Raúl Aguilar Batres
Raúl Aguilar Batres (December 1, 1910 – May 13, 1964) was a Guatemalan civil engineer. He is the inventor of the street naming and house numbering conventions that are used in Guatemala City and other cities in Guatemala.
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[edit] Biography
Aguilar Batres was born December 1, 1910 in Guatemala City. He graduated from the Universidad Nacional in 1939 with a degree in civil engineering. He served as a university professor, as an assistant engineer on the Joint Commission on the boundary with Mexico, and in the Guatemala City Department of Planning. Aguilar Batres devised a system to rename and number the streets of Guatemala City, dividing the city into 25 zones. North-south streets were numbered as Avenidas and east-west streets as Calles. Hyphenated numbers were assigned to addresses to indicate distance in meters from a specified cross street. The system was introduced in 1947[1] and subsequently adopted by other cities such as Quetzaltenango. Aguilar Batres died May 13, 1964.
[edit] Legacy
Calle de Amatitlán in Guatemala was renamed Calzada Raúl Aguilar Batres within a few years of Aguilar Batres' death. A monument, featuring a marble bust sculpted by Rodolfo Galeotti Torres was created in 1970 and placed on Calzada Aguilar Batres in zone 11 of Guatemala City.
[edit] References
- ^ Ramírez, Alberto (April 4, 2004). "Las zonas fantasma de la capital" ([dead link]). Prensa Libre. http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/2004/abril/04/85365.html
[edit] Further reading
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- "Monumento a Raúl Aguilar Batres recobra su esplendor". Tú eres la Ciudad. Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Guatemala. August 30, 2007. http://www.nuestramuni.com/index.php/component/content/article/60-parques/69-monumentos.html. Retrieved April 11, 2009.
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