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{{Short description|Capital and largest city of Argentina}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Buenos Aires
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 | image1   = Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires (40689219792) (cropped).jpg
 | caption1 = Skyline of Buenos Aires from Puerto Madero
 | image2   = Caminito en Buenos Aires (31408).jpg
 | caption2 = Caminito in La Boca
 | image3   = A View of the Obelisk, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Host Site for the 2018 G-20 Leaders' Summit (46114415381).jpg
 | caption3 = Obelisk on July 9 Avenue
 | image4   = Torre_Monumental_(Buenos_Aires)_edit.jpg
 | caption4 = Torre Monumental
 | image5   = Casa Rosada (2051973489).jpg
 | caption5 = Casa Rosada and the Plaza de Mayo
 | image6   = Catedral Metropolitana - Buenos Aires2.jpg
 | caption6 = Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
 | image7   = Frente del Teatro Colón.jpg
 | caption7 = Teatro Colón
 | image8   = Palacio_del_Congreso_in_Buenos_Aires_(6370115601).jpg
 | caption8 = Palace of the Argentine National Congress
 | color    = green
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| image_caption      = 
| image_flag         = Bandera de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.svg
| image_shield       = Escudo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.svg
| image_blank_emblem = Logotipo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.svg
| blank_emblem_type  = Brandmark
| nicknames          = Baires,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cooperatingvolunteers.com/home/5-cosas-que-tienes-que-ver-en-buenos-aires/ | title=5 cosas que tienes que ver en Buenos aires | date=7 March 2016 }}</ref> The Queen of El Plata ({{lang|es|La reina del Plata}})<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.perfil.com/sociedad/en-la-reina-del-plata-solo-el-3-de-las-calles-tiene-nombre-de-mujer.phtml |title=En la 'Reina del Plata', sólo el 3% de las calles tiene nombre de mujer |language=es |last=Corsalini |first=Claudio |date=4 February 2017 |access-date=25 November 2017 |work=Perfil |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201103329/http://www.perfil.com/sociedad/en-la-reina-del-plata-solo-el-3-de-las-calles-tiene-nombre-de-mujer.phtml |archive-date=1 December 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Short history">{{cite book |title=Argentina: A Short History |first=Colin M. |last=Lewis |publisher=Oneworld Publications |location=Oxford |year=2002 |isbn=1-85168-300-3 }}</ref><br/>The Paris of South America ({{lang|es|La París de Sudamérica}})<ref>{{cite news |last1=Green |first1=Toby |title=The Paris of South America |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/the-paris-of-south-america-5365543.html |work=The Independent |access-date=9 June 2020 |date=4 February 2001 |archive-date=9 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609202918/https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/the-paris-of-south-america-5365543.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| map_caption        = Location in Argentina
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| coordinates        = {{coord|34|36|12|S|58|22|54|W|region:AR|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type   = Country
| subdivision_name   = {{wipe|Argentina}}
| established_title  = Established
| established_date   = *{{Start date and age|1536|02|02|df=y}} (by Pedro de Mendoza)
*{{Start date and age|1580|06|11|df=y}} (by Juan de Garay)<!-- Buenos Aires was founded twice.-->
| government_type    = Autonomous city
| governing_body     = City Legislature
| leader_title       = Mayor
| leader_name        = Jorge Macri (PRO)
| leader_title1      = National Deputies
| leader_name1       = 25
| leader_title2      = National Senators
| leader_name2       = {{Plainlist|
*Martín Lousteau (UCR)
*Guadalupe Tagliaferri (PRO)
*Mariano Recalde (FdT)}}
| area_total_km2     = 203
| area_land_km2      = 203
| area_land_sq_mi    = 78.5
| area_metro_km2     = 4758
| area_metro_sq_mi   = 1837
| elevation_m        = 25
| elevation_ft       = 82
| population_as_of   = 2022 census
| population_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.infobae.com/politica/2023/01/31/nuevos-datos-provisorios-del-censo-2022-argentina-tiene-46044703-habitantes/ |title=Nuevos datos provisorios del Censo 2022: Argentina tiene 46.044.703 habitantes |publisher=Infobae |date=31 January 2023 |access-date=2023-02-03}}</ref>
| population_density_km2 = 15,372
| population_urban   = 3,120,612
| population_metro   = 16,700,000<ref name="citypopulation">{{cite web |title=Major Agglomerations of the World - Population Statistics and Maps |url=http://www.citypopulation.de/en/world/agglomerations/|website=www.citypopulation.de |access-date=28 January 2024}}</ref>
| population_rank    = 1st
| timezone1          = ART
| utc_offset1        = −3
| area_code          = 011
| website            = {{Official URL}} {{in lang|es}}
| population_demonyms = {{lang|es|porteño}} (m), {{lang|es|porteña}} (f) <!-- Spanish demonyms are always displayed in lower-case -->
| demographics_type2 = GDP
| demographics2_footnotes = 
| demographics2_title1 = Capital city and autonomous city
| demographics2_info1 = peso 3,632 billion<br />(US$78 billion) (2019)<ref>{{cite web|title=PBG Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires|url=https://www.estadisticaciudad.gob.ar/eyc/?cat=133}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
| demographics2_title2 = Buenos Aires Province
| demographics2_info2 = peso 7,573 billion<br />(US$162 billion) (2019)<ref>{{cite web|title=PBG Buenos Aires 2019|url=http://www.estadistica.ec.gba.gov.ar/dpe/images/PBG-PBA_2019.pdf}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
| blank_name_sec2    = [[Engineering:Human Development Index|HDI]] (2021)
| blank_info_sec2    = 0.882 {{color|darkgreen|very high}} (1st)<ref name="ArgentinaHDI">{{cite web|title=El mapa del desarrollo humano en Argentina|url=https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2022-11/PNUD_ElMapaDelDesarrollo_FINAL_1.pdf|work=[[Organization:United Nations Development Programme|United Nations Development Programme]]|date=25 June 2023}}</ref>
| settlement_type    = Capital city and autonomous city
| official_name      = Autonomous City of Buenos Aires<br />{{nobold|''Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires''}}
}}

