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Bahía Blanca is the principal city in the Greater Bahía Blanca area. The city has an important seaport with a depth of 15 m (49 ft), kept constant upstream almost all along the length of the bay, where the Napostá Stream drains. Bahía Blanca means "White Bay". The name is due to the color of the salt covering the local soil surrounding the ...
The lighthouse, Faro Recalada a Bahia Blanca, 73 m (240 ft) high and the tallest in South America, is situated on the coastal road to Sauce Grande about 7 km (4 mi) east of the resort, where it marks the route to the nearby port of Bahía Blanca.
Channel 9 of Bahía Blanca began broadcasting on August 15, 1965, although its official inauguration was on September 24. The channel, which at that time was operated commercially as Telenueva, was founded by the same newspaper. [2] In 1971, the LU 80 license was re-awarded to the company Telenueva SA. [3]
The Bahía Blanca and North Western Railway (Spanish: Ferrocarril Bahía Blanca al Noroeste) was a British-owned railway company that operated in Argentina.The original project was the rail line to run through the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba and San Luis, tracks were only extended to Toay in La Pampa [3] and Huinca Renancó in Córdoba. [4]
The Partido de Bahía Blanca is a partido of the Buenos Aires Province is located at the south-west of the province in central Argentina at coordinates . The provincial subdivision holds a population of 284,776 inhabitants in an area of 2,300 km 2 (888 sq mi), and its capital city is Bahía Blanca, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.
Recalada a Bahía Blanca Light, also known as Monte Hermoso Light or simply Recalada Light (lit. landfall ), is an active lighthouse in Monte Hermoso , Buenos Aires Province , Argentina , marking the entrance to the Bahía Blanca .
Bahía Blanca means "White Bay". The name is due to the typical colour of the salt covering the soil surrounding the shores. The bay (which is actually an estuary) was seen by Ferdinand Magellan during his first circumnavigation of the world on the orders of Charles I of Spain, in 1520, looking for a canal connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean along the coasts of South America.
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