Boedo | |
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 Cafés on Boedo Avenue | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Boedo within Buenos Aires | |
| Country | Argentina |
| Autonomous City | Buenos Aires |
| Comuna | C5 |
| Important sites | Esquina Homero Manzi |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.6 km2 (1.0 sq mi) |
| Population (1991) | |
• Total | 48,231 |
| • Density | 19,000/km2 (48,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-3 (ART) |
Boedo is aworking-classbarrio or neighborhood ofBuenos Aires,Argentina. The neighborhood and one of its principal streets were named afterMariano Boedo, a leading figure in theArgentine independence.[1]
It is the home ofSan Lorenzo de Almagrofootball club.
The corner of San Juan and Boedo is mentioned in the opening verse of thetangoSur, one of the best-loved songs about Buenos Aires. The corner is now known asEsquina Homero Manzi after theauthor of the lyrics, and is the venue for several tango festivals.
TheBoedo group were a group ofleft-leaningArgentine andUruguayan writers in the 1920s. Notable members of the Boedo group includedEnrique Amorim, Leónidas Barletta, Elías Castelnuovo, Roberto Mariani, Nicolás Olivari, Lorenzo Stanchina,César Tiempo, and Álvaro Yunque.
Magazines associated with the Boedo group includedDínamo,Extrema Izquierda andLos Pensadores, andAntonio Zamora's publishing houseClaridad.
Olivari, who was a founder of the Boedo group, later became a member of the less politicalFlorida group;Roberto Arlt was also associated with both groups.
Boedo has access to many bus lines to the center and to the nearbyPrimera Junta transportation hub. It has also access to theE Line of thesubte (subway).
The main streets of the neighborhood are: Boedo to the South, San Juan/Directorio to the east, and Independencia/Alberdi to the West.
The suburb is immortalized in the tango 'Boedo', written in 1928 by Julio De Caro and with lyrics by Francisco Bautista Rímoli. The lyrics personify it as a working-class suburb, a home of tango and a refuge for the poor who created it; the lyrics include a reference to the poets of the 'corner'.