'''Buenos Aires''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|b|w|eɪ|n|ə|s|_|ˈ|ɛər|iː|z}} or {{IPAc-en|-|ˈ|aɪ|r|ᵻ|s}};<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2001 |title=Buenos Aires City |encyclopedia=The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |location=Boston |url=http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Buenos%20Aires |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718134051/http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Buenos%20Aires |archive-date=18 July 2011 }}</ref> {{IPA-es|ˈbwenos ˈajɾes|-|Es Buenos Aires.ogg}}),<ref>{{citation|last=Wells|first=John C.|year=2008|title=Longman Pronunciation Dictionary|edition=3rd|publisher=Longman|isbn=9781405881180}}</ref> officially the '''Autonomous City of Buenos Aires''',{{efn|{{lang-es|link=no|Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires}}}} is the capital and primate city of {{wipe|Argentina}}. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on [[Earth:South America|South America's]] southeastern coast. "{{lang|es|Buenos Aires}}" is Spanish for "fair winds" or "good airs". Buenos Aires is classified as an [[Global city|Alpha global city]], according to the [[Organization:Globalization and World Cities Research Network|Globalization and World Cities Research Network]] (GaWC) 2020 ranking.<ref>{{cite web |title=The World According to GaWC 2020 |url=https://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2020t.html |website=GaWC – Research Network |publisher=Globalization and World Cities |access-date=31 August 2020 |archive-date=24 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824031341/https://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2020t.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province.<ref>{{Cite book |title=La federalización de Buenos Aires: debates y documentos |last=Ruiz Moreno |first=Isidro |publisher=Buenos Aires: Hyspamerica |year=1986 |isbn=978-950-614-467-8 |location=Buenos Aires }}</ref> The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores; both are now neighborhoods of the city. The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name of Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Its citizens first elected a Chief of Government in 1996; previously, the Mayor was directly appointed by the President of Argentina.

The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fifth-most populous metropolitan area in the [[Earth:Americas|Americas]], with a population of around 13.8&nbsp;million.<ref name="indecpop">{{cite web |url = http://www.censo2010.indec.gov.ar/preliminares/cuadro_totalpais.asp |title = Censo 2010. Resultados provisionales: cuadros y grá |access-date=25 February 2011 |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101220143832/http://www.censo2010.indec.gov.ar/preliminares/cuadro_totalpais.asp |archive-date=20 December 2010 }}</ref> It is also the second largest city south of the Tropic of Capricorn. The [[Philosophy:Quality of life|quality of life]] in Buenos Aires was ranked 91st in the world in 2018, being one of the best in Latin America.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mercer.com/newsroom/2018-quality-of-living-survey.html |title=Vienna tops Mercer's 20th Quality of Living ranking |publisher=Mercer |access-date=15 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416012652/https://www.mercer.com/newsroom/2018-quality-of-living-survey.html |archive-date=16 April 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://mobilityexchange.mercer.com/Insights/quality-of-living-rankings |title=2018 Quality of Living City Rankings |publisher=Mercer |access-date=15 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418074611/https://mobilityexchange.mercer.com/Insights/quality-of-living-rankings |archive-date=18 April 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, it was the most visited city in South America, and the second-most visited city of Latin America.<ref name="visitada">{{cite news |url=http://www.infobae.com/2012/06/14/1052348-mexico-df-buenos-aires-y-san-pablo-los-destinos-turisticos-favoritos |title=México DF, Buenos Aires y San Pablo, los destinos turísticos favoritos |work=Infobae |language=es |access-date=18 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010011111/http://www.infobae.com/2012/06/14/1052348-mexico-df-buenos-aires-y-san-pablo-los-destinos-turisticos-favoritos |archive-date=10 October 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>

It is known for its preserved [[Eclecticism|eclectic]] European architecture<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/argentina/travel-tips-and-articles/76692 |title=Introduction to architecture in Buenos Aires |publisher=Lonely Planet |date=14 June 2011 |access-date=18 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118104835/http://www.lonelyplanet.com/argentina/travel-tips-and-articles/76692 |archive-date=18 January 2015 }}</ref> and rich [[Social:Culture|cultural life]].<ref name="adventurelife">{{cite web |url=http://www.adventure-life.com/articles/buenos-aires-83 |title=Buenos Aires History and Culture |publisher=Adventure Life |access-date=28 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916190255/http://www.adventure-life.com/articles/buenos-aires-83/ |archive-date=16 September 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is a [[Philosophy:Multiculturalism|multicultural]] city that is home to multiple ethnic and religious groups, contributing to its culture as well as to the dialect spoken in the city and in some other parts of the country. This is because since the 19th century, the city, and the country in general, has been a major recipient of millions of immigrants from all over the world, making it a [[Social:Melting pot|melting pot]] where several ethnic groups live together. Thus, Buenos Aires is considered one of the most diverse cities of the Americas.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/cultos/turismo-religioso |author=Buenos Aires Ciudad |title=Turismo Religioso |language=es |access-date=25 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105115134/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/cultos/turismo-religioso |archive-date=5 January 2016 }}</ref> Buenos Aires held the 1st FIBA World Championship in 1950 and 11th FIBA World Championship in 1990, the 1st Pan American Games in 1951, was the site of two venues in the 1978 FIFA World Cup and one in the 1982 FIVB Men's World Championship. Most recently, Buenos Aires had a venue in the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship and in the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, hosted the 125th IOC Session in 2013, the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympic.org/news/buenos-aires-elected-as-host-city-for-2018-youth-olympic-games/202222 |title=Buenos Aires elected as Host City for 2018 Youth Olympic Games |publisher=International Olympic Committee |date=4 July 2013 |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711112820/http://www.olympic.org/news/buenos-aires-elected-as-host-city-for-2018-youth-olympic-games/202222 |archive-date=11 July 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the 2018 G20 summit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clarin.com/politica/Argentina-elegida-sede-G-20_0_1603039808.html |title=Argentina fue elegida sede del G-20 para 2018 |first=Natasha |last=Niebieskikwiat |work=clarin.com |date=27 June 2016 |access-date=29 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160628140647/http://www.clarin.com/politica/Argentina-elegida-sede-G-20_0_1603039808.html |archive-date=28 June 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Etymology==

