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184 6 Av. F. Beiró Campillo . Mariscal A v . C h o rr o a rí n Av. de los Constituyentes L l e r e n a Quirós R a u li e s Av. San Martín Tinogasta Z a m u d i o Est. P. N. Arata 144 FCGU LOCATION: AV. SAN MARTÍN 4453 TRANSPORTATION: BUSES: 47, 57, 78, 105, 133, 134, 146. TRAIN STATION: ARATA (URQUIZA LINE). The University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Agronomy is located on thirty hectares within Buenos Aires city limits, adjacent to the residential neighborhood known as Agronomía . The Commission of Parks and Green Spaces (Comisión de Parques y Paseos ) first designated this area as parkland in 1893 because of its extremely fertile soil . The original plan called for the construction of a greenspace far outside the city center on an area of 80 to 100 hectares, though an executive order from 1901 assigned 185 hectares to the project , thirty of which were set aside for the future Faculty . This space, originally intended as an “agronomy farm, ” evolved into the Agronomy and Veterinary Institute in 1904, and then the Agronomy and Veterinary Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires in 1909 . The Faculty became a hub for the surrounding area as it attracted infrastructural improvements such as paved streets and a train station . Houses gradually appeared nearby , and the neighborhood known as Agronomía was officially founded on September 25, 1904 . Enacting memory The neighborhood and university communities have collaborated on several commemorative sites within the grounds of the Faculty . The Bosque de los Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Forest) was created in 1997 , twenty-one years after the military coup, by the Student Union’s Human Rights Commission . Its goal was to foster consciousness and keep alive the hope for justice . In 2004 Buenos Aires City Council honored disappeared agronomy students by designating a plaque to 144 . Faculty of Agronomy – Agronomía Neighborhood AGRONOMÍA HUMAN RIGHTS WOOD 185 commemorate the students as well as the entire period during which the military imposed its own appointed administrators on the Faculty . Other memorial sites were inaugurated in 2004 on the neighborhood’s onehundredth anniversary . A time capsule was buried as part of a long day of celebrations . It contained a copy of the Nunca Más report (see “Nunca Más Square and Cultural Center, ” p . 186) and messages written by local students and by the neighborhood’s Centenary Commission; these objects were to be preserved until the community’s next major anniversary, on September 25, 2054 . The Agronomy and Veterinary Faculty collaborated with the Historical Studies Committee of the neighborhoods of Agronomía and Parque Chas to organize this event . Another activity involved the planting of one hundred trees surrounding the plaque honoring disappeared students . Teachers and students from local schools adopted the trees and took part in the ceremony . A plaque created by the Centenary Commission and the Roberto Santoro Cultural Center (see “Roberto Santoro Cultural Center, ” p . 182) was also dedicated in honor of disappeared residents from the neighborhood . A memorial ceremony was held on March 24, 2006, thirty years after the coup, to commemorate disappeared agronomy graduates . Two plaques were dedicated : one honoring students, and another paying tribute to two agricultural engineers disappeared in 1977 . María Marta Badano and José Oreste Sorzana were also remembered for their political and social commitment . María Marta had been active in the Faculty first as a member of the student union and later as an instructor . TRIBUTES IN FRONT OF THE FACULTY OF AGRONOMY. ...

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