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Moreno city (1991 pop. 287,188), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a residential and district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. The district was the scene of several major battles during the Argentine War of Independence and the mid-19th-century unitarian-federalist conflict.

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Moreno, Argentina Founded in 1860 and named after Mariano Moreno (1778–1811), a leader of the movement to win independence from Spain, although he died four years before it was achieved.

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