[[File:Nuestra Señora del Buen Aire plaza Cerdeña.jpg|upright|left|thumb|Our Lady of Buen Aire in front of the National Migration Department]]

[[Place:Crown of Aragon|Aragonese]] archives record that Catalan missionaries and Jesuits arriving in Cagliari (Sardinia) under the Crown of Aragon, after its capture from the Pisans in 1324, established their headquarters on top of a hill that overlooked the city.<ref name="catalanname" /> The hill was known to them as ''Bonaira'' (or ''Bonaria'' in Sardinian), as it was free of the foul smell prevalent in the old city (the castle area), which is adjacent to swampland. During the siege of Cagliari, the Catalans built a sanctuary to the Virgin Mary on top of the hill. In 1335, King Alfonso the Gentle donated the church to the Mercedarians, who built an [[Religion:Abbey|abbey]] that stands to this day. In the years after that, a story circulated, claiming that a statue of the Virgin Mary was retrieved from the sea after it miraculously calmed a storm in the [[Place:Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean Sea]]. The statue was placed in the abbey. Spanish sailors, especially Andalusians, venerated this image and frequently invoked the "Fair Winds" to aid them in their [[Earth:Navigation|navigation]] and prevent shipwrecks. A sanctuary to the Virgin of Buen Ayre would later be erected in Seville.<ref name="catalanname">{{cite web | url=http://en.todobuenosaires.com/buenos_aires/en/historia/origenombre.php | title=Origin of the name Buenos Aires | publisher=Todo Buenos Aires | access-date=18 January 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119003340/http://en.todobuenosaires.com/buenos_aires/en/historia/origenombre.php | archive-date=19 January 2015 | url-status=live }}</ref>

At the foundation of Buenos Aires, Spanish sailors arrived in the Río de la Plata giving thanks to the blessings of "Santa Maria de los Buenos Aires", "Holy Mary of the Good Winds", who they believed to have given them the good winds to reach the coast of what is today the modern city.<ref name="banderin"/> Pedro de Mendoza called the city "Holy Mary of the Fair Winds", a name suggested by the chaplain of Mendoza's expedition – a devotee of the Virgin of Buen Ayre – after the ''Madonna'' of Bonaria from Sardinia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pittau.it/Sardo/bonaria.html|title=Massimo Pittau – La Madonna di Bonaria di Cagliari e Buenos Aires|work=pittau.it|access-date=13 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208055821/http://www.pittau.it/Sardo/bonaria.html|archive-date=8 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> (which is still to this day the patroness of the [[Place:Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] island<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avvenire.it/Chiesa/Pagine/papa-francesco-a-cagliari-legame-bonaria-buenos-aires.aspx|title=Quel legame mariano tra Bonaria e Buenos Aires|work=avvenire.it|date=21 September 2013|access-date=13 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208055821/http://www.avvenire.it/Chiesa/Pagine/papa-francesco-a-cagliari-legame-bonaria-buenos-aires.aspx|archive-date=8 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>). Mendoza's settlement soon came under attack by indigenous people and was abandoned in 1541.<ref name="banderin">{{cite web | language=es | url=http://rotaryba.com.ar/?page_id=80 | title=Nuestro Banderín | publisher=Buenos Aires Rotary Club | access-date=18 January 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119004113/http://rotaryba.com.ar/?page_id=80 | archive-date=19 January 2015 | url-status=live }}</ref>

For many years, the name was attributed to a Sancho del Campo, who is said to have exclaimed: ''How fair are the winds of this land!'' as he arrived. In 1882, after conducting extensive research in Spanish archives, Argentine merchant Eduardo Madero ultimately concluded that the name was instead closely linked with the devotion of the sailors to Our Lady of Buen Ayre.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/estudiotopogrfi00martgoog | quote=sancho del campo buenos aires. | title=Estudio topográfico é historia demografica de la ciudad de Buenos Aires | publisher=Compañía Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco | author=B. Martinez, Alberto | year=1889 | location=Buenos Aires | page=[https://archive.org/details/estudiotopogrfi00martgoog/page/n26 14]}}</ref> A second (and permanent) settlement was established in 1580 by Juan de Garay, who sailed down the Paraná River from [[Place:Asunción|Asunción]], now the capital of Paraguay. Garay preserved the name originally chosen by Mendoza, calling the city ''Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María del Buen Aire'' ("City of the Most Holy Trinity and Port of Saint Mary of the Fair Winds"). The short form that eventually became the city's name, "Buenos Aires", became commonly used during the 17th century.<ref name="provincia">{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/ciudad/historico/calendario/destacado.php?menu_id=23203&ide=44 |title=Calendario Histórico – Segunda fundación de Buenos Aires |language=es |publisher=Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires |access-date=9 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024201506/http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/ciudad/historico/calendario/destacado.php?menu_id=23203&ide=44 |archive-date=24 October 2012 }}</ref>

