La Chacarita Cemetery

Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is known as the National Cemetery and is the largest in Argentina.

Cementerio de la Chacarita
Details
Established	April 14 th 1871
Location	Buenos Aires
Country	Argentina
Type	Public
Size	95 hectares (230 acres)

Location

The cemetery is in the barrio or district of Chacarita, in the western part of Buenos Aires. Its main entrance is on Avenida Guzmán.

History

The cemetery owes its existence to a yellow fever epidemic in 1871, when existing cemeteries were strained beyond capacity (the upscale La Recoleta Cemetery refused to allow the burial of victims of the epidemic). Students of the College of San Carlos appropriated 5 hectares (12 acres) in the adjoining Colegiales area for this purpose, but had their facility closed by the city in 1886. The New Chacarita Cemetery began to function in 1887 and was formally designated as such in 1896.

Chacarita Cemetery has designated areas for members of the Argentine artistic community, including writers, prominent composers and actors. The late Justicialist leader and former President Juan Perón was buried here until his remains were relocated in 2006 to a mausoleum in his former home in San Vicente.

Historical archives

French Philanthropic Society pantheon

Spanish-Argentine Mutual Society pantheon

Crematorium

Galician Center pantheon

British and German Cemeteries

German Cemetery, main gates

See also: Cementerio Británico

In the 19th century a large number of Britons came to Argentina to work in the many areas of the economy in which England then had extensive interests. At first the British Cemetery was founded beside the Socorro Chapel (started 1821 - authorized on 22 February 1822). In 1833 the cemetery had to move to what was then called Victoria Cemetery (today the "Plaza 1° de Mayo") until November, 1892, when they were asked by the Municipality to move. Section 16 of the Chacarita Cemetery was given in exchange for the Victoria Cemetery. Eventually in 1913 the Cementerio Británico (English: British Cemetery) (or so called "De Disidentes or Corporación del Cementerio Británico de Bs. As.") was divided into the German and the British cemeteries as we know them today, because the two local communities had grown since the beginning of the 19th century.

The British Cemetery and the German Cemetery are today not managed by or part of Chacarita Cemetery.

Notable interments

La Chacarita Cemetery

Notable burials in La Chacarita cemetery include:

Carlos Acuña (1914–1999), tango singer, composer Aída Alberti (1915–2006), actress Alfredo Alcón (1930–2014), actor Oscar Alemán (1909–1980), jazz musician José Alonso (trade unionist), (1917–1970) José Amalfitani (1894–1969), president of the Vélez Sarsfield football team Alberto Anchart (1931–2011), actor Cosme Argerich (1758–1820), doctor and pioneer of military field medicine Manuel Argerich (1835–1871), physician, philosopher, lawyer Mirta Arlt (1923–2014), writer, professor, translator Emin Arslan (1868–1943), diplomat, writer, editor Fernando Báez Sosa (2001–2020), law student María Lorenza Barreneche (1926–2016), First Lady of Argentina Guillermo Battaglia (1899–1988), actor Nelly Beltrán (1925–2007), actress Antonio J. Benítez (1903–1992), politician Paquita Bernardo (1900–1925), musician, tango composer Antonio Berni (1905–1981), painter Eladia Blázquez (1931–2005), tango vocalist and composer Alejandra Boero (1918–2006), actress Oscar Bonavena (1942–1976), heavyweight boxer Ángel Borlenghi (1904–1962), trade-unionist and Peronist politician Sofía Bozán (1904–1958), actress and tango vocalist Alfredo Bravo (1925–2003), Socialist politician Alicia Bruzzo (1945–2007), actress Clemar Bucci (1920–2011), race car driver Enrique Cadícamo (1900–1999), author, tango lyricist Francisco Canaro (1888–1964), tango bandleader and composer Evaristo Carriego (1883–1912), poet, journalist Adolfo Castelo (1935–2004), news anchorman Alberto Castillo (1914–2002), tango singer Orestes Caviglia (1893–1971), stage director and actor Cátulo Castillo (1906–1975), musician, composer, poet, boxer Gustavo Cerati (1959–2014), rock singer, songwriter, composer, producer José Cibrián (1916–2002), stage director and actor Pascual Contursi (1888–1932), tango composer Carlos Cores (1923–2000), actor Juan d'Arienzo (1900–1976), orchestra leader Julio de Caro (1899–1980), tango bandleader and composer Juan de Dios Filiberto (1885–1964), tango composer Carlos di Sarli (1903–1960), tango bandleader Guido di Tella (1931–2001), Foreign Minister Torcuato di Tella (1892–1948), industrialist Edgardo Donato (1897–1963), tango composer Vito Dumas (1900–1965), navigator Ulises Dumont (1937–2008), actor Samuel Eichelbaum (1894–1967), writer Homero Expósito (1918–1987), tango lyricist Ada Falcón (1905–2002), tango vocalist Eduardo Falú (1923–2013), folk musician Edelmiro Farrell (1887–1980), President of Argentina León Ferrari (1920–2013), conceptual artist Roberto Firpo (1884–1969), tango composer Norma Fontenla (1930–1971), prima ballerina Osvaldo Fresedo (1897–1984), bandoneónist and tango composer María Rosa Gallo (1925–2004), actress Leopoldo Galtieri (1926–2003), President of Argentina Óscar Alfredo Gálvez (1913–1989), race car driver Carlos Gardel (1890–1935), iconic tango singer, actor José María Gatica (1925–1963), boxer Carlos Enrique Gavito (1942–2005), tango dancer Severino Di Giovanni (1901–1931), Italian anarchist Enrique Gorriarán Merlo (1941–2006), founder of ERP terrorist group Roberto Goyeneche (1926–1994), tango singer Paul Groussac (1848–1929), French-born writer, historian Bernardo Houssay (1887–1971), Nobel Prize in Medicine José Ingenieros (1877–1925), physician and philosopher Maurice Jouvet (1923–1999), French-born actor Ángel Labruna (1918–1983), soccer player

