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7 unusual facts about Bahía Blanca


Aérospatiale Alouette III

On 2 December 2010, the last example was retired at a ceremony held at BAN Comandante Espora, Bahía Blanca.

Antonio María Rouco Varela

Antonio Rouco Varela was born in Vilalba to Vicente Rouco and María Eugenia Varela, the latter of whom hailed from Bahía Blanca, Argentina.

German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin

The British freighter Domingo de Larrinaga was on her way from Bahía Blanca to Newcastle with 7,000 tons of grain and a crew of 36.

León Najnudel

The new nationwide league allowed basketball to grow in cities other than Buenos Aires, like in Bahía Blanca and Córdoba, that became important basketball centers.

Paul Gallez

Paul Gallez (1920–2007) was an Argentinian cartographer and historian, born in Brussels, and based on the city of Bahía Blanca, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Raquel Partnoy

She studied at an art school in that city but it was after she got married and moved to the southern port city of Bahía Blanca in1954, that she attended for several years the Buenos Aires’s workshop of the influential Argentine painter and teacher Demetrio Urruchúa.

Solvay Indupa

It relocated operations to the petrochemical center in Bahía Blanca in 1986; but an economic crisis in subsequent years forced it into government receivership in 1993.


2011 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship

The 2011 FIVB Volleyball Boys' Youth World Championship was held in Almirante Brown and Bahía Blanca, Argentina from 19 to 28 August 2011.

Bahía Blanca Partido

The provincial subdivision holds a population of 284,776 inhabitants in an area of 2,300 km² (888 sq mi), and its capital city is Bahía Blanca, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.

Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway

The company and its subsidiaries owned and operated many ancillary services including grain handling facilities, an experimental fruit farm at Cinco Saltos in the Rio Negro valley, a power station in Bahía Blanca, the Argentine Fruit Distributors Company, the Club Hotel de la Ventana, the Condor long distance coach company, and a hotel with an adjoining golf course in Miramar.

Carlos Walter Galán Barry

As a bishop he was principal consecrator of Guillermo José Garlatti, archbishop of Bahía Blanca, and Martín de Elizalde, bishop of Nueve de Julio.

Esteban María Laxague

Then he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Viedma on October 21, 2002 by HH Pope John Paul II taking over on a formal Mass on December 21, 2002 being ordained Bishop by Monsignor Marcelo Angiolo Melani and his co consecrators: Monsignor Agustín Roberto Radrizzani and Monsignor Jorge Mayer -then Archbishop Emeritus of Bahía Blanca-.

He was ordained Priest on May 10, 1982 after which he stayed in Neuquén and Bahía Blanca becoming Director of School "La Piedad", belonging to the Order of the Salesians until 1990 when he was appointed Director of Colegio Don Bosco in the same city of Bahía Blanca.

Hugo Manuel Salaberry Goyeneche

Salaberry Goyeneche received his episcopal consecration on the following August 21 from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, the later pope Francis, with bishop emeritus of Azul, Emilio Bianchi di Cárcano, and archbishop of Bahía Blanca, Guillermo José Garlatti, serving as co-consecrators.

Scelidotherium

In his journal of The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin reports the finding of a nearly perfect fossil Scelidotherium in Punta Alta while travelling overland from Bahía Blanca to Buenos Aires in 1832.

TeleKommando

TeleKommando Scherz is actually formed by Nacho Durán (Oviedo, Spain), Mariana Rillo (Bahía Blanca, Argentina), George Queiroz (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Dirk Böll (Essen, Germany), Alessandra Cestac (São Paulo, Brazil) and Camilla Ribas (Sao Paulo, Brazil), working with video, design, photography, programming, vjing, djing, performance and urban intervention.


see also

Ferrosur Roca

The branch from Bahia Blanca to Zapala serves the commercially important Rio Negro fruit-growing region.

George Mayer

Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina