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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Día 11-14: Part III: San Isidro

A fancy, very expensive town, named after the builder’s patron saints.  Vivian Ocampo was a radical feminist and patron of authors. She had a nice house:

 And she lived near the Río Plato. It  used to be called the “Sweet Ocean”, because it wasn’t salty. I can’t imagine why people didn’t realize it was just a river:

It used to be at least 10 city blocks wider, before land was reclaimed

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