Nueve de Julio Partido is a 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...

 located in the central north of Buenos Aires Province

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...

 in Argentina

Argentina

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The provincial subdivision has a population of about 46,000 inhabitants in an area of 4,230 km², and its capital city is 9 de Julio

Nueve de Julio, Buenos Aires

Nueve de Julio is a city in Buenos Aires Province, it gives its name to the administrative division of Nueve de Julio Partido.UN/LOCODE is AREJO....

, which is located around 262 km 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...

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Name

The name 9 de Julio, was inspired by July 9, 1816, Argentine Independence Day

Argentine Declaration of Independence

What today is commonly referred as the Independence of Argentina was declared on July 9, 1816 by the Congress of Tucumán. In reality, the congressmen that were assembled in Tucumán declared the independence of the United Provinces of South America, which is still today one of the legal names of the...

, the date that Argentina gained her independence from the Spanish Empire

Spanish Empire

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Settlements

• 9 de Julio
• 12 de Octubre
• Alfredo Demarchi (Estación Facundo Quiroga),
• Carlos María Naón
• Dennehy
• Dudignac
• French, La Niña
• Morea
• Patricios
• Villa Fournier (El Provincial),

External links

• Local Information (Spanish)
• Nueve de Julio Website (Spanish)
• Information about the city
• Official website(Spanish)