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Gerli is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It lies in the partidos of Avellaneda and Lanús and forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires urban agglomeration.
1. History
30 March 1909: The settlement was officially established on territory owned by Antonio Gerli. 1944: Gerli was divided by the creation of the Lanús Partido. 11 November 2005: Gerli was officially declared a municipality by the Legislature of Buenos Aires Province.
1. Population
Gerli had a population of 64,640 inhabitants 2001 census [INDEC], 31,090 in Avellaneda and 33,250 in Lanús.
1. Sport
The town is home to Club El Porvenir a football club who play in the lower leagues of Argentine football.
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1. External links
Municipal information: Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina. (in Spanish) Municipal website (in Spanish)
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Though mainly a football club, Racing also hosts other sports such as artistic gymnastics, basketball, beach soccer, boxing, chess, field hockey, futsal, handball, martial arts, roller skating, tennis, and volleyball.
The club has won the Primera División 18 times, including an unmatched streak of seven consecutive titles—five of them unbeaten—between 1913 and 1919, becoming the first club in the world to achieve this and the only one in the Americas. It has also won 15 national cups, holding the record for the most titles in the Copa Ibarguren, Copa de Honor MCBA, Copa Beccar Varela, Copa Británica, and Trofeo de Campeones (SAF).
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Police, sports, and entertainment news occupy the main spaces and supplements of Diario Popular. Based on its content, style and design, it aims the lower middle class audiences. It has many of the characteristic of the yellow press, in terms of the use of colors, fonts, use of colloquial language, and exclamation marks in titles. Currently, its average circulation on Sundays is 135,704 copies, and 85,929 from Monday to Friday. The newspaper remains a family business, with a majority in the shareholding composition of the Kraiselburd and Fascetto families.
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The Latin Rite Catholic Diocese of Avellaneda-Lanús (erected 10 April 1961, as the Diocese of Avellaneda) is in Argentina and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. It was renamed on 24 April 2001.