Pontevedra
Pontevedra is a city located in Merlo Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The town was named after the homonymous city of Pontevedra, Spain. Pontevedra was founded in 1871 by real estate promoters, in the estates belonging to the Irish landlord Thomas Gahan, member of Merlo's first municipal government in 1865.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 32,800 residents
- Description: city in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Also known as: “Pontevedra, Buenos Aires” and “Pontevedra, Buenos Aires Province”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Veinte de Junio and Parque San Martín.
Veinte de Junio
Village
Photo: Tanatos02, Public domain.
Veinte de Junio is a town located 35 km from Buenos Aires, in La Matanza, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Veinte de Junio is an outback sleepy rural town, relatively isolated from the rest of the Greater Buenos Aires. Veinte de Junio is situated 3½ km southwest of Pontevedra.
Parque San Martín
Suburb
Photo: Ulises Icardi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Parque San Martín is a city located in Merlo Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Parque San Martín was founded around 1948 by real estate promoters, in the estates belonging to the Etcheverry family. Parque San Martín is situated 7 km northwest of Pontevedra.
Mariano Acosta
Town
Photo: Tanatos02, Public domain.
Mariano Acosta is a city located in Merlo Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Mariano Acosta was founded by the landholder and businessman Juan Posse in the earliest 20th century, and for years the town was known as Villa Posse. Mariano Acosta is situated 9 km west of Pontevedra.
Pontevedra
- Categories: city of Argentina and locality
- Location: Merlo, Buenos Aires, Pampas, Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-34.74979° or 34° 44′ 59″ southLongitude
-58.70178° or 58° 42′ 6″ westPopulation
32,800Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)Open location code
48Q3772X+37OpenStreetMap ID
node 198411541OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3429902Wikidata ID
Q2170773
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Pontevedra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بونتيفيدرا”
- Asturian: “Pontevedra, Buenos Aires Province”
- Cebuano: “Pontevedra”
- Chinese: “蓬特韋德拉”
- Dutch: “Pontevedra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بونتيفيدرا”
- Esperanto: “Pontevedra”
- French: “Pontevedra”
- Galician: “Pontevedra, Buenos Aires”
- Italian: “Pontevedra”
- Persian: “پونتهودرا”
- Portuguese: “Pontevedra”
- South Azerbaijani: “پونتهودرا”
- Spanish: “Pontevedra”
- Swedish: “Pontevedra”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pontevedra”. Photo: Tanatos02, Public domain.