Don Torcuato

Don Torcuato is a city located in the south of the Tigre district, in the northern area of Greater Buenos Aires, province of Buenos Aires in Argentina, which was declared a city on November 3, 1974. This town is located 15 km from its closest access to the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and 30 km to the north of the center of the Argentine capital.

It borders the towns of El Talar, General Pacheco, Troncos del Talar, San Fernando, Victoria, Boulogne, José León Suárez, Loma Hermosa, Campo de Mayo and Ingeniero Adolfo Sourdeaux.

It has direct access to the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires via the Belgrano Norte line of the General Belgrano Railway of the Argentine railway network, as well as the Pascual Palazzo Highway, part of the Pan-American Highway. It also had an airport, the pride of many of the inhabitants of Don Torcuato, which was closed in 2006 to build a private neighborhood on the property, since it stopped receiving support and the sale of the San Fernando airfield was sponsored. This airport was one of the busiest private airports in the world, it had several flight schools and aeronautical workshops in which more than 1,000 people worked, there was a staff of the Aeronautical Police and Customs offices.

History

While in office as the President of the Nation, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear asked the Deliberative Council of the Las Conchas party to create the Don Torcuato neighborhood. For this, Alvear himself donated a fraction of land of 40 hectares of the land that belonged to Don Torcuato de Alvear, his father.

During 1928 the new town was taking shape when a large land auction was carried out with the sale of 1,144 lots and 118 villas, which were mostly used for family recreation. Five streets in the city are named after Torcuato de Alvear's nephews: Carlos, Marcelo, Elvira, Marìa and Diego. Another detail that marked the physiognomy of the place was the level and magnificent extension of the Don Torcuato Golf Course, around which many of the new constructions were located, and which was located on a 100-hectare property also donated by the Alvears, in this case to the English railways. Because Don Torcuato was first a train station, which was inaugurated in 1910 (in fact Don Torcuato has two train stations on the same Belgrano Norte branch, Don Torcuato and Vice Alte Montes). Precisely, around the railway activity, an incipient human nucleus was formed, basically dedicated to the work of the countryside, which later welcomed the new town.

In 1938, the members of the founding commission of the Hindu Club, a group of Lasallian students, bought the land of the Golf Course from the railroads and established the headquarters of the institution, today one of the sports entities with the greatest tradition that It has an important sports and social infrastructure. This meant a notable boost for the town, since it became one of the main sources of work for the local inhabitants, while its surroundings grew in its royal residential character. In 1946, Aircom, Don Torcuato Aerodrome, was inaugurated, a terminal that in the sixties became the country's first private international airport. This airport stopped operating in January 2006.

During the first years of the sixties, the construction of the Pan-American Highway was another driver of development in the area, although for those who defended the peacefulness of these places it marked the end of the condition of semi-isolation that they considered ideal. For others it was the definitive step towards a necessary process of development and integration.

The growth that followed led the provincial authorities to grant Don Torcuato city status in September 1974. At that time it had a population of approximately 70,000 inhabitants, maintaining its characteristic atmosphere of a refuge for rest combined with the productive and commercial activities of its people: from that moment on, with the progressive integration with the other Tigrean localities and, finally, with the arrival of progress, Don Torcuato has been adapting its Quintero profile for a new one, more urban if It is loved but does not lose its traditional charm and adds an increasingly competent infrastructure.

The oldest residents of the place maintain that the essence of the town can still be breathed in this urban center that today has 100,000 inhabitants and that has known how to diversify its activities in keeping with the current times.

The construction of gated communities exploded in the 1990s, and the expansion of Route 202 and the renovation of the Pan-American Highway contributed to it.

In many cases, the areas of villas, which do not have the layout or operation of private neighborhoods - and which mostly surround the Hindu Club golf course - have well-defined limits, have security and access there for a single entrance.

For the residents of these and other urbanizations, Don Torcuato offers comforts and services of a very good level. Needless to say, the renovated Panamericana makes access and exit for families a quick and simple operation. Another important point is that Torquata's educational offer is as good as that of other more developed urban centers; Bank branches and a varied commercial proposal complete a scheme in which tranquility and services are combined.

