Florencio Varela is a partido

Departments of Argentina

Departments form the second level of administrative division in the provinces of Argentina. There are no departments in the city of Buenos Aires, which has so far been divided into neighbourhoods as its administrative divisions, but is to be divided now into communes by a recently passed local act...

 located in the south of Gran Buenos Aires urban area in Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires Province

The Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...

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Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

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The partido has an area of 190 km² (73 sq mi) and a population of 423,992 . Its capital is Florencio Varela

Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires

Florencio Varela is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Florencio Varela Partido. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires urban agglomeration....

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Name

The partico is named in honour of Argentine writer and journalist Florencio Varela

Florencio Varela (writer)

Florencio Varela was an Argentine writer, poet, journalist and educator.Florencio was born in Buenos Aires on February 23 1808, he was the sixth child of Don Jacobo Adrián Varela and María de la Encarnación Sanjinés, he had a keen interest in the literary arts from a young age...

 (23 February 1807 - 20 March 1848).

Districts

List of Districts in the partido, and their population

• Bosques (51,663)
• Estanislao Severo Zeballos (20,967)
• Florencio Varela
  Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires
  Florencio Varela is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Florencio Varela Partido. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires urban agglomeration....
  
  (120,678)
• Gobernador Julio A. Costa (49,291)
• Ingeniero Juan Allan (26,602)
• Villa Brown (6,034)
• Villa San Luis (10,234)
• Villa Santa Rosa (22,017)
• Villa Vatteone (35,985)
• La Capilla (5,499)

External links

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