The usual abbreviation for Buenos Aires in Spanish is Bs.As.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spanish.about.com/od/writtenspanish/a/abbreviations.htm|title=Spanish Abbreviations|publisher=About.com|access-date=18 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404051117/http://spanish.about.com/od/writtenspanish/a/abbreviations.htm|archive-date=4 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> It is also common to refer to it as "B.A." or "BA".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allacronyms.com/_internet_slang/BA/Buenos_Aires|title=BA Abbreviation|publisher=allacronyms.com|access-date=18 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119013148/http://www.allacronyms.com/_internet_slang/BA/Buenos_Aires|archive-date=19 January 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> When referring specifically to the autonomous city, it is very common to colloquially call it "Capital" in Spanish. Since the autonomy obtained in 1994, it has been called "CABA" (per ''Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires'', Autonomous City of Buenos Aires).

==History==
 <!--notably "War of Independence" and "19th and 20th centuries" sections-->
{{for timeline|Timeline of Buenos Aires}}

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{{flagicon image|Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg}} Kingdom of Spain - Habsburg, 1536–1700 <br />
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{{flagicon image|Flag of the Argentine Confederation.svg}} [[Place:Argentine Confederation|Argentine Confederation]], 1831–1852 <br />
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===Viceregal times===
[[File:Garay2.jpg|thumb|left|Juan de Garay founding Buenos Aires in 1580. The initial settlement, founded by Pedro de Mendoza, had been abandoned since 1542.]]

In 1516, navigator and explorer Juan Díaz de Solís, navigating in the name of Spain, was the first European to reach the Río de la Plata. His expedition was cut short when he was killed during an attack by the native Charrúa tribe in what is now Uruguay. The city of Buenos Aires was first established as ''Ciudad de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre''<ref name="Short history"/> (literally "City of Our Lady Saint Mary of the Fair Winds") after Our Lady of Bonaria (Patroness Saint of Sardinia) on 2 February 1536 by a Spanish expedition led by Pedro de Mendoza. The settlement founded by Mendoza was located in what is today the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires, south of the city center.

More attacks by the indigenous people forced the settlers away, and in 1542, the site was thusly abandoned.<ref>[http://www.laeducacion.com/vinculos/materias/historia/not020107.htm Aborígenes de la Argentina] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605092500/http://www.laeducacion.com/vinculos/materias/historia/not020107.htm |date=5 June 2014 }}. (Spanish) John D. Torres Barreto. Retrieved 9 February 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.mendoza.edu.ar/efemerid/p_mendoz.htm Pedro de Mendoza]. (Spanish) Retrieved 8 February 2012. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711021051/http://www.mendoza.edu.ar/efemerid/p_mendoz.htm |date=11 July 2014 }}</ref> A second (and permanent) settlement was established on 11 June 1580 by Juan de Garay, who arrived by sailing down the Paraná River from [[Place:Asunción|Asunción]] (now the capital of Paraguay). He dubbed the settlement "Santísima Trinidad" and its port became "Puerto de Santa María de los Buenos Aires."<ref name="provincia"/>

From its earliest days, Buenos Aires depended primarily on trade. During most of the 17th century, Spanish ships were menaced by pirates, so they developed a complex system where ships with military protection were dispatched to Central America in a convoy from Seville (the only port allowed to trade with the American colonies) to [[Place:Lima|Lima, Peru]], and from there to the other cities of the viceroyalty. Because of this, products took a very long time to arrive in Buenos Aires, and the taxes generated by the transport made them prohibitive. This scheme frustrated the traders of Buenos Aires, and a thriving informal, yet tolerated by the authorities, contraband industry developed inside the viceroyalties and with the Portuguese. This also instilled a deep resentment among ''porteños'' towards the Spanish authorities.<ref name="Short history"/>
[[File:Buenos Aires (Aldus Verthoont, ca 1628).jpg|thumb|''Aldus verthoont hem de stadt Buenos Ayrros geleegen in Rio de la Plata'', painting by a Dutch sailor who anchored at the port around 1628.]]

Sensing these feelings, Charles III of Spain progressively eased the trade restrictions before finally declaring Buenos Aires an open port in the late 18th century. The capture of Portobelo in Panama by British forces also fueled the need to foster commerce via the Atlantic route, to the detriment of Lima-based trade. One of his rulings was to split a region from the Viceroyalty of Perú and create instead the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, with Buenos Aires as the capital. However, Charles's placating actions did not have the desired effect, and the ''porteños'', some of them versed in the ideology of the {{wipe|French Revolution}}, instead became even more convinced of the need for independence from Spain.

===War of Independence===

[[File:General view of Buenos Ayres from the Plaza de Toros - Emeric Essex Vidal - Picturesque illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video (1820).jpg|thumb|Emeric Essex Vidal, ''General view of Buenos Ayres from the Plaza de Toros'', 1820. In this area now lies the Plaza San Martín.]]
[[File:Pellegrini Buenos Aires Catedral.jpg|thumb|Impression of the Buenos Aires Cathedral by ''Carlos Pellegrini'', 1829.]]

During the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, British forces attacked Buenos Aires twice. In 1806 the British successfully invaded Buenos Aires, but an army from [[Place:Montevideo|Montevideo]] led by Santiago de Liniers defeated them. In the brief period of British rule, the viceroy Rafael Sobremonte managed to escape to Córdoba and designated this city as capital. Buenos Aires became the capital again after its recapture by Argentine forces, but Sobremonte could not resume his duties as viceroy. Santiago de Liniers, chosen as new viceroy, prepared the city against a possible new British attack and repelled a second invasion by Britain in 1807. The militarization generated in society changed the balance of power favorably for the criollos (in contrast to peninsulars), as well as the development of the Peninsular War in Spain.

