Tandil

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FieldValue
settlement_typeCity
official_nameTandil
image_skylineTandil desde La Movediza 2.JPG
image_captionPanoramic view of the city
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameArgentina
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1Buenos Aires
subdivision_type2Partido
subdivision_name2Tandil
established_titleFounded
established_dateApril 4, 1823
area_total_km252.34
population_as_of2022 census
population_total145,575
population_density_km2auto
pushpin_mapArgentina#Argentina Buenos Aires Province
pushpin_label_positionleft
pushpin_map_captionLocation in Argentina
coordinates
elevation_m188
postal_code_typeCPA Base
postal_codeB 7000
area_code+54 249
website
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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Municipalidad_Tandil.jpg" caption="City Hall"] ::

Tandil is the main city of the homonymous partido (department), located in Argentina, in the southeast of Buenos Aires Province, just north-northwest of Tandilia hills. The city was founded in 1823, and its name originates from the Piedra Movediza ("Moving Stone") which fell in 1912. The city is the birthplace of many notable sports personalities, as well as former president of Argentina Mauricio Macri.

Geography

Tandil is located 180 m above sea level and its coordinates are . The city borders Rauch and Azul (to the north), Ayacucho and Balcarce (to the east), Lobería, Necochea and Benito Juárez (to the south) and Azul and Benito Juárez (to the west).

Tandil is situated approximately midway between La Plata (the provincial capital), 330 km to its NE, and Bahía Blanca, lying the same distance to its SW; it is also 160 km NW of Mar del Plata, and 360 km SSW of Buenos Aires. Tandil is in a zone within the Pampas known as the Humid Pampas.

According to the 2022 census (INDEC), Tandil had a population of 145,575. The total area of the Tandil partido is 4,935 km2.

Climate

Tandil's climate is mild and humid (classified as Cfb or an oceanic climate under the Köppen climate classification), with an average temperature of 13.8 C and 888.6 mm of precipitation annually. Mornings are often cold in autumn, winter and spring, and generally fresh in the summer. Fog is very common in autumn and winter, when frosts are also common. Minimum temperatures below -5 C have been recorded in the winter months. Rainfall occurs throughout the year but more frequently in summer. Snow is not very common.

The climatological data in the table below is from the period 1991–2020:

