La Chacarita Cemetery

Cementerio de la Chacarita
Details
Established	1887
Location	Buenos Aires
Country	Argentina
Type	Public
Size	95 hectares (230 acres)

Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is known as the National Cemetery and is the largest in Argentina.

Location[]

The cemetery is in the barrio or district of Chacarita, in the western part of Buenos Aires. Its main entrance is on Avenida Guzmán.

History[]

The cemetery owes its existence to a yellow fever epidemic in 1871, when existing cemeteries were strained beyond capacity (the upscale La Recoleta Cemetery refused to allow the burial of victims of the epidemic). Students of the College of San Carlos appropriated 5 hectares (12 acres) in the adjoining Colegiales area for this purpose, but had their facility closed by the city in 1886. The New Chacarita Cemetery began to function in 1887 and was formally designated as such in 1896.

Chacarita Cemetery has designated areas for members of the Argentine artistic community, including writers, prominent composers and actors. The late Justicialist leader and former President Juan Perón was buried here until his remains were relocated in 2006 to a mausoleum in his former home in San Vicente.

Historical archives

French Philanthropic Society pantheon

Spanish-Argentine Mutual Society pantheon

Crematorium

Galician Center pantheon

British and German Cemeteries[]

German Cemetery, main gates

In the 19th century a large number of Britons came to Argentina to work in the many areas of the economy in which England then had extensive interests. At first the British Cemetery was founded beside the Socorro Chapel (started 1821 - authorized on 22 February 1822). In 1833 the cemetery had to move to what was then called Victoria Cemetery (today the "Plaza 1° de Mayo") until November, 1892, when they were asked by the Municipality to move. Section 16 of the Chacarita Cemetery was given in exchange for the Victoria Cemetery. Eventually in 1913 the Cementerio Británico (English: British Cemetery) (or so called "De Disidentes or Corporación del Cementerio Británico de Bs. As.") was divided into the German and the British cemeteries as we know them today, because the two local communities had grown since the beginning of the 19th century.

The British Cemetery and the German Cemetery are today not managed by or part of Chacarita Cemetery.

Notable interments[]

La Chacarita Cemetery[]

Notable burials in La Chacarita cemetery include:

Carlos Acuña (1914–1999), tango singer, composer
Aída Alberti (1915–2006), actress
Alfredo Alcón (1930–2014), actor
Oscar Alemán (1909–1980), jazz musician
José Alonso (trade unionist), (1917–1970)
José Amalfitani (1894–1969), president of the Vélez Sarsfield football team
Alberto Anchart (1931–2011), actor
Cosme Argerich (1758–1820), doctor and pioneer of military field medicine
Manuel Argerich (1835–1871), physician, philosopher, lawyer
Mirta Arlt (1923–2014), writer, professor, translator
Emin Arslan (1868–1943), diplomat, writer, editor
María Lorenza Barreneche (1926–2016), First Lady of Argentina^[1]
Guillermo Battaglia (1899–1988), actor
Nelly Beltrán (1925–2007), actress
Paquita Bernardo (1900–1925), musician, tango composer
Antonio Berni (1905–1981), painter
Eladia Blázquez (1931–2005), tango vocalist and composer
Alejandra Boero (1918–2006), actress
Oscar Bonavena (1942–1976), heavyweight boxer
Ángel Borlenghi (1904–1962), trade-unionist and Peronist politician
Sofía Bozán (1904–1958), actress and tango vocalist
Alfredo Bravo (1925–2003), Socialist politician
Alicia Bruzzo (1945–2007), actress
Clemar Bucci (1920–2011), race car driver
Enrique Cadícamo (1900–1999), author, tango lyricist
Francisco Canaro (1888–1964), tango bandleader and composer
Evaristo Carriego (1883–1912), poet, journalist
Adolfo Castelo (1935–2004), news anchorman
Alberto Castillo (1914–2002), tango singer
Orestes Caviglia (1893–1971), stage director and actor
Cátulo Castillo (1906–1975), musician, composer, poet, boxer
Gustavo Cerati (1959–2014), rock singer, songwriter, composer, producer
José Cibrián (1916–2002), stage director and actor
Pascual Contursi (1888–1932), tango composer
Carlos Cores (1923–2000), actor
Juan d'Arienzo (1900–1976), orchestra leader
Julio de Caro (1899–1980), tango bandleader and composer
Juan de Dios Filiberto (1885–1964), tango composer
Carlos di Sarli (1903–1960), tango bandleader
Guido di Tella (1931–2001), Foreign Minister
Torcuato di Tella (1892–1948), industrialist
Edgardo Donato (1897–1963), tango composer
Vito Dumas (1900–1965), navigator
Ulises Dumont (1937–2008), actor
Samuel Eichelbaum (1894–1967), writer
Homero Expósito (1918–1987), tango lyricist
Ada Falcón (1905–2002), tango vocalist
Edelmiro Farrell (1887–1980), President of Argentina
León Ferrari (1920–2013), conceptual artist
Roberto Firpo (1884–1969), tango composer
Norma Fontenla (1930–1971), prima ballerina
Osvaldo Fresedo (1897–1984), bandoneónist and tango composer
María Rosa Gallo (1925–2004), actress
Leopoldo Galtieri (1926–2003), President of Argentina
Óscar Alfredo Gálvez (1913–1989), race car driver
Carlos Gardel (1890–1935), iconic tango singer, actor
José María Gatica (1925–1963), boxer
Carlos Enrique Gavito (1942–2005), tango dancer
Severino Di Giovanni (1901–1931), Italian anarchist
Enrique Gorriarán Merlo (1941–2006), founder of ERP terrorist group
Roberto Goyeneche (1926–1994), tango singer
Paul Groussac (1848–1929), French-born writer, historian
Bernardo Houssay (1887–1971), Nobel Prize in Medicine
José Ingenieros (1877–1925), physician and philosopher
Maurice Jouvet (1923–1999), French-born actor
Ángel Labruna (1918–1983), soccer player

