The history of Pinamar
It is implanted in what at the beginning of the 19th century was named " Montes Grandes del Juancho", twenty-eight leagues who owner was Don José Suárez. Those fields, according to the historical chronology, were of the General Félix de Álzaga, who recived them of Juan Manuel de Rosas for having been A Chief of the regiment " El Restaurador”. When don Félix passed away they were inherited by Martín de Álzaga, who married Felicitas Guerrero, who in 1870 died in a tragic way. On not having had descent, the lands passed to be a property of her father, Don Carlos Guerrero, and to the death of him and his wife, Doña Felicitas Cueto, there inherit these fields seven children of the couple, who distributed the lands.

Of this subdivision, realized in 1886, twenty-five kilometres of beaches and coastal dunes remain divided among the stays "Martin García", " La Invernada”, “El Rosario” y Manantiales”, property of Manuel and Enrique Guerrero. On November 12, 1907, the Gentleman Enrique Guerrero is designated Comisianado Municpal para el pueblo "Divisadero" by the Government of the Province. In 1908 the Provincial Government declared to this village head-board of Partido de El Tuyú. It was running this year when the railway of the south enables, in Jose Guerrero's fields, a station named "Juancho", which later would be taken advantage to transport the tourists to those beaches. In 1910, one law of date August 8 wanted to change the name of “Partido del Tuyú” into that of "Juan Madariaga". Little before, in 1908, the Belgians Fernando Robette and Agustín Poli came to these lands with the idea of installing a resort on the coast, similar to that of his their natal place, "Ostende". While the Belgians Robette and Cop were devoting themselves to Ostende, in the year 1909 the French engineers Francois de Roumefort, Albert Grouward and A.Bisset, bougth the fraction of the coast José Guerrero to create according to the planes another model summer village.

Actually has the name of "Montecarlo", a locality of Pinamar, that sleeps with many other projects to having that name. In the decade of the 70, was of constructing in this place the port of deep waters of the maritime Buenos Aires littoral. In 1918, Doña Valeria Cárdenas de Russo, with the help of the Architect Jorge Bunge, decides afforest part of the fields on the coast. One year later she signed an agreement, in which Bunge pays the quantity of $ 41.000 for 2.684 hectares and there is stipulated that it would have the majority of the actions while Sra. De Guerrero would recover the dunes in case the work was failing.

In 1941 begins the fixation and the afforestation. It was a year of many rains, circunstance that favored the plantation. In 1942 the society remains juridically constituted between the Architect Bunge and Ms. Valeria Guerrero Cárdenas de Russo, joining them an important group of professionals and landowners. Thinking about the forest of it their creation (in the main pines) and in the sea, they decided to assign the name of "Pinamar" to this area.
In 1942 there was constructed a small hotel that was called "Pinamar", which was extended in 1945 and which at present is " Hotel Playas" .The first summer house, property of the family Fariní, named "Marejada", still gets up on the corner of the streets Del Tuyú and Del Odiseo with his original front. On February 14, 1943, Pinamar is inaugurated as a summer locality and on the following year, the Executive Provincial Power aproved The Director Plan, creation of the Architect Jorge Bunge, who was the guide to construct and to urbanize, respecting the topography. In the summer of 1947/1948 Don Herman Parini initiated a service of passengers transport with the company "Al Mar". This line passed to be then the company "Sol Mar". Meanwhile, about the year 1947, Doña. Valeria Guerrero Cárdenas de Russo decided to create her own summer village in the lands that she still had on the maritime littoral, which nowadays is Valeria del Mar. For it, a society is created "Balnearios del Atlántico S.A." that with great enthusiasm initiates the afforestation and construction in that place.

The first building constructed in Valeria del Mar calls " Del Atlántico" and it was inaugurated in 1962. In 1971, one North American company realized perforations for the search of oil, staying the estructure of concrete armed in the area of Espora and Arcachon avenues. Contiunuing with Pinamar's history, in 1949, before the threat of raising of the railway and for repeated requests, there is re-inaugurated the tour of the route of the railway that there was used in 1914 to take fuelwood, but that now would serve to transport not only the elements necessaries for the works of afforestation but also it would do the service of passengers transport. Between the year 1949 and 1953 they begin to take root in Pinamar groups of Italian immigrants families who came to the country on having finished the Second Great War.

With great zeal of progress they give to Pinamar the contribution of it´s initial stage. In this period the stable society begins to organize and there are formed the different commissions of diverse institutions that today fulfill the important role for the one that they were created. They arise this way the Club de Pesca, the Sociedad de Fomento, the Comisión Pro-Templo.
In addition, Pinamar S.A. donates the lands for the construction of the Primary School, that was working in the administration of the above mentioned company and for Public Health Area. This way there gets up first the Sanitary Unit, which later on- in 1977- tranformes in Cooperativa Unidad Sanitaria Pinamar Ltda. (CUSPIN Ltda.) and that nowadays occupies these facilities the Hospital Comunitario de Pinamar.

On August 13, 1961 passed away Don Jorge Bunge, creator of this paradise, who applying knowledge of urbanism advanced for that period, generates what today is the common land of our city, admired by thousands of tourists who come looking for the contact with the nature.
In 1962 there makes concrete the creation of Cooperativa Telefónica de Pinamar (TELPIN Ltda.) for Don Enrique T. Susini, which is pioneering in the services of telephony, and advanced per decades to the rest of the country. TELPIN continues being today pride of the people of Pinamar and amazement of their visitors.
In the decade of 70 a relevant development takes place in the construction, arising the multifamily residences.

1 º of July, 1978, for Law 9.024 of the province of Buenos Aires was created the “Municpio Urbano de Pinamar”, that includes part of the territory belonging to Gral. Juan Madariaga. From this date, the localities of Montecarlo, Pinamar, Mar de Ostende, Ostende, Valeria del Mar and Cariló conform the Municipio de Pinamar, and conform a Producing Center of Services that are related directly or indirectly with the activity of the tourism.
Pinamar's locality pases to be a head board of the district in May 23, 1983. For Law N° 0 9.949 the denomination Municipio Urbano de Pinamar is replaced for Partido de Pinamar . December 7, 1996, came again the train to the Station Divisadero de Pinamar, in Gral Madariaga, localized 500 meters of the route N ° 11.

SOURCE: Government of Pinamar