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3 unusual facts about Luján, Buenos Aires Province


Abadía de San Benito

The monks were forced to consolidate their efforts, abandoning many of their previous apostolates and transferring the monastery to a rural location near Luján on April 12, 1987.

Francisco Javier Muñiz

He was promoted to Army Surgeon Major that year and transferred to Luján in 1828 to be a physician to police and military troops.

Jozef Cíger-Hronský

Jozef Cíger-Hronský (original name Jozef Cíger; born 23 February 1896 in Zvolen, present-day Slovakia, died 13 July 1960 in Luján, Argentina) was a Slovak writer, teacher, publicist, later secretary and manager of the Matica slovenská.


AALC

Asociación Atlético Luján de Cuyo, a football club from Luján de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina

Alberto Sileoni

The election of Mayor de la Rúa as President in late 1999 resulted in the project's raplacement and Sileoni's appointment as Director of Secondary Education and Undersecretary for Buenos Aires Province Governor Carlos Ruckauf.

Antonio Rattín

Antonio Ubaldo Rattín (born May 16, 1937 in Tigre, Buenos Aires Province) is a former Argentine football player, best known as a Boca Juniors midfielder, and because of an incident in a match at the 1966 FIFA World Cup.

Azucena Villaflor

That night, Azucena Villaflor was taken by armed force from her home in Villa Dominico, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires.

Carletonomys

Carletonomys cailoi was discovered in 1998 in a silt deposit in San Cayetano Partido, southeastern Buenos Aires Province.

Carlos Ruckauf

Elected Governor of Buenos Aires Province in 1999, he issued the provincial Patacón bonds in August 2001 to deal with the scarcity of Argentine pesos when the 2001 Argentine economic crisis entered its most acute phase.

Catedral Basílica de Mercedes-Luján

Catedral Basílica de Mercedes-Luján ("Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Mercy") is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján and a minor basilica in Mercedes, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

Ceferino Namuncurá

In 1924 his remains were returned to Argentina and placed at Fortín Mercedes, in the southern part of Buenos Aires Province.

Claudio O'Connor

Claudio Alberto Castro, also known as Claudio O'Connor (born April 28, 1963 in Llavallol, Buenos Aires Province) is a thrash metal, groove metal and hard rock vocalist from Argentina.

Club Atlético Fénix

As a result, Fénix left the neighborhood of Colegiales (where its headquarters still remain) moving to Pilar Partido in Buenos Aires Province.

Colegio Nacional de San Isidro

It is located at 165 Acassuso (the address in Spanish would show the street number last), in San Isidro City, Buenos Aires Province, near the San Isidro Cathedral.

Darwin's Rhea

The specific name was bestowed in 1834 by Darwin's contemporary and rival Alcide d'Orbigny who first described the bird to Europeans, from a specimen from the lower Río Negro south of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Eduardo Luján Manera

Eduardo Luján Manera (22 August 1944 - 15 August 2000) was an Argentine football defender, and a manager who won the Argentine Primera with Estudiantes de La Plata as player and manager.

Ethnography of Argentina

Italians became firmly established throughout Argentina, but the greatest concentrations are in the City of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires Province, Santa Fe Province, Entre Rios Province, Córdoba Province, Tucumán Province, La Pampa Province and, in the nearby country of Uruguay.

Frank Aguon

Aguon is currently married to Jennifer Lujan Aguon, who played for the Women's Softball team won a gold medal for Guam at the 1998 Micronesian Games in Palau, Aguon has five children.

French Argentine

In the Buenos Aires province, they mostly settled south of a line uniting the partidos of Tandil and Azul, their presence being particularly noticeable in the town of Pigüé.

Frenchmen were particularly numerous in the wine-producing departments of Maipú, Luján and in the French colony of San Rafael, founded by engineer Julio Gerónimo Balloffet.

Gilbert Luján

As a young teenager, Luján was heavily influenced by the Afro-American music scene in Los Angeles, for instance listening to Johnny Ace, Spade Cooley, and Mary Wells.

Guillermo Saputo

Guillermo Javier Saputo (born May 1, 1977 in José C. Paz Partido, Buenos Aires) is a light middleweight boxer from Argentina, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Héctor Icazuriaga

Icazuriaga was born in Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province to Basque Argentine parents (his Basque descent inspired his nickname, El vasco, though he is also known as Pancho and El Chango).

Hugo Cóccaro

Born in Saladillo, Buenos Aires Province, Cóccaro relocated to Tierra del Fuego at age 20 with his brother, with whom he started a construction firm.