An attempt by the peninsular merchant Martín de Álzaga to remove Liniers and replace him with a Junta was defeated by the criollo armies. However, by 1810 it would be those same armies who would support a new revolutionary attempt, successfully removing the new viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros. This is known as the [[History:May Revolution|May Revolution]], which is now celebrated as a national holiday. This event started the Argentine War of Independence, and many armies left Buenos Aires to fight the diverse strongholds of royalist resistance, with varying levels of success. The government was held first by two Juntas of many members, then by two [[Social:Triumvirate|triumvirate]]s, and finally by a unipersonal office, the Supreme Director. Formal independence from Spain was declared in 1816, at the Congress of Tucumán. Buenos Aires managed to endure the whole Spanish American wars of independence without falling again under royalist rule.

Historically, Buenos Aires has been Argentina's main venue of [[Philosophy:Liberalism|liberal]], [[Social:Free trade|free-trading]], and foreign ideas. In contrast, many of the provinces, especially those to the city's northwest, advocated a more [[Social:Nationalism|nationalistic]] and Catholic approach to political and social issues. In fact, much of the internal tension in Argentina's history, starting with the centralist-federalist conflicts of the 19th century, can be traced back to these contrasting views. In the months immediately following said "May Revolution", Buenos Aires sent a number of military envoys to the provinces with the intention of obtaining their approval. Instead, the enterprise fueled tensions between the capital and the provinces; many of these missions ended in violent clashes.

In the 19th century the city was blockaded twice by naval forces: by the French from 1838 to 1840, and later by an Anglo-French expedition from 1845 to 1848. Both blockades failed to bring the Argentine government to the negotiating table, and the foreign powers eventually desisted from their demands.

===19th and 20th century===
[[File:Av. de Mayo y Lima (ca. 1915).JPG|upright|left|thumb|View of the Avenida de Mayo in 1915]]
During most of the 19th century, the political status of the city remained a sensitive subject. It was already the capital of Buenos Aires Province, and between 1853 and 1860 it was the capital of the seceded State of Buenos Aires. The issue was fought out more than once on the battlefield, until the matter was finally settled in 1880 when the city was federalized and became the seat of government, with its mayor appointed by the president. The Casa Rosada became the seat of the president.<ref name="provincia"/>

Health conditions in poor areas were appalling, with high rates of tuberculosis. Contemporaneous public health physicians and politicians typically blamed both the poor themselves and their ramshackle tenement houses (conventillos) for the spread of the dreaded disease. People ignored public-health campaigns to limit the spread of contagious diseases, such as the prohibition of spitting on the streets, the strict guidelines to care for infants and young children, and quarantines that separated families from ill loved ones.<ref>Diego Armus, ''The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950'' (2011)</ref>

In addition to the wealth generated by customs duties and Argentine foreign trade in general, as well as the existence of fertile pampas, railroad development in the second half of the 19th century increased the economic power of Buenos Aires as raw materials flowed into its factories. A leading destination for immigrants from Europe, particularly Italy and Spain, from 1880 to 1930, Buenos Aires became a multicultural city that ranked itself alongside the major European capitals. During this time, the Colón Theater became one of the world's top opera venues, and the city became the regional capital of radio, television, cinema, and theater. The city's main avenues were built during those years, and the dawn of the 20th century saw the construction of South America's tallest buildings and its first underground system. A second construction boom, from 1945 to 1980, reshaped downtown and much of the city.

[[File:Buenos Aires - San Nicolás - Construcción del Obelisco.jpg|thumb|Construction of the Obelisk of Buenos Aires on the 9 de Julio Avenue, 1936.]]

Buenos Aires also attracted migrants from Argentina's provinces and neighboring countries. [[Engineering:Shanty town|Shanty town]]s (''villas miseria'') started growing around the city's industrial areas during the 1930s, leading to pervasive social problems and social contrasts with the largely upwardly mobile Buenos Aires population. These laborers became the political base of [[Social:Peronism|Peronism]], which emerged in Buenos Aires during the pivotal demonstration of 17 October 1945, at the Plaza de Mayo.<ref name="Clarín guide">''Guía visual de Buenos Aires centro histórico'', ''Clarín'' Viajes, 2001.</ref> Industrial workers of the Greater Buenos Aires industrial belt have been Peronism's main support base ever since, and Plaza de Mayo became the site for demonstrations and many of the country's political events; on 16 June 1955, however, a splinter faction of the Navy bombed the Plaza de Mayo area, killing 364 civilians (see ''Bombing of Plaza de Mayo''). This was the only time the city was attacked from the air, and the event was followed by a military uprising which deposed President Perón, three months later (see ''Revolución Libertadora'').

In the 1970s the city suffered from the fighting between left-wing revolutionary movements (Montoneros, ERP and F.A.R.) and the [[Social:Right-wing politics|right-wing]] paramilitary group Triple A, supported by Isabel Perón, who became president of Argentina in 1974 after Juan Perón's death.

The March 1976 coup, led by General Jorge Videla, only escalated this conflict; the "[[Social:Dirty War|Dirty War]]" resulted in 30,000 ''[[Social:Forced disappearance|desaparecidos]]'' (people kidnapped and killed by the military during the years of the junta).<ref name="Millions">''We are Millions: Neo-liberalism and new forms of political action in Argentina'', Marcela Lópéz Levy, Latin America Bureau, London, 2004. {{ISBN|978-1899365630}}</ref> The silent marches of their mothers (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo) are a well-known image of Argentines' suffering during those times. The dictatorship's appointed mayor, Osvaldo Cacciatore, also drew up plans for a network of freeways intended to relieve the city's acute traffic gridlock. The plan, however, called for a seemingly indiscriminate razing of residential areas and, though only three of the eight planned were put up at the time, they were mostly obtrusive raised freeways that continue to blight a number of formerly comfortable neighborhoods to this day.
[[File:Buenos Aires, 1986.jpg|thumb|9 de Julio Avenue, 1986.]]

