Las Toninas

Las Toninas
Las Toninas
	Las Toninas Maze
	Coordinates: 36°29′S 56°42′W
Country	Argentina
Province	Buenos Aires
Partido	La Costa
Elevation	17 m (56 ft)
Population (2001 census [INDEC])
• Total	3,550
CPA Base	B 7106
Area code(s)	+54 2246
Website	http://lacosta.gob.ar/lugares_interes?localidad=5496

Las Toninas is a town in La Costa Partido of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Overview

Founded in 1960, Las Toninas was christened in honor of the Commerson's dolphin (known locally as a tonina). The shore had been the site of a shipwreck in 1883 of a commercial vessel registered in the British Empire, whose captain settled nearby and established the Estancia Los Ingleses.[1]

The shore at Las Toninas is distinguishable from its sister communities' by the extensive growth of tamarix bushes. These were used to create a hedge maze as a tourist attraction, and the 6,400 m² (16,000 ft²) maze is touted locally as the nation's largest.[2]

Las Toninas is also known as the "Fiber Optical Capital" in Argentina; because it is the single point where submarine optical fiber networks reach Argentina via several landing cable stations, by companies such as Level 3 (with its SAC ring), TIWS (Atlantis 2), Telecom-Antel (Bicentenario cable system), and Telefónica (SAM 1). The town was chosen because its coastline was not as rocky as others in the region.[3]

Notes and references

Viajo por Argentina: Ruta Provincial 11 (in Spanish)
"Crónica de una visita al laberinto de Las Toninas (Argentina) (Chronicle of a visit to the Las Toninas Maze)" (in Spanish). October 2007. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012.
Bederman, Uriel (4 June 2015). "Las Toninas: la puerta submarina por la que el país se conecta a Internet". La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 June 2015.

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[1] Viajo por Argentina: Ruta Provincial 11 (in Spanish)

[2] "Crónica de una visita al laberinto de Las Toninas (Argentina) (Chronicle of a visit to the Las Toninas Maze)" (in Spanish). October 2007. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012.

[3] Bederman, Uriel (4 June 2015). "Las Toninas: la puerta submarina por la que el país se conecta a Internet". La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 June 2015.