Canning, Buenos Aires


Canning is a town in Buenos Aires province, Argentina, divided between the partidos of Esteban Echeverría and Ezeiza, located between the two on Route 52. It is located southwest of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area and is fighting for independence from Ezeiza and E.Echeverría. Canning has had exponential growth due to residential developments and country clubs.

History

The history of Canning goes back to February 8th, 1908 when the company 'General Manuel Belgrano Railway' inaugurated a train station on San Vicente county countryside lands. This train station was built mainly for Cargos and was named as Jorge Canning in memory of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: George Canning.
Next to this train station a small town was founded and as it continues to get bigger, this town took the same name as the train station: Canning.

Population

According to the latest census, it had 8,960 inhabitants of which 6,442 were in Esteban Echeverría and 2,518 in Ezeiza.
Much of the population lives in gated communities.

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