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Laprida, Buenos Aires

city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ5393050 ↗
Source-derived summary

Laprida is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative centre for Laprida Partido.

Attractions

Museo Archivo Histórico Hugo H. Diez (Hugo Diez Museum & Historical archive)

Laguna El Paraíso, lake, located 4 km from the city, a popular summer resorts on the region.

External links

Municipal information: Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Laprida, Buenos Aires” as city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Laprida, Buenos and Aires.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 63-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1890. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Laprida, Buenos and Aires providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Laprida, Buenos Aires”, the useful work is to connect “city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5393050. Authority coordinates are -37.533, -60.817. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Laprida, Buenos Aires”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Laprida, Buenos Aires primary sources, Laprida, Buenos Aires archive and Laprida research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Laprida, Buenos Aires”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Laprida, Buenos Aires” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.