10 de octubre de 2012

Places we visited when we was the first day in Buenos Aires

The first day we got to the hotel at 6pm. There we went on our suit which is near the obilic. This day we visited the staduim of Boca Juniors and of River Plate. Also we went to visit the Rioachuelo.

River Plate:


Club Atlético River Plate is a professional Argentine sports club based in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Many sports are practised at the club, River is best known for its professional football team, which won many of the most important football tournaments in the world, including Copa Libertadores, and the Intercontinental Cup.
River is one of the most successful football teams of Argentina, having won the Primera División title a record 34 times. River's last domestic title in Primera División was the 2008 Clausura. In addition, the club won six international titles, five of them obtained by the first team and one by the first team's reserve. These include two Copa Libertadores (both against the same rival, America de Cali of Colombia), one Intercontinental Cup, one Supercopa Sudamericana, one Copa Interamericana and one U-20 Copa Libertadores. River also won eight tournaments organized by AFA and AUF together: six Copa Dr. Ricardo Aldao, one Tie Cup and one Copa de Honor Cousenier River's success in the 1990s led IFFHS to name it ninth in its All-Time Club World Ranking (and first in the Americas)

Boca:
La Boca is a neighborhood, or barrio of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. It retains a strong European flavour, with many of its early settlers being from the Italian city of Genoa. In fact the name has a strong assonance with the Genoese neighborhood of Boccadasse, and some people believe that the Buenos Aires barrio was indeed named after it. The conventional explanation is that the neighborhood sits at the mouth of the Riachuelo.
In 1882, after a lengthy general strike, La Boca seceded from Argentina, and the rebels raised the Genoese flag, which was immediately torn down personally by then President Julio Argentino Roca.
It is known among sports fans for La Bombonera the home of Boca Juniors, one of the world's best known football clubs. La Boca is a popular destination for tourists visiting Argentina, with its colourful houses and pedestrian street, the Caminito, where tango artists perform and tango-related memorabilia is sold. Other attractions include the La Ribera theatre, many tango clubs and Italian taverns.

The Riachuelo:
The Matanza River is known by several names, including, in Spanish, Río de la Matanza ("the slaughter river" in English) Río Matanza ("slaughter river") Río Mataderos ("slaughterhouses river") Río de la Manzana ("the apple river") or simply Riachuelo ("little river" or "brook") It is a 64-kilometre (40 mi) stream in Argentina that originates in the Buenos Aires Province and defines the southern boundary of the Buenos Aires federal district. It empties into the Río de la Plata between Tandanor and Dock Sud. The La Boca neighbourhood and the Boca Juniors football club are located near the Riachuelo's mouth. The Spanish word boca means "mouth".
The river's course has been canalized and channelized in places, especially along its lower course.
Bridge on Riachuelo-Matanza river
From its source down to La Noria Bridge on Avenida General Paz, the river is usually referred to as Río La Matanza, and from that point onwards as Riachuelo. Approximately 3.5 million people live in its drainage basin of 2,240 km2

Bombonera:
The Estadio Alberto J. Armando is a stadium located in the La Boca district of Buenos Aires. Widely known as La Bombonera (Spanish pronunciation: English: the Chocolate Box) due to its shape, with a "flat" stand on one side of the pitch and three steep stands round the rest of the stadium It has a capacity of 49,000.
The stadium is owned by Boca Juniors, one of Argentina's most famous football clubs. The unusual shape of the stadium has led to it having excellent acoustics and the Boca support being nicknamed "La Doce" (The 12th man).
The pitch at La Bombonera is the minimum length required under FIFA regulations - 105m x 68m.



As well as being the home of Boca Juniors the stadium is also used as a concert venue, with the likes of Lenny Kravitz, Elton John, James Blunt, Bee Gees, Backstreet Boys and Cast having performed there.

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