General Lavalle is a town located in the east of the province

Provinces of Argentina

Argentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city...

 of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires Province

The Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. It's the head of the partido

Departments of Argentina

Departments form the second level of administrative division in the provinces of Argentina. There are no departments in the city of Buenos Aires, which has so far been divided into neighbourhoods as its administrative divisions, but is to be divided now into communes by a recently passed local act...

of General Lavalle

General Lavalle Partido

General Lavalle Partido is the easternmost partido of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.The provincial subdivision has a population of about 3,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is General Lavalle, which is located from Buenos Aires....

, and the General Lavalle municipality. It has a population of 3,046 (. The town, partido, and municipality, are named after Juan Lavalle

Juan Lavalle

Juan Galo de Lavalle was an Argentine military and political figure.-Biography:Lavalle was born in Buenos Aires to María Mercedes González Bordallo and Manuel José de La Vallée y Cortés, general accountant of rents and tobacco for the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.In 1799, the family moved to...

 (1797-1841), who was a military and political figure in the early years of the Argentine state.

The city is about a two hour drive from Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

 Ministro Pistarini International Airport

Ministro Pistarini International Airport

Ministro Pistarini International Airport , more commonly known as Ezeiza International Airport owing to its location within the Ezeiza Partido in the Greater Buenos Aires, is an international airport located south-southwest of Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina...

. On the shores of the Río de Ajo river, which flows from the interior of the province to the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...

, it has deep-waters port close to the sea.