Ovidio Lagos Avenue is a street in Rosario

Rosario

Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....

, Santa Fe Province

Santa Fe Province

The Invincible Province of Santa Fe, in Spanish Provincia Invencible de Santa Fe , is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco , Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero...

, 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 is a one-way avenue

Street name

A street name or odonym is an identifying name given to a street. The street name usually forms part of the address...

 that runs north–south through the center of the city, from the coastal Avenida del Valle by the Paraná River

Paraná River

The Paraná River is a river in south Central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina for some . It is second in length only to the Amazon River among South American rivers. The name Paraná is an abbreviation of the phrase "para rehe onáva", which comes from the Tupi language...

 to the southern limit of the urbanized area.

Ovidio Lagos is the main street in Barrio Pichincha

Barrio Pichincha

Pichincha is a barrio in the city of Rosario, . It is located on the north-east part of the central area of the city, and its limits are Ovidio Lagos Avenue , Francia Avenue , Rivadavia Avenue, and Salta St.The assembling of this barrio was motivated by the growth of the railway lines and the...

, a former red-light district

Red-light district

A red-light district is a part of an urban area where there is a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, adult theaters, etc...

. To the south, it forms one of the limits of Rosario's largest urban park, Parque de la Independencia

Parque de la Independencia

The Parque de la Independencia is a large public park in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located near the geographical center of the city, its limits defined by Moreno Street and three important avenues: Pellegrini Avenue, Ovidio Lagos Avenue, and 27 de Febrero Boulevard...

. It exits Rosario turning into Provincial Route 18 (before National Route 178).

The avenue was formerly named La Plata. It was renamed in 1916 to in honour of politician and journalist Ovidio Lagos

Ovidio Lagos

Ovidio Lagos was an Argentine journalist, businessman and politician.Lagos was born in Buenos Aires in a country torn apart by internal strife...

 (1825–1891), founder and director of La Capital

La Capital

La Capital is a daily Spanish-language newspaper edited and published in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It was founded in 1867 , and it is the oldest Argentine newspaper still in circulation, which has gained it the title of Decano de la Prensa Argentina...

(the oldest still-published newspaper in Argentina).