Lydia Lamaison (1914–2012), actress
Juan Carlos Lectoure (1936–2002), boxing promoter
Inda Ledesma (1926–2010), actress
Alfredo Le Pera (1900–1935), tango composer
Irineo Leguisamo (1903–1985), thoroughbred racing jockey
Antonio Vespucio Liberti (1900–1978), president of the River Plate football team
Nélida Lobato (1934–1982), dancer
María Loredo (1854–1928), faith healer
Gianni Lunadei (1938–1998), actor
Tito Lusiardo (1896–1982), tango dancer
Pedro Maffia (1899–1967), bandoneónist
Agustín Magaldi (1898–1938), tango vocalist
Azucena Maizani (1902–1970), tango vocalist
Homero Manzi (1907–1951), writer and tango composer
Mona Maris (1903–1991), actress
Duilio Marzio (1923–2013), actor
Tita Merello (1904–2002), actress
Alberto Migré (1931–2006), screenwriter
Zully Moreno (1920–1999), actress
Oscar Moro (1948–2006), rock drummer
Jorge Newbery (1875–1914), pioneer aviator, sportsman
Oscar Núñez (1929–2012), actor
Alberto Olmedo (1933–1988), comedian
Juan Carlos Onganía (1914–1995), President of Argentina
Pappo (1950–2005), musician (cremated here, ashes were scattered)
Mario Passano (1925–1995), actor
Malvina Pastorino (1916–1994), actress
Adolfo Pedernera (1918–1995), soccer player
Ivo Pelay (1893–1959), poet, playwright
Pascual Pérez (1926–1977), champion boxer
Nathán Pinzón (1917–1993), actor
Pablo Podestá (1875–1923), actor
Jorge Porcel (1936–2006), comedian
Javier Portales (1937–2003), comedian
Osvaldo Pugliese (1905–1995), pianist
Benito Quinquela Martín (1890–1977), painter
Francisco Rabanal (1906–1982), Mayor of Buenos Aires
Pedro Pablo Ramírez (1884–1962), President of Argentina
Raúl Riganti (1893–1970), race car driver
Edmundo Rivero (1911–1986), tango vocalist
Nélida Roca (1929–1999), dancer
José Ignacio Rucci (1924–1973), trade-unionist
Luis Sandrini (1905–1980), comedian
Enrique Santos Discépolo (1901–1951), tango composer
Enrique Sdrech (1928–2003), journalist
Mohamed Alí Seineldín (1933–2009), mutinous Army officer
Enrique Serrano (1891–1965), actor
Osvaldo Soriano (1943–1997), novelist
Hugo Soto (actor) (1953–1994)
Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), poet
Carlos Thays (1849–1934), landscape designer and urbanist
Juan Carlos Thorry (1908–2000), actor, entertainer
Cacho Tirao (1941–2007), guitarist
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (1924–1978), film director
Lolita Torres (1930–2002), actress, singer
Aníbal Troilo (1914–1975), musician
Saúl Ubaldini (1936–2006), trade-unionist
Augusto Vandor (1923–1969), trade-unionist
Ángel Villoldo (1861–1919), the "father of Tango"
Roberto Viola (1924–1994), President of Argentina
María Elena Walsh (1930–2011), poet and composer
Héctor Yazalde (1946–1997), soccer player
Tincho Zabala (1923–2001), comedian
Marcos Zucker (1921–2003), actor

British Cemetery[]

British Cemetery Chapel

Lucas Bridges (1874–1949), Anglo-Argentine author
Thomas Bridges (1842–1898), Anglican missionary
Frank Brown (1858–1943), popular English clown
Jeannette Campbell (1916–2003), swimmer
Cecilia Grierson (1859–1934), physician and feminist
Alexander Watson Hutton (1853–1936), founder of Argentine Soccer
Juan Bautista Thorne (1807–1885), Army Colonel

German Cemetery[]

Hans Langsdorff (1894–1939), Captain of the World War II pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee
Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005), photographer

Grave of Captain Hans Langsdorff

References[]

^ Cremated at La Chacarita, burial in La Recoleta Cemetery) "Murió María Lorenza Barreneche, la viuda de Raúl Alfonsín". La Nación. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2016-01-10.

External links[]

La Chacarita Cemetery cultural historical heritage rescue webpage by Hernán Santiago Vizzari (in Spanish)
Google Maps
British Cemetery Corporation of Buenos Aires by Eduardo A. Kesting (in Spanish and English)
La Chacarita Cemetery at Find a Grave

Coordinates: 34°35′27″S 58°27′35″W / 34.59083°S 58.45972°W / -34.59083; -58.45972

[lanacion-1] Cremated at La Chacarita, burial in La Recoleta Cemetery) "Murió María Lorenza Barreneche, la viuda de Raúl Alfonsín". La Nación. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2016-01-10.

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