from west to east between what is currently Hipólito Yrigoyen Avenue and Leandro N. Alem Street; and from north to south between Alberto Larroque street and Pedro Uriarte avenue. The large buildings referred to in the notice are the workshops near the Remedios de Escalada Station. The buildings where the railway warehouses and workshops operated today are occupied by the National University of Lanús, the Argentine Ferroclub, headquarters of Remedios de Escalada, and the Locomotive and Wagon Repair Workshop. In 1871 there was an outbreak of yellow fever, at the same time that several families of an incipient middle class emigrated from Buenos Aires to Banfield. The city began with a modest wooden box located in what is now the Banfield Station, from where Maipú (to the east) and French (to the west) streets emerge. The main shopping center is located on the first; a small number of businesses are located on the second to the west. Originally the railway station grew to the west and the vegetable farms and some dairy farms were located to the east. This can be seen if attention is paid to the station fronts at Banfield, Lomas de Zamora and Temperley. All of them have the station manager's office on the western end platform. When these cities expanded by subdividing small farms and farms, the new part of the city generated a main street to the east where businesses were located. Provincial Law No. 6,331, sanctioned on October 28, 1960, promulgated on November 11, and published in the Official Gazette on November 17, declared Banfield a City During the last military dictatorship in the country, self-styled National Reorganization Process, a clandestine detention center known as Pozo de Banfield operated at the intersection of Vernet and Siciliano streets; today it is a museum of memory. Old mansion "El Castillo", on the corner of Larroque and Carlos Croce. Demographics With 223,898 inhabitants (Indec, 2001), the city of Banfield is the most populous city in the partido, since it amounts to almost double that of Lomas de Zamora and Temperley, almost 38% of the total population of the partido. Sports The city is home to Club Atlético Banfield football club founded in 1896, and to the Lomas Athletic Club. Culture It is the base of the Julián Aguirre Conservatory of Music, founded by classical composer and conductor Alberto Ginastera in 1951. The writer Julio Cortázar, though born