Villa 26, Informal settlement in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Villa 26, also called Villa Riachuelo, was a shanty town on the Riachuelo riverbank in Barracas, Buenos Aires, bounded by Perdriel street, a wall parallel to Pedro de Luján, the river and Puente Bosch. It measured about 300 metres along the water and only 30 metres wide, and had a dining hall and shelter called Los Ángeles.

Villa 26, also called Villa Riachuelo, stood on a strip about 300 metres long and 30 metres wide along the Riachuelo in Barracas, between Calle Perdriel, a wall parallel to Pedro de Luján, the river and Puente Bosch. A 2005 IVC census counted 597 residents. In April 2010 they learned of the eviction; Judge Roberto Gallardo signed injunctions for 1,200 families of Villa 26, Villa 21-24 and other Nueva Pompeya settlements. Acumar relocated residents between 2014 and 2019 to new housing in Barracas and Parque Avellaneda under mortgage commitments.

The settlement's dining hall, Los Ángeles, doubled as a shelter for residents. The name Villa Riachuelo, though shared with a separate Barracas neighbourhood, tied the place to the riverbank it occupied. Residents left between 2014 and 2019 for new homes in Barracas and Parque Avellaneda under mortgage agreements.

Villa 26 no longer exists: its residents were relocated between 2014 and 2019, and the site now holds paths, parks and streets. The former settlement lay along the Riachuelo between Calle Perdriel and Puente Bosch, in Barracas. Look for the riverside walkways that replaced the houses.

The settlement's dining hall, Los Ángeles, doubled as a shelter for residents. The strip it occupied measured about 300 metres along the Riachuelo and only 30 metres wide, between Calle Perdriel and the Puente Bosch. Today the site holds paths, parks and streets.