MORON

formerly (193043) Seis De Septiembre, cabecera (county seat) and partido (county) of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, Argentina. It lies west of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia. In the 16th century, Morn served as a way station for travelers en route to the area that is now Chile and Peru. The present-day county was part of the Pago (country district) de las Conchas during the 17th and early 18th centuries. In 1730 the region was incorporated within the Pago de la Matanza. The Chapel of Nuestra Seora del Buen Viaje (Our Lady of the Safe Journey) became the centre of settlement for the city in 1769, and the region was named the Caada de Morn (Pass of Morn). A justice of the peace was appointed to Caada de Morn in 1784, and in the same year it became part of the county of Matanza. The area was demarcated and separated from Matanza in 1812, however. The county of Morn was officially established in 1870. It is bordered by the counties of Tres de Febrero (northeast), Matanza (southeast), Merlo (southwest), and Moreno and General Sarmiento as well as the Reconquista River (northwest). Morn county was the site of the Feb. 3, 1852, Battle of Caseros, where the Argentine military ruler Juan Manuel de Rosas was overthrown. From 1930 to 1943 the city and county were known as Seis de Septiembre in honour of a military uprising that took place on Sept. 6, 1930. Horticulture, agriculture (grains and alfalfa), and livestock raising were once widespread in Morn's formerly rural areas. The county seat is now an important industrial centre, with meat-packing, dairy production, food canning, tanning, and varied manufacturing plants. Besides Morn, other localities include Hurlingham, Castelar, Ituzaing, and Mariano J. Haedo. With the growth of the national capital, Morn has been absorbed into the suburban area of Gran Buenos Aires. Thus, its population density is greater than that in many other counties. Morn is linked to other parts of the country by road and railway. It also has an airport. Area (county) 51 square miles (131 square km). Pop. (1980) partido, 598,420. city, northern Ciego de vila provincia, east-central Cuba. Situated in the swampy coastal plain just south of the Leche Lagoon, Morn is an important regional transportation and manufacturing centre. From the hinterland come sugarcane, tobacco, cacao, coffee, fruit, cattle, and timber to be processed in the city. Asphalt and chromite are found in the vicinity. Morn is linked by railroad and highway to other urban centres along the northern coast and has an airfield. Pop. (1989 est.) 47,733. town, central highlands of Carabobo estado (state), north-central Venezuela. In 1950 the site was selected for development under the government's policy of using the revenues from the petroleum industry to foster domestic production of as many goods as possible. Morn is one of Venezuela's major industrial centres and is a seat of the government's petrochemical industry. The town is favourably situated for the manufacture of petrochemicals because it is close to raw materials (petroleum, natural gas, salt, pyrite, phosphate, and limestone); to the country's principal population centres; to Puerto Cabello (14 miles west), which is one of Venezuela's most important ports; and to a major railway and highway. Morn's well-planned industrial complex has facilities to refine petroleum and to manufacture synthetic rubber, detergents, plastics and plastic derivatives, pharmaceuticals, nylon, caustic soda, chlorine, ammonia, urea, herbicides, insecticides, explosives, and fertilizers. Pop. (1990 est.) 57,200.