Villa Urquiza | |
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![]() Location of Villa Urquiza within Buenos Aires | |
Country | Argentina |
Autonomous City | Buenos Aires |
Comuna | C12 |
Area | |
• Total | 5.6 km2 (2.2 sq mi) |
Population (2001) | |
• Total | 89,360 |
• Density | 16,000/km2 (41,000/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-3 (ART) |
Villa Urquiza is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located between the barrios of Villa Pueyrredón, Belgrano, Villa Ortúzar, Coghlan, Saavedra and Agronomía. Its limits are the streets and avenues Constituyentes, Crisólogo Larralde, Galván, Núñez, Tronador, Roosevelt, Rómulo S. Naón and La Pampa.
It is a residential neighborhood with both old houses and apartment buildings, quiet streets and a few crowded, high-traffic avenues. It has several parks that make it very pleasant. During the summer, it is not uncommon to see neighbors comfortably sitting on chairs on the sidewalk, chatting with each other.
It is also home of several institutions of importance to the Buenos Aires culture, such as the tango and milonga ballrooms Sunderland and Club Sin Rumbo, Argentine rock pioneer Litto Nebbia's Melopea Records, and the winner of three in a row futsal metropolitan tournaments, Club Pinocho.[1]