Zárate, Buenos Aires

Zárate is a city and the administrative capital of the Zárate Partido in the northern region of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It sits on the right bank of the Paraná River, about 60 kilometres northwest of the city of Buenos Aires, and is an industrial hub and an important transport link of the Greater Buenos Aires corridor. At the 2022 census it had 138,022 inhabitants. The settlement began as a small colonial village and shipping port called Puerto de Zárate and was formally established on 31 January 1827 by the brothers Pedro and José Antonio Anta, who donated and subdivided the land. It grew quickly in the 1880s as a railway town, though the community celebrates its anniversary on 19 March 1854, when the Zárate Partido was separated from Exaltación de la Cruz. Toyota, Eastman Chemical and several brewers have plants here, and the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge starts here.