Settlement Type: | City |
Official Name: | Glew |
Pushpin Map: | Argentina Greater Buenos Aires |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Buenos Aires Province |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 240 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Partido |
Subdivision Name2: | Almirante Brown |
Population Total: | 57,878 |
Coordinates: | -34.8833°N -81°W |
Elevation M: | 28 |
Postal Code Type: | CPA Base |
Postal Code: | B 1856 |
Area Code: | +54 11-2224 |
Website: | www.almirantebrown.gov.ar |
Glew is a city in southern Almirante Brown Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its municipal area of 17.652NaN2 holds a population of 57,878 . It is located 340NaN0 from Buenos Aires city, and connected to it by the Ferrocarril General Roca.
The city originated with the purchase of the land in 1857 by Juan Glew, who established an estancia there. He donated land for the extension of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway in 1865, and a permanent settlement was founded at the site on August 14 by the name of Pueblo Cambaceres (in honor of Antonio Cambaceres, a distinguished writer and legislator who owned an adjacent lot).
The Parish of St. Anne was consecrated in 1905. This small church was chosen in 1953 by a frequent summer visitor, painter Raúl Soldi, for the creation of a series of murals, and on his initiative, the Fundación Soldi was established in Glew in 1979 for the promotion of the arts.