Lydia Lamaison (1914–2012), actress Juan Carlos Lectoure (1936–2002), boxing promoter Inda Ledesma (1926–2010), actress Alfredo Le Pera (1900–1935), tango composer Irineo Leguisamo (1903–1985), thoroughbred racing jockey Antonio Vespucio Liberti (1900–1978), president of the River Plate football team Nélida Lobato (1934–1982), dancer María Loredo (1854–1928), faith healer Gianni Lunadei (1938–1998), actor Tito Lusiardo (1896–1982), tango dancer Pedro Maffia (1899–1967), bandoneónist Agustín Magaldi (1898–1938), tango vocalist Azucena Maizani (1902–1970), tango vocalist Homero Manzi (1907–1951), writer and tango composer Mona Maris (1903–1991), actress Duilio Marzio (1923–2013), actor Tita Merello (1904–2002), actress Alberto Migré (1931–2006), screenwriter Zully Moreno (1920–1999), actress Oscar Moro (1948–2006), rock drummer Federico Moura (1951–1988), singer, songwriter Jorge Newbery (1875–1914), pioneer aviator, sportsman Oscar Núñez (1929–2012), actor Alberto Olmedo (1933–1988), comedian Juan Carlos Onganía (1914–1995), President of Argentina Pappo (1950–2005), musician (cremated here, ashes were scattered) Mario Passano (1925–1995), actor Malvina Pastorino (1916–1994), actress Adolfo Pedernera (1918–1995), soccer player Ivo Pelay (1893–1959), poet, playwright Pascual Pérez (1926–1977), champion boxer Nathán Pinzón (1917–1993), actor Pablo Podestá (1875–1923), actor Jorge Porcel (1936–2006), comedian Javier Portales (1937–2003), comedian Glenn Postolski (1966-2024), Professor and academic Osvaldo Pugliese (1905–1995), composer, pianist Benito Quinquela Martín (1890–1977), painter Francisco Rabanal (1906–1982), Mayor of Buenos Aires Pedro Pablo Ramírez (1884–1962), President of Argentina Raúl Riganti (1893–1970), race car driver Edmundo Rivero (1911–1986), tango vocalist Nélida Roca (1929–1999), dancer Alberto Rocamora (1911–2004), politician José Ignacio Rucci (1924–1973), trade-unionist Luis Sandrini (1905–1980), comedian Enrique Santos Discépolo (1901–1951), tango composer Enrique Sdrech (1928–2003), journalist Mohamed Alí Seineldín (1933–2009), mutinous Army officer Enrique Serrano (1891–1965), actor Osvaldo Soriano (1943–1997), novelist Hugo Soto (actor) (1953–1994) Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), poet Carlos Thays (1849–1934), landscape designer and urbanist Juan Carlos Thorry (1908–2000), actor, entertainer Cacho Tirao (1941–2007), guitarist Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (1924–1978), film director Lolita Torres (1930–2002), actress, singer Aníbal Troilo (1914–1975), musician Saúl Ubaldini (1936–2006), trade-unionist Augusto Vandor (1923–1969), trade-unionist Ángel Villoldo (1861–1919), the "father of Tango" Roberto Viola (1924–1994), President of Argentina María Elena Walsh (1930–2011), poet and composer Héctor Yazalde (1946–1997), soccer player Tincho Zabala (1923–2001), comedian Marcos Zucker (1921–2003), actor

British Cemetery

British Cemetery Chapel

• Lucas Bridges (1874–1949), Anglo-Argentine author
• Thomas Bridges (1842–1898), Anglican missionary
• Frank Brown (1858–1943), popular English clown
• Jeannette Campbell (1916–2003), swimmer
• Cecilia Grierson (1859–1934), physician and feminist
• Alexander Watson Hutton (1853–1936), founder of Argentine Soccer
• Juan Bautista Thorne (1807–1885), Army Colonel

German Cemetery

• Hans Langsdorff (1894–1939), Captain of the World War II pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee
• Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005), photographer

Grave of Captain Hans Langsdorff

External links

• Official website
• La Chacarita Cemetery cultural historical heritage rescue webpage by Hernán Santiago Vizzari (in Spanish)
• Google Maps
• British Cemetery Corporation of Buenos Aires by Eduardo A. Kesting (in Spanish and English)
• La Chacarita Cemetery at Find a Grave