When the Río de la Plata was the spa of the town

There is a tango with lyrics by the poet Héctor Negro that is called the old Costanera. The strange poetry the times in which the link with the Río de la Plata was full: The town, on summer days, enjoyed its waters.

“Where is my shore of clean water without a tapial?

/There we were two. /The river and you …, /the sky and me, looking at us without asking. /Then, time and goodbye. / Then the river was a ghost more / later … Look …! ”, Pray the lyrics of the tango.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Buenos Aires held a very coqueto municipal spa in the South Costanera area. Thousands of people attended there in heat seasons to cool off, entertain and rest.

The journalist and writer Daniela Pasik, in her article when the waters of the Río de la Plata were close, wrote that “The Costanera Sur was the first urban piece addressed to the popular sectorsa beautiful and practical place. It was not makeup or value, nor a landscape to contemplate. It was a living place, to use it, actively star. (…)

On December 11, 1918, the southern Costanera of the City of Buenos Aires was alive and place, including its splendid municipal spa, which inaugurated days before the official start of that summer Joaquín Llambías, mayor appointed by President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Hundreds of people used the breakwater surrounded by sweet milk color, where They could bathe without infections risk. That was right where the ecological reserve is now and the sun devastates almost without a river in sight. ”

In 1934 the Argentine Red Cross premiered its rescue school. Lifeguard training begins. Much had to do with that massive custom of enjoying the spas of the Río de la Plata.

Those Buenos Aires or Buenos Aires bathers They had no relief if inconvenience appeared. In the summer season of 1932/33 there were some five hundred injured.

In the summer that followed, when the first boys trained in the rescue school began to work, 1,183 bathers were treated by the Red Cross.

Relief posts came to organize, first in the spas of the northern zone to San Fernando. In places such as Los Angeles, Olivos, Barrancas, Las Toscas, the bathers began to distinguish the box where they should go in case of danger.

About ten boxes were assembled, in which in 1934/35 1,361 Veraneantes were treated. The activity was sophisticated to the point that two small boats were incorporated that ran through the river continuously.

A few years later, the activity was deployed to their aid on sea beaches.

The sea beaches of the province of Buenos Aires, which little by little could have mass visits, then had the presence of Professional lifeguards who had very often been prepared by the Red Crossbut did not depend on the institution.

In the Río de la Plata it was, little by little, diminishing the presence of people. And that decrease was passed to full absence when It was declared that the waters were contaminated. But before that absence was complete, the decline happened because new destinations could be chosen.

It is possible that many Buenos Aires not only left the coasts of the Río de la Plata because they began to contaminate, but because Now they could know the sea.

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