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Mercado Libre was founded on August 2, 1999 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [8] [6] Founder and CEO Marcos Galperin established the company while attending Stanford University.He acquired funding from John Muse, co-founder of HM Capital Partners.
Marcos Eduardo Galperin was born on 31 October 1971 in the capital city of Buenos Aires to a wealthy family of Jewish descent. [2] The fourth of five sons to Ernesto and Silvia Julia Galperin (née Lebach), his family owned SADESA, one of the largest leather companies in the world.
Buenos Aires (/ ˌ b w eɪ n ə s ˈ ɛər iː z / or /-ˈ aɪ r ɪ s /; [11] Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbwenos ˈajɾes] ⓘ) [12] [b] is the capital city of Argentina, on the western shore of the Río de la Plata on South America's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" is Spanish for "fair winds" or "good airs".
Map of Argentina Buenos Aires, ... San Isidro (Buenos Aires) 45,190; Palpala (Jujuy) 45,077; Alphabetical order by province. Buenos Aires Province
The Buenos Aires Central Business District is the main commercial centre of Buenos Aires, Argentina, though not an official city ward.While the barrios of Puerto Madero and Retiro house important business complexes and modern high-rise architecture, the area traditionally known as Microcentro (Spanish: Microcenter) is located within San Nicolás and Monserrat, roughly coinciding with the area ...
Mataderos is the site of the 34 hectares (84 acres) Mercado de Liniers (the National Cattle Ranchers' Market), established in 1900, where up to 50,000 cattle are sold weekly to supply the beef market for the Greater Buenos Aires area; its headquarters, an Italianate arcade completed in 1899, also houses the Museo de los Corrales Viejos (Old ...
Buenos Aires, the autonomous city and capital of Argentina, is composed of 48 neighbourhoods (locally known as barrios).Since 2008, the city is also legally divided into communes (comunas), each one including one or more barrios.
The Obelisco de Buenos Aires (Obelisk of Buenos Aires) is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires. Located in the Plaza de la República in the intersection of avenues Corrientes and 9 de Julio , it was erected in 1936 to commemorate the quadricentennial of the first foundation of the city .