ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Centre of Detention, Torture and Extermination World Heritage Site

Official name

ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Centre of Detention, Torture and Extermination | UNESCO

Country

Argentina | Map

Continent

South America

Location

-34.5366° Lat, -58.4653° Lon | Map

Code

1681

Time Zone

America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires (-03, -0300)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 2023. This property is located within the complex of the Former Navy School of Mechanics in Buenos Aires, in the former Officers’ Quarters. This was the Argentine Navy’s principal secret detention centre during the civil-military dictatorship of 1976-1983. As part of a national strategy to destroy armed and nonviolent opposition to the military regime, the Officers' Quarters building at ESMA (Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada) was used for holding captive opponents who had been abducted in Buenos Aires and interrogating, torturing and eventually killing them.