The city was visited by [[Biography:Pope John Paul II|Pope John Paul II]] twice, firstly in 1982 and again in 1987; on these occasions gathered some of the largest crowds in the city's history. The return of democracy in 1983 coincided with a cultural revival, and the 1990s saw an economic revival, particularly in the construction and financial sectors.

On 17 March 1992, a bomb exploded in the Israeli Embassy, killing 29 and injuring 242. Another explosion, on 18 July 1994, destroyed a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more, these incidents marked the beginning of [[Place:Middle East|Middle East]]ern [[Social:Terrorism|terrorism]] to South America. Following a 1993 agreement, the Argentine Constitution was amended to give Buenos Aires [[Autonomy|autonomy]] and rescinding, among other things, the president's right to appoint the city's mayor (as had been the case since 1880). On 30 June 1996, voters in Buenos Aires chose their first elected mayor, Jefe de Gobierno.

===21st century===
[[File:Microcentro, Buenos Aires (39921080405).jpg|thumb|left|Catalinas Norte is an important business complex composed of nineteen commercial office buildings and occupied by numerous leading Argentine companies, foreign subsidiaries, and diplomatic offices. It is located in the Buenos Aires Central Business District.]]

In 1996, following the 1994 reform of the Argentine Constitution, the city held its first mayoral elections under the new statutes, with the mayor's title formally changed to "Head of Government". The winner was Fernando de la Rúa, who would later become President of Argentina from 1999 to 2001.

De la Rúa's successor, Aníbal Ibarra, won two popular elections, but was impeached (and ultimately deposed on 6 March 2006) as a result of the fire at the República Cromagnon nightclub. In the meantime, Jorge Telerman, who had been the acting mayor, was invested with the office. In the 2007 elections, Mauricio Macri of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party won the second-round of voting over Daniel Filmus of the Frente para la Victoria (FPV) party, taking office on 9 December 2007. In 2011, the elections went to a second round with 60.96 percent of the vote for PRO, compared to 39.04 percent for FPV, thus ensuring Macri's reelection as mayor of the city with María Eugenia Vidal as deputy mayor.<ref>[http://especiales.perfil.com/elecciones-capital-2011/resultadosjefe.php Elecciones 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081711/http://especiales.perfil.com/elecciones-capital-2011/resultadosjefe.php |date=4 March 2016 }} – Perfil</ref>

PRO is established in the most affluent area of the city and in those over fifty years of age.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-87136-2007-06-25.html|title=Página/12 :: El país :: Macri ganó en todos lados, pero en el norte ganó más|access-date=8 August 2021|archive-date=8 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808163247/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-87136-2007-06-25.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The 2015 elections were the first to use an [[Social:Electronic voting|electronic voting]] system in the city, similar to the one used in Salta Province.<ref>[http://www.informatesalta.com.ar/noticia.asp?q=79437 Más de 300 mil porteños probaron ayer el voto electrónico] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622152210/http://informatesalta.com.ar/noticia.asp?q=79437 |date=22 June 2017 }} – InformateSalta, 27 April 2015</ref> In these elections held on 5 July 2015, Macri stepped down as mayor and pursue his presidential bid and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta took his place as the mayoral candidate for PRO. In the first round of voting, FPV's Mariano Recalde obtained 21.78% of the vote, while Martín Lousteau of the ECO party obtained 25.59% and Larreta obtained 45.55%, meaning that the elections went to a second round since PRO was unable to secure the majority required for victory.<ref>[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1807919-elecciones-portenas-2015-amplio-triunfo-de-horacio-rodriguez-larreta-pero-habria-ballottage-con-martin-lousteau Elecciones porteñas 2015: amplio triunfo de Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, pero habrá ballottage con Martín Lousteau] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730150032/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1807919-elecciones-portenas-2015-amplio-triunfo-de-horacio-rodriguez-larreta-pero-habria-ballottage-con-martin-lousteau |date=30 July 2015 }} – La Nacion, 5 July 2015</ref> The second round was held on 19 July 2015 and Larreta obtained 51.6% of the vote, followed closely by Lousteau with 48.4%, thus, PRO won the elections for a third term with Larreta as mayor and Diego Santilli as deputy. In these elections, PRO was stronger in wealthier northern Buenos Aires, while ECO was stronger in the southern, poorer neighborhoods of the city.<ref>[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1811251-comparativo-con-la-primera-vuelta-asi-variaron-los-resultados-de-larreta-y-lousteau Mapa de resultados ballottage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723072116/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1811251-comparativo-con-la-primera-vuelta-asi-variaron-los-resultados-de-larreta-y-lousteau |date=23 July 2015 }} – La Nacion, 19 July 2015.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/194350/pros-rodriguez-larreta-elected-buenos-aires-city-mayor-in-tight-runoff|title=PRO's Rodriguez Larreta elected Buenos Aires city mayor in tight runoff|access-date=14 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022141340/http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/194350/pros-rodriguez-larreta-elected-buenos-aires-city-mayor-in-tight-runoff|archive-date=22 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> On 5 December 2023, Jorge Macri of PRO was sworn in as new mayor of Buenos Aires City to succeed outgoing Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta of the same party.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jorge Macri sworn in as new mayor of Buenos Aires City {{!}} Buenos Aires Times |url=https://batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/jorge-macri-sworn-in-as-buenos-aires-mayor-promises-to-revise-urban-code.phtml |work=batimes.com.ar}}</ref>

