Avellaneda
[key], city, Buenos Aires prov., E central Argentina, across the Riachuelo River from the
Buenos Aires federal district. It is one of the most important industrial, commercial, and
transportation centers in the country. The city, which grew in the first half of the 19th
cent., was formerly called Barracus al Sur but was renamed (1904) after Nicolás
Avellaneda, an Argentine president. Migrants demonstrated in Juan Peron's behalf in 1945; they
requested that he return from exile.
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