Avenida Corrientes de la Calle Corrientes" in 1937. The neighborhood is home to the Atlanta football club. The "barrio" was home to tango great Osvaldo Pugliese. Corrientes ends at the Estación Federico Lacroze train station next to Parque Los Andes, where fairs where held until September 2005. Just west of the park is La Chacarita Cemetery; the largest in Argentina. The cemetery is at times referred to colloquially and in tango lyrics as "La Quinta del Ñato" (a lunfardo term referring to a person's last dwelling). Corrientes Avenue is featured in several tango lyrics, notably: Avenida Corrientes Avenida Corrientes () is one
Corrientes Juan Díaz de Solís commanded the first expedition to reach the area populated mainly by Guaraní aboriginals, but his expedition was attacked and Solís perished in the adventure. Sebastian Cabot established in 1527 the "Sancti Spiritu" fort upstream of the Paraná River, and in 1536 Pedro de Mendoza reached further north into the basin of the river, searching for the "Sierras of Silver". Juan Torres de Vera y Aragón founded on April 3, 1588 "San Juan de Vera de las Siete Corrientes" ("Saint John of Vera of the Seven Currents"), which was later shortened to "Corrientes". The "seven currents" refer