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Photo of the city taken from Cerro La Movediza.
Tandil is the capital city of the homonymous game, located in the southeast province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the mountain chain Tandilia System. It was founded by Martin Rodriguez in 1823 with the name of Fort Independence.
Its initial population was only four hundred inhabitants, who had to endure the siege of the indigenous population who tried to prevent the occupation of their land.
His current urban core is divided into twenty-five districts. The economy is based on agriculture, livestock and mining. This last is being questioned by environmental organizations that want to prevent the disappearance of the natural mountain landscape.
In recent years there was a significant increase in tourism, which has led to the natural working of this activity, especially at Easter where activities alluding to date.
The weather is nice, no extreme temperatures in summer and winter although there is usually fog in autumn and winter frost. The city has a varied offer of higher education: a university and several tertiary institutes, in addition to several establishments in primary and secondary education.
It is located at coordinates: 37 19'08'S 59A 08'05'O '/' -37.31889, -59.13472, and 180 meters. El Partido de Tandil, which is bounded on the north head matches and Blue Rauch, east to Ayacucho and Balcarce, on the south Loberia matches, Necochea and Benito Juarez, and west by the parties of Blue and Benito Juarez.
The city of Tandil is located 360 km from the city of Buenos Aires, 330 km from the cities of La Plata (capital of the province) and Bahia Blanca and 180 km from the city of Mar del Plata.
According to the last two national censuses, Tandil step 91,101 inhabitants (INDEC, 1991) to 101,010 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001). Currently, according to estimates by the city of Tandil, population around 120,000. However, an estimate a little more moderate, located around the 109,000 inhabitants. mid-2009. For its part, the surface of the game is 4935 kma is located within the field of so-called wet Pampa.
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