Magdalena City

At the same time as the founding of Buenos Aires by Juan de Garay in 1650, the colonization of the lands comprising the party treaty began, whose vast original territory stretched from the Creek to the Salt River. A century later (1730) the parish of La Matanza was erected and was subdivided in 1780 into three: The "La Laguna reduction" (now San Vicente), "the Quilmes" and "The Magdalene Islands". The construction of a chapel in 1776 made the formation of a village possible, which was located on high ground almost entirely surrounded by reeds and was called "the Magdalen Islands". The village and