José Luis Cabezas

In each case the public largely believed that these people were being used as scapegoats, in order to cover up maneuvers by Buenos Aires Province Governor Eduardo Duhalde.

José Massaroli

José María Massaroli (born September 30, 1952) is an Argentine comic artist, born in the Ramallo Partido, Buenos Aires Province.

Juan Barbas

Juan Alberto Barbas (born 23 August 1959 in San Martín, Buenos Aires) is a retired Argentine football defensive midfielder, He played for a number of clubs in Argentina, Spain, Italy and Switzerland before turning his hand to management in 2009 with Racing Club de Avellaneda.

Juan Carlos Blumberg

He has been courted by Mauricio Macri of the centre-right Commitment to Change party, possibly as a candidate to be governor of Buenos Aires Province for the PRO alliance.

Julián Irízar

Admiral Julián Irízar (Capilla del Señor, Buenos Aires Province, January 7, 1869 – March 17, 1935) was an officer of the Argentine Navy.

Leonardo López Luján

López Luján received his bachelor’s degree in archaeology from Mexico’s National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), which he attended from 1983 to 1987 as a student of Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, who directed his thesis on the Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan (1990).

Lito Vitale

Héctor Facundo Vitale (born December 1, 1961, Villa Adelina, Buenos Aires province), known as Lito Vitale, is an Argentine musician, composer and arranger.

Loncopán

Of nomadic character, the tschen travelled through the south area of the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa and Cordoba.

Manuel Lujan, Jr.

Other notable events of Lujan's term included frequent debates over the spotted owl, the construction of the Washington Redskins stadium on federal property in Washington, D.C., and the increased regulation of Indian casinos.

Marcelino Nicolas Lopez

Marcelino Nicolas Lopez (born May 6, 1986 in Arribenos, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a boxer in the Lightweight division.

María Eugenia Vidal

Vidal was fielded in the Republican Proposal (PRO) party list as a candidate for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Buenos Aires Province in 2005, though unsuccessfully; she was later elected to the Buenos Aires City Legislature.

Nelda Ramos

She is a teacher of Visual arts with guidance in ceramics graduated at EMBA School of Fine Arts in Quilmes (Buenos Aires Province) and at IUNA (University of Buenos Aires).

Nuvein Magazine

The Nuvein Foundation board of directors originally included the following: Jeffrey Bickel, UCLA Film and Television Archive; Juan Nunez, Valley Vista Services; Roberta Lujan, Golfland South El Monte; Miguel Sankitts, Mavrec Global; Renato Aguirre, IDM; Ryan Storms, Sk8Life Clothing; Jody Bush, El Monte/South El Monte Chamber of Commerce, Enrique D. Diaz, and Anh Lottman.

Olga Talamante

She arrived in Azul, Buenos Aires Province, and began working for Juventud Peronista, a poverty-relief agency, in one of the city's poorest sectors.

Paso del Rey

In fact, Charles Darwin could have crossed the ford in his journey from Buenos Aires to Luján on September 27 1833 (the only alternative crossing was a wooden bridge known as Puente de Márquez, 4.5 km north).

Pop Chalee

Pop Chalee was born Merina Lujan on March 20, 1906 in Castle Gate, Utah.

Quequén Grande River

The Quequén Grande River is located in southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

Raúl Uranga – Carlos Sylvestre Begnis Subfluvial Tunnel

Until the opening of the Rosario-Victoria Bridge, this was the only road link between two commercially important and populous regions of Argentina, and the only one between the two provinces (more to the south, Entre Ríos is connected to the province of Buenos Aires by the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge).

Roman Catholic Diocese of Zárate-Campana

Oscar Sarlinga, who as Auxiliary Bishop of Mercedes-Lujan, (from April 12, 2003) was appointed diocesan bishop of Zarate-Campana, on February 3, 2006, by Pope Benedict XVI, having taken possession of the diocese on February 18 that year.

Rubén Glaria

He was provincial sports minister for Buenos Aires Province From 1995 he served as the Justicialist Party mayor of José Clemente Paz, until 1999 when he was displaced by a rival group of Justicialists.

Rubén Pagnanini

Rubén Oscar Pagnanini (born 31 January 1949 in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine former football (soccer) player who played for the Argentina national team.

SS Monte Nevoso

In early October 1932 Monte Nevoso left the port of La Plata, Buenos Aires Province in Argentina with a cargo of 8600 tons of Wheat, Maize and Linseeds, bound for Europe.


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