1569 Evita & Eva Duarte Perón - Palermo (Buenos Aires) - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

Main-belt asteroid 1569 Evita (1948 PA) bears name the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón, Eva Duarte Perón. The given coordinates mark the monument devoted to popular president's wife, which is located in Recoleta district of Buenos Aires. Eva Perón was commonly known by the affectionate Spanish diminutive form of her name - Evita.

Asteroid 1569 Evita (1948 PA) was discovered by Argentine astronomer Miguel Itzigsohn at La Plata Astronomical Observatory (Argentina) on August 3, 1948.

The monument, work of Argentinian artist Ricardo Giannetti was ceremonially unveiled by president Carlos Menem on December 3rd, 1999. There was an earlier draft for the Evita monument, adopted in 1952, which was never completed due to the overthrow of the Peronist government in September 1955.

María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is usually referred to as Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita. She was born in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children. At 15 in 1934, she moved to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. She met Colonel Juan Perón there on 22 January 1944 during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Argentina. The two were married the following year. Juan Perón was elected President of Argentina in 1946; during the next 6 years, Eva Perón became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.

In 1951, Eva Perón announced her candidacy for the Peronist nomination for the office of Vice President of Argentina, receiving great support from the Peronist political base, low-income and working-class Argentines who were referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones". However, opposition from the nation's military and bourgeoisie, coupled with her declining health, ultimately forced her to withdraw her candidacy. In 1952, shortly before her death from cancer at 33, Eva Perón was given the title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress. Eva Perón was given a state funeral upon her death, a prerogative generally reserved for heads of state.

Eva Perón has become a part of international popular culture, page needed] most famously as the subject of the musical Evita (1976). Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez, Evita's great-niece, claims that Evita has never left the collective consciousness of Argentines. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the first elected female President of Argentina, claims that women of her generation owe a debt to Eva for "her example of passion and combativeness". [wiki]