|location = Tandil, Argentina (1991–2020, extremes 1961–present) |metric first = Yes |single line = Yes |Jan record high C = 40.7 |Feb record high C = 37.8 |Mar record high C = 37.2 |Apr record high C = 32.5 |May record high C = 28.0 |Jun record high C = 23.3 |Jul record high C = 25.4 |Aug record high C = 31.2 |Sep record high C = 30.0 |Oct record high C = 33.6 |Nov record high C = 35.4 |Dec record high C = 39.9 |year record high C = 40.7 |Jan high C = 28.4 |Feb high C = 26.9 |Mar high C = 24.5 |Apr high C = 20.5 |May high C = 16.5 |Jun high C = 13.3 |Jul high C = 12.5 |Aug high C = 15.0 |Sep high C = 16.9 |Oct high C = 19.9 |Nov high C = 23.4 |Dec high C = 27.0 |year high C = 20.4 |Jan mean C = 20.8 |Feb mean C = 19.6 |Mar mean C = 17.4 |Apr mean C = 13.5 |May mean C = 10.2 |Jun mean C = 7.2 |Jul mean C = 6.2 |Aug mean C = 8.2 |Sep mean C = 10.2 |Oct mean C = 13.3 |Nov mean C = 16.4 |Dec mean C = 19.5 |year mean C = 13.5 |Jan low C = 13.3 |Feb low C = 12.7 |Mar low C = 11.0 |Apr low C = 7.4 |May low C = 4.8 |Jun low C = 2.0 |Jul low C = 1.1 |Aug low C = 2.4 |Sep low C = 3.9 |Oct low C = 6.8 |Nov low C = 9.3 |Dec low C = 11.6 |year low C = 7.2 |Jan record low C = 1.8 |Feb record low C = 0.8 |Mar record low C = 0.0 |Apr record low C = -4.6 |May record low C = -5.8 |Jun record low C = -11.0 |Jul record low C = -11.6 |Aug record low C = -8.5 |Sep record low C = -7.1 |Oct record low C = -4.8 |Nov record low C = -4.0 |Dec record low C = -0.3 |year record low C = -11.6 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 108.8 |Feb precipitation mm = 98.5 |Mar precipitation mm = 91.6 |Apr precipitation mm = 93.5 |May precipitation mm = 56.0 |Jun precipitation mm = 48.6 |Jul precipitation mm = 41.1 |Aug precipitation mm = 57.5 |Sep precipitation mm = 58.7 |Oct precipitation mm = 85.9 |Nov precipitation mm = 98.4 |Dec precipitation mm = 74.0 |year precipitation mm = 912.6 |Jan humidity = 67.0 |Feb humidity = 72.8 |Mar humidity = 76.9 |Apr humidity = 78.3 |May humidity = 81.6 |Jun humidity = 80.5 |Jul humidity = 80.2 |Aug humidity = 75.9 |Sep humidity = 74.4 |Oct humidity = 73.8 |Nov humidity = 69.7 |Dec humidity = 64.6 |year humidity = 74.6 |unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm |Jan precipitation days = 7.9 |Feb precipitation days = 7.1 |Mar precipitation days = 7.6 |Apr precipitation days = 7.3 |May precipitation days = 6.0 |Jun precipitation days = 5.4 |Jul precipitation days = 6.3 |Aug precipitation days = 5.4 |Sep precipitation days = 6.9 |Oct precipitation days = 8.7 |Nov precipitation days = 8.8 |Dec precipitation days = 7.2 |year precipitation days = 84.6 |Jan snow days = 0.0 |Feb snow days = 0.0 |Mar snow days = 0.0 |Apr snow days = 0.0 |May snow days = 0.1 |Jun snow days = 0.1 |Jul snow days = 0.1 |Aug snow days = 0.1 |Sep snow days = 0.0 |Oct snow days = 0.0 |Nov snow days = 0.0 |Dec snow days = 0.0 |year snow days = 0.2 |Jan sun = 254.2 |Feb sun = 240.1 |Mar sun = 220.1 |Apr sun = 186.0 |May sun = 142.6 |Jun sun = 114.0 |Jul sun = 127.1 |Aug sun = 164.3 |Sep sun = 159.0 |Oct sun = 213.9 |Nov sun = 231.0 |Dec sun = 232.5 |year sun = |Jand sun = 8.2 |Febd sun = 8.5 |Mard sun = 7.1 |Aprd sun = 6.2 |Mayd sun = 4.6 |Jund sun = 3.8 |Juld sun = 4.1 |Augd sun = 5.3 |Sepd sun = 5.3 |Octd sun = 6.9 |Novd sun = 7.7 |Decd sun = 7.5 |yeard sun = 6.3 |Jan percentsun = 59.1 |Feb percentsun = 63.7 |Mar percentsun = 58.4 |Apr percentsun = 49.1 |May percentsun = 46.2 |Jun percentsun = 37.2 |Jul percentsun = 42.4 |Aug percentsun = 52.2 |Sep percentsun = 46.7 |Oct percentsun = 53.7 |Nov percentsun = 53.6 |Dec percentsun = 49.9 |year percentsun = 51.0 |source 1 = Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (percent sun 1991–2000){{cite web | url = https://ssl.smn.gob.ar/dpd/observaciones/estadisticas_normales_9120.zip | title = Estadísticas Climatológicas Normales - período 1991-2020 | publisher = Servicio Meteorológico Nacional | language = es | access-date = 29 April 2023 | archive-date = 3 March 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230303032103/https://ssl.smn.gob.ar/dpd/observaciones/estadisticas_normales_9120.zip | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230708235600/http://repositorio.smn.gob.ar/bitstream/handle/20.500.12160/2506/estad%C3%ADsticas_climatol%C3%B3gicas_normales_1991-2020.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y | archive-date = 8 July 2023 | url = http://repositorio.smn.gob.ar/handle/20.500.12160/2506 | title = Estadísticas Climatológicas Normales – período 1991–2020 | publisher = Servicio Meteorológico Nacional | language = es | access-date = 31 July 2023 | year = 2023}}{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230509192820/http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/bitstream/handle/10915/78367/Archivo_de_datos_climatol%C3%B3gicos.zip?sequence=1&isAllowed=y | archive-date = 9 May 2023 | url = http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/78367 | title = Estadística climatológica de la República Argentina Período 1991-2000 | publisher = Servicio Meteorológico Nacional | language = es | access-date = 23 May 2023}}{{cite web | url = https://www.smn.gob.ar/estadisticas | title = Clima en la Argentina: Guia Climática por Tandil | work = Caracterización: Estadísticas de largo plazo | publisher = Servicio Meteorológico Nacional | language = es | accessdate = 29 April 2023 | archive-date = 4 September 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170904022616/https://www2.smn.gob.ar/caracterizaci%C3%B3n-estad%C3%ADsticas-de-largo-plazo | url-status = dead |date=August 2010

