Mataderos is a barrio (neighbourhood) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is one of the three barrios that make up the Comuna 9, alongside Liniers and Parque Avellaneda. Located in the south-west end of the city, it takes its name from the livestock market and various slaughterhouses located within it.
Gauchos at the annual Mataderos Fair
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El Resero, a monument to the herdsmen that wrangle the thousands of cattle sold daily at the Liniers Market.
Jacarandas in bloom, Alberdi Park.
San Vicente, Buenos Aires
San Vicente is a town and administrative centre of San Vicente Partido, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The southernmost town in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, San Vicente is 48 km (30 mi) from downtown Buenos Aires, and can be accessed from Constitución Station by bus via Line 79 or a 20-minute drive by Provincial Route 58 from Ezeiza International Airport. The city has about 21,000 inhabitants per the 2001 census [INDEC].
San Vicente, Buenos Aires
Family playing bocce in San Vicente, c. 1902
The General Roca Line station in San Vicente operated between 1928 and 1978
Arguably the town's best-known residents, Evita and Juan Perón relax in their San Vicente ranch in 1950
