Parque Patricios is a barrio located on the southern side of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina

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...

 belonging to the fourth comuna.

Parque Patricios underwent a transformation during the beginning of the 1900's. The government moved the main slaughterhouse to Mataderos

Mataderos

Mataderos is a barrio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, belonging to the 9th comuna .Located in the west end of the city, its name stem from the livestock market and slaughterhouses ....

, removed refuse piles and the notorious trash incinerators ("la quema") and the cemetery used during the 1871 yellow fever

Yellow fever

Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. The virus is a 40 to 50 nm enveloped RNA virus with positive sense of the Flaviviridae family....

 epidemic, now Parque Ameghino. Parks, a zoo and hospitals were put in their place. Parque Patricios received its name from the park of the same name, designed by Carlos Thays

Carlos Thays

Carlos Thays was a French-Argentine landscape architect, and a student of French landscape architect Édouard André.-Biography:...

, the French architect who designed many of the most distinctive parks in the north of the city including the Botanical Garden

Botanical garden

A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...

 and Bosques de Palermo.
This barrio features many hospitals which treat patients from all parts of Argentina, as well as the notorious former Caseros Prison

Caseros Prison

The Caseros Prison was a panopticon prison in Parque Patricios, a neighborhood in the southern part of Buenos Aires, Argentina.Caseros Prison was conceived by the military dictatorships of the 1960s, originally intended as a short term holding station for prisoners awaiting trial. It was built...

, whose demolition is being used by artist Seth Wulsin

Seth Wulsin

Seth Wulsin is an artist working primarily with space and light through large-scale, site-specific, ephemeral sculpture and drawing....

 as the raw materials for a dynamic sculpture. http://www.pagina12.com.ar/imprimir/diario/suplementos/espectaculos/2-3236-2006-07-27.html It is also the home of Club Atlético Huracán

Club Atlético Huracán

Club Atlético Huracán is a sports club from the Parque Patricios neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, the second level of the Argentine football league system. Huracán home stadium is the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó.Huracán was...

, a First Division

Primera División Argentina

The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...

 football team, and their stadium Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó

Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó

Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó is a stadium in Argentina. It is located in the Parque Patricios neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Argentine football club Huracán owns this stadium, which was built thanks to the support of the Argentinian Army, especially due to the efforts of Tomás Ducó....

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Parque Patricios is bordered by barrios Barracas

Barracas

Barracas is a barrio, or district, in the southeast part of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located between the railroad of Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano and the Riachuelo River, and the streets Regimiento de Patricios, Defensa, Caseros, Vélez Sársfield, Amancio Alcorta, Lafayette,...

 and Nueva Pompeya

Nueva Pompeya

Nueva Pompeya is a neighbourhood in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Located in the South side, it has long been one of the city's proletarian districts steeped in the tradition of tango and one where many of the first tangos were written and performed....

 on the South, Constitución

Constitución

Constitución is Spanish for "constitution" and may refer to:Geography*Argentina**Barrio Constitución, a neighborhood in central Buenos Aires, where the Constitución train station is located....

 on the East, San Cristóbal

San Cristóbal, Buenos Aires

San Cristóbal is a barrio of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.The Line E goes under the San Juan Avenue.- External links :*...

 on the North, and Boedo

Boedo

Boedo is a working class barrio of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The neighborhood and one of its principal streets were named after Mariano Boedo, a leading figure in the Argentine independence movement....

 on the West.

It is referred to in several tango lyrics. Most notably, "the blacksmith's corner" in the tango Sur is the corner of Inclán and Loria streets.

External links

• Parque Patricio´s blog