The Pozo de Banfield is a former dependency of the Investigations Brigade of Banfield and a former Argentine clandestine detention center that operated between November 1974 and October 1978, in the frame of the military dictatorship that ruled the country. This clandestine detention center -that in its time was subordinated to the Mechanized Infantry Regiment of the Argentine Army- had the particularity to start operating as such during the constitutional government of María Isabel Martínez de Perón and nearly 18 months before the 1976 coup d'état., and was part of the Camps Circuit.