Olivos

Olivos

Olivos, cabecera (county seat) of Vicente López partido (county), Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, eastern Argentina. It is located directly north of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia (province), on the Río de la Plata estuary.

The site of present-day Olivos was during the 16th and early 17th centuries part of a region called Costa de Monte Grande and after 1730 the pago (country district) of Monte Grande. In 1706 the area became part of the parish of San Isidro Labrador. It was incorporated within the county of San Isidro in 1784. The city of Olivos was founded in 1878. In 1905 San Isidro county was divided, and Olivos became part of the county of Vicente López.

Olivos, primarily a residential and seaside resort area, experienced its most rapid population growth in the 1940s and ’50s. It has a large foreign population. The residence of Argentina’s president is in Olivos. It is served by a rail line and the national highway system. There are dock facilities for small trading vessels. Pop. (2001) county, 274,082; (2010) county, 269,420.