Coronel Pringles

History

• 1882: Coronel Pringles partido was created on 10 July and the town on 24 September.
• 1890: The first mayor, Felipe S. Medina, was elected.
• 1900: The church of Santa Rosa de Lima was inaugurated by the Bishop of La Plata, Monsignor Mariano Espinosa, on 14 January. The town was linked by telegraph to the rest of the province.
• 1903: Opening, on 15 July, of the wide gauge railway line through Coronel Pringles, linking Olavarría and Bahía Blanca, and built by the British-owned company Gran Ferrocarril Sur. This company was later to become part of Ferrocarril General Roca after the railways were nationalised in 1948.
• 1905: A branch of the Nacional Bank of Argentina was opened.
• 1908: Building of the 600-seat Spanish Theater was completed.
• 1910: On 1 January the Coronel Suárez to Puerto Belgrano section of the broad gauge railway line through Pringles, built by the French-owned company Ferrocarril Rosario y Puerto Belgrano was opened. The section linking Pringles to Rosario was opened later that year on 15 December. This railway company was later to become part of Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre after the railways were nationalised in 1948.
• 1912: The children's home was opened.
• 1914: The poet Almafuerte visited Pringles and gave a lecture in the Spanish Theater.
• 1915: The newspaper El Orden was founded in October.
• 1916: The Club Leando N. Alem was founded.
• 1919: A branch of the Provincial Bank of Buenos Aires was opened.
• 1928: The Pringles Bank was founded.
• 1930: Television transmissions first received.
• 1932: Pringles Public Library was opened.
• 1933: The famous tango singer, Carlos Gardel, gave a concert at the Spanish Theater on 18 May, accompanied by his guitarists Horacio Pottorossi, Guillermo Barbieri, Domingo Riverol and Julio Vivas. Barbieri and Riverol died along with Gardel in a plane crash two years later.
• 1934: Coronel Pringles was declared a city.
• 1938: The constructions of the Town Hall, Municipal Slaughterhouse, the Main Square and The Avenue were completed under the direction of the architect Francisco Salamone.
• 1938: The Rural Society was founded.
• 1941: The Flying Club and the Electrical Cooperative were founded. A local branch of the Rotary Club was founded.
• 1944: The Old People's Home was opened.
• 1948: El Fogon de los Gauchos founded.
• 1950: The Voluntary Fire Service was created.
• 1956: El Club de Pesca Social y Deporte was founded.
• 1965: The Lions Club was founded under the presidency of Augusto Mariani
• 1966: Alliance française was set up.
• 1968: A local branch office of the newspaper La Nueva Provincia opened.
• 1970: On 10 July the writer Jorge Luis Borges gave a talk entitled Los Malones y La Conquista del Desierto in the Municipal de Cultura.
• 1981: The City Cultural Museum opened.
• 1982: An acacia tree was planted by Jorge Luis Borges in the Garden of Historic Trees of the Casa de la Cultura on 12 September to celebrate the centenary of the foundation of Pringles in 1882.

  Climate

Mayors of Coronel Pringles

Celebrities born in Coronel Pringles

• Juan Carlos Thorry film actor, tango musician.
• César Aira, writer, born 1949
• Arturo Carrera, poet.
• Celeste Carballo, singer and composer of rock music.

  Access roads

Provincial routes

• Access to the partido is via Provincial Route 51 or Provincial Route 85.

  Train

Air

• Aerodrome provincial,, 3 km southeast of the city. En Route 51 km 617 and Pringles access through 9 de Julio | Tel + 46-2488
• Airport commander Spore, Location: Bahía Blanca on Route 3 North Ex km 675 | IATA Code: BHI, Category: Cabotage | Tel + 54 486-0300