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Avellaneda -- Encyclopædia Britannica (552 words) |
 | formerly Barracas Al Sur (Spanish: Huts to the South), cabecera (principal built-up area) and partido (political subdivision) of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, Argentina, immediately southeast of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires province, on the Río de la Plata estuary. |
| In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the area was an industrial slum, slaughterhouse, and port district, separated... |
| The Cuban poet and playwright Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda is considered one of the foremost Romantic writers of the 19th century and one of the greatest women poets. |
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