tres de Febrero.
Map of the 15 settlements of Tres de Febrero Partido.
University of Tres de Febrero