==Geography==
[[File:Satellite image of Buenos Aires, Argentina - December 19, 2014.jpg|thumb|Satellite view of the Greater Buenos Aires area, and the Río de la Plata.]]
The city of Buenos Aires lies in the pampa region, with the exception of some areas such as the Buenos Aires Ecological Reserve, the Boca Juniors (football club)'s "sports city", Jorge Newbery Airport, the Puerto Madero neighborhood and the main port itself; these were all built on reclaimed land along the coasts of the Rio de la Plata (the world's widest river).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.borello.com.ar/Notas%20de%20Interes/Notas_Riodelaplata.htm |title=Cuenca del Plata |publisher=Borello.com.ar |access-date=13 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726235500/http://www.borello.com.ar/Notas%20de%20Interes/Notas_Riodelaplata.htm |archive-date=26 July 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.argentinaxplora.com/activida/geogra/geogra.htm |title=Geografia de Argentina |publisher=Argentinaxplora.com |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701083906/http://www.argentinaxplora.com/activida/geogra/geogra.htm |archive-date=1 July 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bue.gov.ar/especiales/?id=2 |title=Sitio oficial de turismo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires &#124; LA CIUDAD DE TODOS LOS ARGENTINOS |language=es |publisher=Bue.gov.ar |access-date=13 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221144630/http://bue.gov.ar/especiales/?id=2 |archive-date=21 February 2009 }}</ref>

The region was formerly crossed by different [[Earth:Creek (stream)|streams]] and lagoons, some of which were refilled, and others tubed. Among the most important streams are the Maldonado, Vega, Medrano, Cildañez, and White. In 1908, as floods were damaging the city's infrastructure, many streams were channeled and rectified; furthermore, starting in 1919, most streams were enclosed. Most notably, the Maldonado was tubed in 1954; it currently runs below Juan B. Justo Avenue.

===Parks===
[[File:Buenos Aires Botanical Gardens, 15th. Jan. 2011 - Flickr - PhillipC (1).jpg|thumb|Buenos Aires Botanical Garden]]

Buenos Aires has over 250 parks and green spaces, the largest concentration of which are on the city's eastern side in the neighborhoods of Puerto Madero, Recoleta, Palermo, and Belgrano. Some of the most important are:

*Parque Tres de Febrero was designed by urbanist Jordán Czeslaw Wysocki and architect Julio Dormal. The park was inaugurated on 11 November 1875. The subsequent dramatic economic growth of Buenos Aires helped to lead to its transfer to the municipal domain in 1888, whereby French Argentine urbanist Carlos Thays was commissioned to expand and further beautify the park, between 1892 and 1912. Thays designed the Zoological Gardens, the Botanical Gardens, the adjoining Plaza Italia and the Rose Garden.
*Botanical Gardens, designed by French architect and landscape designer Carlos Thays, the garden was inaugurated on 7 September 1898. Thays and his family lived in an {{wipe|England}} style mansion, located within the gardens, between 1892 and 1898, when he served as director of parks and walks in the city. The mansion, built in 1881, is currently the main building of the complex.
*Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens Is the largest of its type in the world, outside Japan. Completed in 1967, the gardens were inaugurated on the occasion of a State visit to Argentina by Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko of Japan.
*Plaza de Mayo Since being the scene of [[History:May Revolution|May Revolution]] of 1810 that led to Argentinian independence, the plaza has been a hub of political life in Argentina.
*Plaza San Martín is a park located in the city's neighborhood of Retiro. Situated at the northern end of pedestrianized Florida Street, the park is bounded by Libertador Ave. (N), Maipú St. (W), Santa Fe Avenue (S), and Leandro Alem Av. (E).

===Climate===
Under the [[Earth:Köppen climate classification|Köppen climate classification]], Buenos Aires has a [[Earth:Humid subtropical climate|humid subtropical climate]] (''Cfa'') with four distinct seasons.<ref name=amba>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227015825/http://www.atlasdebuenosaires.gov.ar/aaba/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=22 |archive-date=27 February 2014 |url=http://www.atlasdebuenosaires.gov.ar/aaba/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=22 |title=Clima |publisher=Atlas Ambiental de Buenos Aires |language=es |access-date=24 December 2015}}</ref><ref name=Peel>{{cite journal |author1= Peel, M. C. |author2= Finlayson B. L. |author3= McMahon, T. A. |year= 2007 |title= Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification |journal= Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. |volume= 11 |issue= 5 |pages= 1633–1644 |doi= 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 |url= http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1633/2007/hess-11-1633-2007.pdf |issn= 1027-5606 |access-date= 22 February 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120203170339/http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1633/2007/hess-11-1633-2007.pdf |archive-date= 3 February 2012 |url-status= live |bibcode= 2007HESS...11.1633P |doi-access= free }}</ref> As a result of maritime influences from the adjoining [[Earth:Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic Ocean]],<ref name= Pezza2010>{{cite journal |last1=Pezza |first1=Alexandre |last2=Simmonds |first2=Ian |last3=Coelho |first3=Caio |year=2010 |title=The unusual Buenos Aires snowfall of July 2007 |journal=Atmospheric Science Letters |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=249–254 |doi=10.1002/asl.283 |bibcode = 2010AtScL..11..249P |doi-access=free }}</ref> the climate is temperate with extreme temperatures being rare.<ref name=clima>{{cite web |url=http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/clima |title=Clima |date=16 April 2013 |publisher=Official Tourism site of Buenos Aires |language=es |access-date=24 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126070716/http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/clima |archive-date=26 January 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> Because the city is located in an area where the [[Earth:Pampero (wind)|Pampero]] and [[Earth:Sudestada|Sudestada]] winds pass by,<ref name=CC>{{cite web |url=http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/med_ambiente/apra/des_sust/archivos/pacc/cap2_pacc_ba3030.pdf |title=Capítulo 2: Impacto en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires |work=Plan de Acción Buenos Aires 2030 |publisher=Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires |language=es |access-date=29 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005053828/http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/med_ambiente/apra/des_sust/archivos/pacc/cap2_pacc_ba3030.pdf |archive-date=5 October 2011 }}</ref> the weather is variable due to these contrasting air masses.{{sfn|Blouet|2010|p=391}}
[[File:Plaza San Martín, Buenos Aires (27146002798).jpg|thumb|left|Heavy rain and thunderstorm in Plaza San Martin. Thunderstorms are usual during the summer.]]

