| Pinamar | |
| Native Name: | Partido de Pinamar |
| Settlement Type: | Department |
| Image Blank Emblem: | Pinamar partido text logo.png |
| Blank Emblem Type: | Logo |
| Coordinates: | -37.1167°N -108°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Argentina |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | April 11, 1978 |
| Founder: | provincial law 9024 |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Pinamar |
| Leader Party: | PRO |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Juan Ibarguren |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 63 |
| Population Total: | 20666 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Demonym: | pinamarense |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
| Postal Code: | B7167 |
| Postal2 Code Type: | IFAM |
| Postal2 Code: | BUE097 |
| Area Code Type: | Area Code |
| Area Code: | 02254 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Patron saint |
| Blank Info Sec1: | ? |
Pinamar Partido is a partido on the Atlantic coast of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. It limits with La Costa Partido to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the route 11/Interbalnearia to the west, and Villa Gesell Partido to the south.
The provincial subdivision has a population of about 20,000 inhabitants in an area of 63sqkm, and its capital city is Pinamar, which is around 349km (217miles) from Buenos Aires.
The Pinamar Partido was created on July 1, 1978,[1] Until then, the city of Pinamar had been part of General Madariaga Partido.
In the XIX century, the region where the Pinamar Partido stays nowadays was a desertic area plenty of dunes facing the sea. Those dunes constituted the fields called "Los Montes Grandes de Juancho", which belonged to Don Martín de Alzaga, an older man and landowner, who had married Felicitas Guerrero in 1862, a young woman of only 16 years old.[2] They had bought the land from Don Manuel with the aim of designing a sophisticated seaside resort with the same model as that city of Belgian origin whose name, Ostend, means “End of the East”.[2] To go to Ostende, passengers went by train to Juancho station (via Constitución–General Madariaga), then being transported by horse-drawn carriages to "Colonia Tokio" station where they took a narrow-gauge railway (Decauville) to Ostende. It was a 3 km-length railroad that reached the beach.[3] The old path remained as a graved road, and entrances to Pinamar, Cariló, and Valeria del Mar were added.[4] In 1983, its name was changed to "Partido de Pinamar", being formed by the towns of Pinamar, Ostende, Valeria del Mar, and Cariló. In 1993, the town of Mar de Ostende was officially incorporated to Pinamar Partido.
The economy of Pinamar Partido is dominated by the summer tourist season (December–February), which sees hundreds of thousands of Porteños make their way to the Atlantic coast of Buenos Aires Province. Pinamar Partido benefits from of beaches.
Pinamar Partido has miles of unspoiled beaches and hundreds of acres of woodland and sand dunes. The partido has three golf courses and a wide selection of bars and restaurants.