Place name

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Tandil_moving_stone_1890.jpg" caption="''Piedra Movediza'' ("Moving Stone"), c. 1890" alt=""] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Piedra_movediza_Tandil,_Prov._Buenos_Aires,_Argentina..JPG" caption="Replica of the Piedra Movediza installed in 2007"] ::

It is widely believed that the name of the city comes from the Mapuche words tan ("falling"), and lil ("rock"). It is probably a reference to the Piedra Movediza ("Moving Stone"), a large boulder which stood seemingly miraculously balanced on the edge of a rocky foothill. In order to demonstrate the slight movements of the boulder, it was common practice to place bottles under its base to watch them shatter. The "Moving Stone" toppled on February 29, 1912, and split into two pieces at the bottom of the hill.

In May 2007, a fix replica was set up in the same place where the original stood. The replica, made by engineering students, is actually cemented in place and does not teeter the way the original did.

History

The town was founded by Martín Rodríguez on April 4, 1823, named Fuerte Independencia (Fort Independence). In time the original natives became assimilated and mingled with the increasing European population. The vast majority of immigrants came from Spain and Italy, but also Danish people settled mainly guided by the Danish College of Missions, the latter constituting a very active community. Tandil was designated a city (although by modern standards it was a large town) in 1895 and became a popular tourist destination attracting people from Buenos Aires and other parts of Argentina.

The Piedra Movediza fell in 1912 and split in two below. Although it is impossible after the fact to ascertain the reason it fell, it is very possible that the delicately balanced rock was thrown off balance by the common practice of placing glass bottles under it and watching them explode. This was the way the locals would prove to visitors that the rock, in fact, moved, since the movement was too subtle to be detected by the naked eye. There have been projects to restore the rock, and a replica stone was placed where the original used to be. Other similar stones like El Centinela are also attractions, but none has the truly astonishing quality of teetering ever so slowly like the "moving rock" once did.

1872 massacre

In the early morning of January 1st, 1872, a massacre against European immigrants took place in the city, instigated by a man known as Gerónimo G. Solané, who was also known as Tata Dios (Spanish for "Grandfather God"), a gaucho from either Entre Ríos or Santiago del Estero, who presented himself as a healer and prophet. In his name, several dozen gauchos had killed 36 immigrants.

National University of Central Buenos Aires Province

The National University of Central Buenos Aires Province (Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia Buenos Aires) is a public university located in Tandil. It was founded in 1974 as part of University of Buenos Aires Professor Alberto Taquini's plan to geographically diversify Argentina's National University system.

Established with the unification of a private school and a campus of the National University of the South, with more than 11,000 students, the university includes 10 schools offering 21 undergraduate, 58 graduate, and 19 post-graduate degrees. It maintains secondary campuses in Azul and Olavarría.

Notable people

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Macri_recibió_el_bastón_y_la_banda_presidencial.jpg" caption="Argentina's president [[Mauricio Macri]] was born in Tandil"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Del_Potro_WM16_(13)_(28340179731).jpg" caption="[[Juan Martín del Potro]] is a well known sport personality from the city"] ::

Arts

Politics

Sports

Gallery

File:Plaza Tandil.JPG|Plaza Independencia (Independence Square) File:Geiser Tandil.JPG|Lago del Fuerte (Fortress Lake), with its artificial geyser File:BustoSantamarina1.jpg|Statue outside Ramón Santamarina hospital File:Tandil - Entrada al paqeue Centenario - panoramio.jpg|Entrance to Independence Park File:Andén de la estación Tandil hacia el noreste.jpg|Railway station platform (Roca Railway) File:AvDonBosco-Tandil.jpg|The city's rural surroundings File:Subida al Fortin de Tandil - panoramio.jpg|Road to the city's old fort File:LagoDelFuerte Tandil May2014.jpg|Lago del Fuerte in 2014 File:TandilSkyline IndependencePark May2014.jpg|City skyline from Independence Park File:Tandil Centinela May2014.jpg|Centinela rock formation outside of the city File:8M2022-Tandil.36.jpg|A participant in International Women's Day 2022 in Tandil

References

References

  1. "Censo 2022 {{!}} Municipio de Tandil".
  2. Peel, M. C. and Finlayson, B. L. and McMahon, T. A.. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci..
  3. (1980). "Natural Wonders of the World". Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
  4. noticias.universia.com.ar. "Cómo será la réplica de la movediza de Tandil". Noticias Universia Argentina.
  5. "Maria Cristina Kiehr (Soprano) - Short Biography".
  6. (3 August 2013). "Referí bombero".

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