Alternate capital for Argentina

A national capital somewhere in the south would have been a heathy development for Argentina. Too much power is concentrated in Buenos Aires, to the detriment to the rest of the country. For one, the railroads would probably never have fallen into the recent state of disrepair. More German immigration to the south as well. On the whole, a more prosperous nation, the undisputed strongest country in South America. Amazing how much a little bit of infrastructure can change the fortunes of a country.
 
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento proposed to build a new city called Argirópolis (literally, 'Silver City') in Martín García Island, in the middle of the Rio De La Plata, to be the capital of the Estados Unidos del Río De La Plata, which, as the name indicates, it was to be based in the United States. It was something of an utopian vision of his (Sarmiento being Sarmiento, it was to be an European utopian state with no Indians or Blacks) and I'm not sure how seriously he took it. In any case, I'm not really sure than Martín García would be a good location for any city; it's 3 x 1,5 kilometers long and the terrain is poor, basically ancient rocky formations and sand and mud from the Rio De La Plata.

Sarmiento concieved Argoropolis as the capital city of a State that would have included Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay: Estados Confederados del Rio de la Plata. I do not know if it had much sense as a capital of Argentina, since it is much closer to Uruguay than the rest of Argentina, and, in the early XIX century, had been subject of foreign occupations.
 
Cordoba gets my vote...

...Pity Ushuaia is too far South - the setting is incredibly beautiful. Cordoba has good wine, I've heard...
 
A national capital somewhere in the south would have been a heathy development for Argentina. Too much power is concentrated in Buenos Aires, to the detriment to the rest of the country. For one, the railroads would probably never have fallen into the recent state of disrepair. More German immigration to the south as well. On the whole, a more prosperous nation, the undisputed strongest country in South America. Amazing how much a little bit of infrastructure can change the fortunes of a country.

So, how far from BA new capital should be?
 
A national capital somewhere in the south would have been a heathy development for Argentina. Too much power is concentrated in Buenos Aires, to the detriment to the rest of the country. For one, the railroads would probably never have fallen into the recent state of disrepair. More German immigration to the south as well. On the whole, a more prosperous nation, the undisputed strongest country in South America. Amazing how much a little bit of infrastructure can change the fortunes of a country.
Not really, the economical power held by Capital federal/BsAs would still be there, jsut that they wouldn't hold all the political power too.
 
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