Don Torcuato was founded on November 13, 1927, approving an Ordinance signed by Oscar Milberg (president of the Commune) and Juan Carlos Bernasconi (Secretary). This is done in homage to the first Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires, Don Torcuato de Alvear.

Within the history of this town, 'El Molino' stands out. (recently collapsed) and the old "Palomar de Bancalari" founded by Don Miguel Bancalari (who died in 1893) who was married to Rosalía Rissoto and had two children: Augusto and Horacio.

The flour mill, near the Reconquista River, over time became a railway signal cabin and later, in 1931, RN 202 was inaugurated, placing barriers for the 'Bancalari' railway stop;.

The first settler in the Don Torcuato area was Teófilo Arricau, from Los Polvorines, whose main activity was dairy farming. Don Teófilo died on December 7, 1939 at the age of 70. His funeral in San Miguel was led by the former president of the Republic Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear.

The first municipal delegate of Don Torcuato was Juan Pedro Echeverría, appointed on November 3, 1927, on the same date the first Police Detachment was inaugurated by agent Sixto Carrizo, and the first school was number 22, of the August 22, 1927.

On August 7, Vialidad Nacional inaugurates the road that connects General Pacheco with Don Torcuato (today Avenida Boulogne Sur Mer), it was in 1937. In its history it had Aircom, the Don Torcuato International Airport, a private entity that had a record of daily takeoffs and landings of small aircraft, had workshops and twelve flight schools. It was closed and stopped operating during the N. Kirchner government.

The Hunting and Fishing Athletic Club also stands out, which has a good level of basketball, football and tennis.

In this town there are also the "Baires" film studios. (in the neighborhood that bears its name) since 1940, founded by Eduardo Bedoya, filming the most important films there, famous not only in Argentina but also in Latin America. A year later, on September 12, 1941, the A.C.A. (Automóvil Club Argentino) founds its "Aid Station Number 32 "Don Torcuato".

On March 23, 1942 at 11:23 p.m., Dr. Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear died in Don Torcuato.

By law 8,215, decree 6,244, the town of Don Torcuato was declared a city on September 18, 1974.

Toponymy

It is named in honor of the first mayor of the City of Buenos Aires Torcuato de Alvear, father of Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of the Republic. Most of the streets bear the first names of his closest relatives and collaborators of his government.

Geography

Climate

Average climate parameters of Don Torcuato, Buenos Aires
Month	Ene.	Feb.	Mar.	Open up.	May.	Jun.	Jul.	Ago.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
Average temperature (°C)	30.8	28.8	26.5	22.6	18.8	15.7	15.3	17.2	19.1	22.5	25.4	28.1	22.6
Average temperature (°C)	25.1	23.4	21.1	17.4	13.4	10.8	10.5	12.3	14.1	17.3	20.3	22.6	17.4
Temp. medium (°C)	20.5	19.2	16.7	13.2	9.0	6.9	6.6	9.4	12.3	12.6	15.5	18.2	13.3
Total precipitation (mm)	106.6	120.3	117.6	99.5	78.8	49.2	45.3	63.9	63.8	168.3	97.0	83.0	1093.3
Days of precipitation (≥)	7	9	8	8	7	6	6	8	7	11	9	9	95
Relative humidity (%)	65	71	74	78	77	79	78	75	73	71	69	67	73.1
Source: SMN Argentina, average 1981 - 1990

Infrastructure

Don Torcuato is a town that was greatly behind in terms of infrastructure with respect to neighboring municipalities for years, although it is worth highlighting the work of Accountant Ricardo Ubieto in charge of the Municipality of Tigre for four terms until his death in 2006 representing a Neighborhood Party, under which the city underwent a fundamental change, building the San Martín and Aviadores de Malvinas squares, remodeling the Alvear Square, paving more than 65% of the streets, and maintaining their state in optimal condition, the Health Center, three Kindergartens, two Sports Complexes were also built, sodium gas lighting was installed throughout the city, access was improved and National Route 202 was landscaped. Today the city has begun the works on its sewage system, and has 72.8% of its streets paved.

