Crucecita is a district of the Avellaneda Partido

Avellaneda Partido

Avellaneda is a partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It has an area of 55.17 km²  and a population of 340,985 . Its capital is the city of Avellaneda....

 in Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires Province

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, Argentina

Argentina

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. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires

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 urban agglomeration

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.

The town is named for the Arroyo de la Crucecita (Crossing Stream) encountered by a 1580 expedition led by Captain Juan de Garay

Juan de Garay

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, the founder of modern-day Buenos Aires

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. The Real Consulado de Buenos Aires ordered a pontoon bridge

Pontoon bridge

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 built over the stream in 1810, and much of the surrounding land later belonged to the Ximenez family. A wave of immigration in Argentina after 1880 led to the southward expansion of the Buenos Aires metro area part Avellaneda

Avellaneda

Avellaneda is a port city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the seat of the Avellaneda Partido, whose population was 328,980 as per the ....

, and the first lots in Crucecita were sold to homesteaders in 1887. Following the inaugural of a Ferrocarril Provincial de Buenos Aires

Ferrocarril Provincial de Buenos Aires

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 station at the site, the Masllorens Brothers factory, a textile maker

Textile industry

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, was inaugurated in Crucesita by immigrants from Barcelona

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. The Club Social y Deportivo Unión de Crucecita, the local football club, was established in 1939. Presidente Bartolomé Mitre Avenue connects the suburb to Avellaneda, to the north, and Sarandí

Sarandí

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, to the south.