The City of Mar del Plata, located in the Party of Gral. Pueyrredón, in the County of Buenos Aires of the Republic Argentina, to 400 Km to the south of the federal Capital, in a profile of plain pampeana and of mountains that decline about the splendor of the Ocean Atlantic.

The first residents that occupied the area where today the city of Mar del Plata rises they were the indigenous tribes of the Indians called pampas.

First Spanish that had contact with the costs marplatenses was Fernando of Magellan in February of 1519. On the other hand Juan of Garay carried out the first entrance for earth between 1581 and 1582; but none of these two expeditions left a permanent population.

Who carried out the first intent, they were the parents Jesuit Matías Strobel; Tomás Falkner and José Cardiel who in 1747 they establish a Jesuit mission beside the Lagoon "The Cabrillas" (today known as Lagoon of the Parents, which is abandoned September 1° 1751.

In 1857, a Brazilian-Portuguese consortium - whose representative was Coelho of Meyrelles -, he acquires lands in this region and it installs a saladero. This establishment will cause a slow and progressive change in the physiognomy of the region, since around the same one he/she will concentrate a small population nucleus.

For diverse reasons, as the progressive decadence of the activity saladeril, the business could not continue and to the death of Coelho of Meyrelles a part of its lands will be acquired by a fundamental actor in the constitution of the city of Mar del Plata: Patricio Banks Fields.

When Patricio Banks Fields position of the lands of Coelho of Meyrelles it is made, it begins November 14 1873 the administrations before the government of the county so that the existence of a town call is recognized "Port of the Lagoon of the Parents" in lands of its property. This application will have a favorable answer and February 10 1874 the governor of the county of Buenos Aires, Mariano Acosta, sends the ordinance where it recognizes to the new town inside the Party of Balcarce, which receives to its founder's order the name of Mar del Plata.