Railway

Neighborhoods

The recent demographic development in the city has led to the division into different neighborhoods, among which the following stand out:

Hindu Quarter

Located on the grounds of the famous Hindu Club where two neighborhoods are distinguished, the "Vistas del golf", to the south of the property, which is closed, and the "Hindu Neighborhood" to the west of the property, which is partially closed.

Aviation Quarter

Located in the surroundings of the former Don Torcuato International Airport. It gets its name from being the place where the people who formerly worked at the airport lived. Having closed it, it left numerous industries established, corresponding to the airport infrastructure that still function; constituting the city as a hub providing inputs for the small and medium-scale aeronautical industry.

Los Dados neighborhood

Located around the building of an old bar, shaped like dice. About Colectora Panamericana - Calle Burgos (in front of the Belgrano Avenue bridge), 1611 Don Torcuato. This building today is a disco called La Noche disco club. The old bar called Los Dados referenced its name because architecturally it represented 5 dice with their supposed numbering on its facades and a cup on its top (source - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Los_Dados_2.jpg).

Tte neighborhood. 1st Ibáñez

Previously belonging to the Hindu neighborhood and located on its boundaries, it belongs to the area between the Belgrano railroad tracks, Av. Alvear, av. San Martín and the Basualdo stream. The country houses and residences of mostly rustic and colonial style predominate. The neighborhood gets its name from the San Juan military climber Francisco Ibáñez, the first Argentine to climb over 8,000 meters in altitude, on an expedition to Mount Dhaulagiri in the Himalayas.

Gutiérrez neighborhood

Built in the mid-1960s, it is delimited by Alem streets, Av. San Martín, av. Belgrano and Reconquista. It had its own running water network managed by a neighborhood cooperative called "COOPAGUA", and a new school building for the previous School no. 37 Named after Ricardo Güiraldes, its architecture is similar in almost all its buildings: low houses, double-pitched colonial-style tile roofs, with the exception of five buildings, two 7 m high and three 9 m high, on their beginnings managed by a housing cooperative called "COODEPRO", now defunct.

Solana del Monte neighborhood

Delimited by the streets: Santa María de Oro, Boquerón, Rubén Darío, Italia and Av. del Trabajo, it is one of the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Torquata, in the past it was characterized by being a neighborhood with a low-income population, it began to populated in the 1960s, the streets were completely dirt and as they were surrounded by Campo de Mayo and the high lands of other neighborhoods of Don Torcuato, they earned the nickname of "el Bajo 26" (because it is at kilometer 26 of the Belgrano Norte railway route) since the neighborhood gave the impression that it was "sunk" In a well.

Nowadays the streets are paved, the 723 bus route has been extended, there is a lot of lighting and there are practically no vestiges of that marginal neighborhood from the 1980s and 1990s.

Baires neighborhood

In the eastern part of the Don Torcuato Pan-American Highway, is the Baires neighborhood, since it developed around the legendary Baires Film Studios, famous for several Argentine artists passing through there, such as Libertad Lamarque, Eva Duarte, Alberto Olmedo, among others. This neighborhood borders, on Blandengues Street, with the Reconquista Neighborhood, therefore, they are two historic neighborhoods, and one of the first that the City of Don Torcuato had.

Reconquista neighborhood

In the years 1963, it began to take shape as a neighborhood and some founding residents of the Reconquista neighborhood settled in, there were only very few merchants and residents dedicated to the dairy. The neighbors can be cited as founding settlers: Alario, Gallo, López, Garcia, Taborda, Flores, Ponce. Its Geographical Location Triangle to the east of the Panamericana, delimited between Blandengues streets, 9 de Julio and Ruta 202, is a triangle that houses a population of more than 23,000 citizens of different nationalities according to the last census. It is remembered that the area does not It was inhabited since it was a constant lagoon, therefore it was always a floodable area due to rain and overflowing of the Reconquista River.

Hindu Club

The Hindu Club, founded in 1919 and present in the city since 1935, is a multiple URBA rugby champion, as well as standing out in other disciplines such as women's hockey, golf, soccer and tennis.

Neighborhoods on Maps

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Parishes of the Catholic Church in Don Torcuato