Argentina - City of Tigre and its rowing clubs
The city of Tigre is located 30 Km northwest from Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina, in the area of encounter of two geographic systems: the plains known as “pampa ondulada” (undulated pampa) and the delta of the Parana River. In relation with the former, Tigre is located in the low lands crossed by water streams that flow into the Plata River; all this generating wetlands and flood areas. This situation has had an impact on the urban structure and morphology and on the functions that have characterised the town from its very beginning onwards. The urban area surrounded by the Tigre, Luján and Reconquista rivers is the result of the human action on a specific natural environment over four hundred years. The origin of the town is related to the natural port where, over the colonial period (late 16th to 18th centuries), the agricultural production coming from the islands of the Paraná delta where dispatched for consumption in Buenos Aires. The presence of rivers and streams are the basis for an attractive landscape for leisure; the arrival of the railway in 1865 facilitated the arrival of visitors from Buenos Aires and Tigre became one of the first tourism destinations in the country at the end of the 19th Century. It also became the ideal place for water sports, especially rowing. Over the last decades of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th, many vacations villas were erected in the town itself and in the neighbouring islands. The construction of the Tigre Hotel, demolished in 1941, and of its complementary Tigre Club reinforced the vocation of the town as an important tourism and excursion destination.
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