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Bahía Blanca (bäē`ä bläng`kä), city (1991 pop. 255,145), Buenos Aires prov., SE Argentina, a port near the head of the Bahía Blanca, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the main commercial center and principal shipping point of the southern Pampa, as well as a rail terminus and an industrial city. A huge import trade is also carried on. Founded as a fortress town in 1828, Bahía Blanca grew with the economic expansion of the southern Pampa in the early 20th cent. The Bernardino Rivadavia library, founded in 1882, is a city landmark. A perochemical complex was built at Bahía Blanca during the late 1970s and early 1980s. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| En anos recientes, Dow Chemical participo en el programa de privatizacion argentino, donde adquirio Petroquimica Bahia Blanca y Polisur. In designing new offices for a firm of lawyers in the city's Bahia Blanca district, the young Cadiz architect, Tomas Carranza, began with the idea of trapping and manipulating this extraordinary light, so that it becomes both a physical source of pleasure and metaphor for enlightenment. The company started operations in Bahia Blanca in 1991 and it constitutes a pioneering business' model in the country. |
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