Did you know that the Riachuelo was born in the municipality of General Las Heras?

Undoubtedly, the Matanza-Riachuelo River is one of the best known landscapes of the city and the province of Buenos Aires, as it crosses large territories of both, along its 64 kilometers. As it is public knowledge, this great flow of water flows into the Rio de la Plata, very close to the Buenos Aires neighborhoods of Barracas, La Boca and Puerto Madero. But, curiously, the point where the Riachuelo begins, far from the Autonomous City of Bueno…

A new wave of 300 layoffs in the Matanza Riachuelo Basin Authority (ACUMAR), which add to last year’s decouplings of cooperatives that cleaned the banks of the river, put at risk the progress made in the recovery of one of the most polluted watercourses in the world, a process initiated in [...] The entry Something smells bad in the Riachuelo: the destruction of ACUMAR was first published in AgendAR.