Avenida 9 of julio

The Avenida 9 of French Julio ( Avenue of July 9th is an avenue of the city of Buenos Aires, capital of the Argentinian . With its 140 meters of width, it is one broadest of planet. It bears this name in the honor of the Day of Independence Argentina, which was made the July 9th 1816. It is the only street or avenue of the city which does not change a name after having crossed the Avenida Rivadavia (which occurred parallel with the Avenida of Mayo).

Layout

It runs on nearly four kilometers, since the embassy of France in north, until the Plaza Constitución with the south, and this at an approximate distance of one kilometer of the coast of the Río of Plata, which is more or less parallel for him to the east. Its end north constitutes the beginning of the Autopista Arturo Illia , while to the south it is connected with the Autopista 25 of Mayo , which leads to the west of large the Buenos Aires and to the Aeropuerto Internacional Ministro Pistarini , like to the Autopista 9 of Julio , which is in its turn connected to the trunk roads n° 1, towards Plata and n° 2, towards Mar del Plata and south of the province of Buenos Aires.

Tourist places

The principal tourist places along the avenue are, of north in the south:

the embassy of France, that the French government refused to let demolish for the construction of the 9 of Julio, considering that it was about a main work of architecture.
the Teatro Colón
the western end of the street Lavalle, one of the two pedestrian ones of the city.
the Obelisk and the Plaza of República.
the statue of Gift Quijote with the intersection with the Avenida of Mayo.
the building of the Ministry for Social development, the only building which is in the middle of the avenue.
the Constitución station and the Plaza Constitución.

Extreme width

The unusual width of the avenue is due to the structure in checkerwork of the city. The avenue occupies a North-South series of " carrés" of this checkerwork (called manzanas ). The width envisaged was such as it was useless to want to preserve part of the squares where was to pass the avenue. One thus decided to cut down the totality of the squares in question. However those have a width of 110 meters. To the west of the avenue runs the street Carlos Pellegrini (called Bernardo de Irigoyen to the south of the Avenida Rivadavia ) and in the east the street Cerrito is (called street Lima in the south of the Avenida Rivadavia ); these two streets were included automatically in the layout of avenue 9 of julio (they function in practice like sides of the avenue) and are entered like part of this one, which, on the whole, leads to a width of 140 meters.

History

The avenue was planned in 1888 under the name of Ayohuma , but work began only in 1937. The principal section was finished in the years 1960. Connections towards the south were carried out only in 1980, which required massive demolitions in surroundings of Plaza Constitución, combined with the forced removal of thousands inhabitants.

Others

To cross the avenue to foot it is necessary several minutes, since, although there exist light signals with all the crossroads, fires do not remain with the red sufficient time to cross, if one walks to a normal pace. The pedestrian is not yet king in Buenos Aires.

External bonds

Image of Avenida 9 of julio (Google Maps)

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