San Vicente, Buenos Aires
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 San Vicente
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| Coordinates: 35°1′S 58°25′W / 35.017°S 58.417°WCoordinates: 35°1′S 58°25′W / 35.017°S 58.417°W | |
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 Argentina
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| Province |
 Buenos Aires
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| Partido | San Vicente |
| Founded | 1784 |
| Elevation | 25 m (82 ft) |
| Population (2001 census [INDEC]) | |
| • Total | 21,411 |
| CPA Base | B 1865 |
| Area code(s) | +54 2225 |
| Website | Gobierno Municipal San Vicente |
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 30 miles (48 km) 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].
Named in honor of the 14th century Dominican friar Saint Vincent Ferrer, the site was first settled as an Indian Reduction in 1618 by Spanish conquistadores and was initially known as Laguna de la Reducción. Luis Pessoa y Figueroa, a landowner from Magdalena and member of the Buenos Aires Cabildo, bought much of the land south of the San Vicente Lagoon (then known as Laguna del Ojo) in 1696, and his son, Juan Bautista Pessoa, established a small settlement in 1734. A fort, Fortín El Zajón, was built here by the Blandengues cavalry corps in 1750. Luis Pessoa's grandson, Friar Vicente Pessoa, established the area's first Catholic parish in 1781 and on December 30, 1784, the county of Magdalena was formally divided into among two other towns, San Vicente.
The village was made a county seat by the establishment of one of the province's first Justice of the Peace courts in 1822. Governor Juan José Viamonte founded the area's first large estancia, La Martiniana, in 1824, and the subsequent establishment of numerous English Argentine settlers made San Vicente the provincial capital of sheep farming by 1854, with over 558,000 head. Recurrent flooding from surrounding swampland led provincial authorities to propose relocating the town. Local residents rejected the proposal, however, and on January 27, 1856, the Municipality of San Vicente was formally established.
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