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The airport was named after Brigadier General Bartolomé de la Colina [ es], one of the founders of the Argentine Air Force. In August 2008 it was renamed in honour of composer and musician Ástor Piazzolla, who was born in Mar del Plata. [5] The airport covers an area of 436 hectares (1,080 acres) [2] and is operated by Aeropuertos Argentina 2000.
Aerolíneas Argentinas was formed by the Argentine's Ministry of Transport as a state corporation in May 1949, when it took over the routes and assets of four struggling airlines. [1][2] A year and a half later, in late December 1950, the company introduced the Buenos Aires – Rio de Janeiro – Natal – Dakar – Lisbon –Paris– Frankfurt ...
Mar del Plata is the second largest city in Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" is short for "Mar del Rio de la Plata," and has the meaning of "sea of the Rio de la Plata basin" or "adjoining sea to the (River) Plate region". [1] Mar del Plata is one of the major fishing ports and the biggest seaside beach resort in Argentina
Provincial Route 11 is a 583-kilometre-long (362 mi) Argentine road in the East of Buenos Aires Province. The road extends from Punta Lara (starting in the junction with PR 19) to the town of Mar del Sur. [ 1] Route 11 runs along the coasts of the Río de la Plata and the Atlantic Ocean, with a high number of car passing the road during summertime.
History of Mar del Plata. Paseo General Paz, February 1904. The first European navigator to visit the beaches and cliffs of what one day would become Mar del Plata was Sir Francis Drake in his 1577 circumnavigation voyage. He introduced the name Cape Lobos in the cartography of his time, due to the large colony of sea lions (lobos de mar in ...
Highways in Argentina. National Route 1, also known as Buenos Aires–La Plata Highway and officially called Autopista Doctor Ricardo Balbín since 2004, is a highway that connects the 25 de Mayo Highway and Paseo del Bajo in the city of Buenos Aires with the Provincial Route 11, near the city of La Plata. It has a length of 50 km (31 mi) with ...
Aerolíneas Argentinas, formally Aerolíneas Argentinas S.A., [4] is the state-owned flag carrier of Argentina, [5] and the country's largest airline. [6] The airline was created in 1949, from the merger of Aeroposta Argentina (AA), Aviación del Litoral Fluvial Argentino (ALFA), Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina (FAMA), and Zonas Oeste y Norte de Aerolíneas Argentinas (ZONDA), and started ...
For routes from the EU, UK, Switzerland, Iceland and Norway to other countries inside Europe except to Turkey, the busiest was in 2019 Paris/CDG – Moscow/Sheremetyevo with 830,980. Busiest flight routes in or from Europe by city pairs