Pasaje Carena
Recalls Carina, the Keel, the southern constellation that once formed part of Argo Navis, the great ship that filled the southern sky.
The Estrella neighborhood looks to the firmament: Sirio, Estrella Polar, Cruz del Sur, Pez Volador, Pez Austral, Lira. Into that constellation of names slips this short passage, christened Carena.
Carena names one of the pieces into which Argo Navis was split, the giant ship that filled the southern sky. In 1763 the astronomer Lacaille divided it into three constellations, and Carina got the keel. That is where the word comes from: the Latin carina, the sunken spine that holds up the whole hull. There shines Canopus, the second brightest star in the vault.
The neighborhood began to grow in the mid-1950s over old orchards and olive groves on the bank of the Abroñigal stream, now buried beneath the M-30. This alley was given the humblest piece of a ship: its keel, sunk in the water.