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Buenos
Aires was founded twice:
The first foundation was in 1536. Don Pedro de Mendoza,
a Spanish colonizer, established the first settlement.
He named it Ciudad del Espíritu Santo y Puerto
Santa María del Buen Ayre. The second, and final,
foundation was in 1580. Juan de Garay called the site
Ciudad de Trinidad.
In the 19th. century, the port was the arrival point
for the great migratory wave promoted by the Argentine
State to populate the nation. Spanish, Italian, Syrian-Lebanese,
Polish and Russian immigrants provided Buenos Aires
with the cultural eclecticism that is so characteristic
of the city.
During the 20th. century, successive immigrations -
from the provinces, other Latin American countries and
Eastern countries - completed the picture of Buenos
Aires as a cosmopolitan city in which people with different
cultures and religions live together. |
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