Villa General Mitre

Villa General Mitre is a neighborhood, or barrio, of Buenos Aires. The ward has a land area of 2.2 km2 (0.85 sq mi), and a population of 36,000. It was named after General Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868, who had died in 1906, two years before the establishment of the barrio. Villa Mitre was developed on land originally purchased by Francisco Ruiz de Gaona during the late colonial era, and he lived there until his death in 1813; Gaona Avenue, located along the ward's so...