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Argentina - Parque Lezama (Lezama Park)

The Royal Guinea Company built its business headquarters in the highest part of a hill, near the place where Lezama Park is today, on the current Brasil Street. In 1713 the South Sea Company replaced the Guinea Seas Company. Today there is no tangible evidence of the “asientos” or the existence of the slave depot, but the location is known from documentary sources of the period.

Identified as Memory Site of Argentina in the framework of “The Slave Route Project in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay”.

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The file includes excerpts from the publication “Sitios de Memoria y culturas vivas de los afro descendientes en Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay. Tomo I Huellas e Identidades”,  Plaza San Martín y Parque Lezama, Marta Goldberg.

Access 365 days of the year, 24 hours. It is located in one of the most central areas of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and with good public transportation.
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Lezama Park. Current view of the Lezama Park. Photograph credits: http://www.buenosaires.travel/parque-lezama-san-telmo/
Lezama Park. Current view of the Lezama Park. Photograph credits: http://www.buenosaires.travel/parque-lezama-san-telmo/

Other data of interest

Argentina

Historical name

Depósito de Esclavos de la Compañía de los Mares del Sur (Slave depot of the South Sea Company)

Address

Se encuentra rodeado por las calles Defensa y Brasil y las Avenidas Paseo Colón y Martín García; Barrio San Telmo, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Classification

Site

Category

Others

Function-Testimony

Place of confinement Slave market

Access level

Free

Current Use

Public park

Original use

Slave place of confinement

Property kind

State

Expressions of intangible heritage associated

In the last few years, the practice of Candombe and the drummings have been revitalized in the area near Lezama Park.