The remains of a victim of the dictatorship have been identified 47 years after her disappearance.

They belong to María Angélica Mellace, who was kidnapped in 1976 and later buried unidentified in the cemetery of Chascomús, province of Buenos Aires.

Her son Marcos Mazzuco, 52, spoke to the Télam news agency after the discovery, and said it will allow him to "close a mourning".

"Knowing that we will have a place to bury her and where we can bring her flowers is a huge change for us," said the man, who lives in Tierra del Fuego.

As he recalls: "My mother was a nurse and worked in a doctor's office. She belonged to a left-wing political party".

He was six years old at the time of his mother's disappearance, after which he and his siblings were raised by grandparents.

Marcos' father, a union leader, was also disappeared by the dictatorship.

"I still haven't talked about this with my children. I don't know how to deal with it," Mazzuco revealed.

"They know that their grandmother is a desaparecida, they know her from photos, but they don't know these details about her death," he added.

María Angélica's remains were identified thanks to the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team.