Summers are hot and humid.<ref name=clima/> The warmest month is January, with a daily average of {{convert|24.9|°C|1}}.<ref name=SMN>{{cite web |url= http://www3.smn.gob.ar/serviciosclimaticos/?mod=elclima&id=10 |title= Caracteristicas Climaticas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires |publisher= Servicio Meteorológico Nacional |language= es |access-date= 29 May 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180101030123/http://www3.smn.gob.ar/serviciosclimaticos/?mod=elclima&id=10 |archive-date= 1 January 2018 |url-status= live }}</ref> Heat waves are common during summers.<ref name=SMNsummer>{{cite web |url=http://www3.smn.gob.ar/serviciosclimaticos/clima/archivo/verano.pdf |title=El Verano en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires |publisher=Servicio Meteorológico Nacional |language=es |access-date=3 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101030513/http://www3.smn.gob.ar/serviciosclimaticos/clima/archivo/verano.pdf |archive-date=1 January 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> However, most heat waves are of short duration (less than a week) and are followed by the passage of the cold, dry Pampero wind which brings violent and intense thunderstorms followed by cooler temperatures.{{sfn|Blouet|2010|p=391}}<ref name=pampero>{{cite web |url= http://www3.smn.gob.ar/?mod=biblioteca&id=73 |title= Viento Pampero |publisher= Servicio Meteorológico Nacional |language= es |access-date= 2 January 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180101082154/http://www3.smn.gob.ar/?mod=biblioteca&id=73 |archive-date= 1 January 2018 |url-status= live }}</ref> The highest temperature ever recorded was {{convert|43.3|°C|0}} on 29 January 1957.<ref name=SMN112anos>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728170957/https://www.smn.gob.ar/noticias/112-a%C3%B1os-midiendo-el-tiempo-de-buenos-aires |archive-date=28 July 2018 |url=https://www.smn.gob.ar/noticias/112-años-midiendo-el-tiempo-de-buenos-aires |title=112 años midiendo el tiempo de Buenos Aires |publisher=Servicio Meteorológico Nacional |language=es |access-date=28 July 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> In January 2022, a heatwave caused power grid failure in parts of Buenos Aires metropolitan area affecting more than 700,000 households.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Some 700,000 households without electricity amid intense heat in Buenos Aires|url=https://en.mercopress.com/2022/01/12/some-700-000-households-without-electricity-amid-intense-heat-in-buenos-aires|access-date=2022-01-12|website=MercoPress|language=en}}</ref>

Winters are cool with mild temperatures during the day and chilly nights.<ref name=clima/> Highs during the season average {{convert|16.6|C|1}} while lows average {{convert|8.3|C|1}}.<ref name=SMNwinter>{{cite web |url=http://www3.smn.gob.ar/serviciosclimaticos/clima/archivo/invierno.pdf |title=El Invierno en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires |publisher=Servicio Meteorológico Nacional |language=es |access-date=24 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101082220/http://www3.smn.gob.ar/serviciosclimaticos/clima/archivo/invierno.pdf |archive-date=1 January 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Relative humidity averages in the upper 70s%, which means the city is noted for moderate-to-heavy fogs during autumn and winter.<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 19 April 2010 | title = Atlas Ambiental de Buenos Aires | url = http://www.atlasdebuenosaires.gov.ar/aaba/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=324&Itemid=160&lang=es | work = AABA | language = es | date = 19 April 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110706083449/http://www.atlasdebuenosaires.gov.ar/aaba/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=324&Itemid=160&lang=es | archive-date = 6 July 2011 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref> July is the coolest month, with an average temperature of {{convert|11.0|°C|1}}.<ref name=SMN/> Cold spells originating from Antarctica occur almost every year, and can persist for several days.<ref name=SMNwinter/> Occasionally, warm air masses from the north bring warmer temperatures.<ref name = Bejaran2003>{{cite journal |last1=Bejaran |first1=R. |last2=Camilloni |first2=I. |year=2003 |title=Objective method for classifying air masses: an application to the analysis of Buenos Aires' (Argentina) urban heat island intensity |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225703325 |journal=Theoretical and Applied Climatology |publisher=Springer-Verlag |volume=74 |issue=1–2 |pages=93–103 |doi=10.1007/s00704-002-0714-4 |access-date=12 March 2016 |bibcode=2003ThApC..74...93B |s2cid=96475360 |archive-date=31 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231062855/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225703325_Objective_method_for_classifying_air_masses_An_application_to_the_analysis_of_Buenos_Aires%27_Argentina_urban_heat_island_intensity |url-status=live |hdl=11336/147367 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> The lowest temperature ever recorded in central Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Central Observatory) was {{convert|-5.4|°C|0}} on 9 July 1918.<ref name=SMN112anos/> [[Physics:Snow|Snow]] is very rare in the city: the last snowfall occurred on 9 July 2007 when, during the coldest winter in Argentina in almost 30 years, severe snowfalls and blizzards hit the country. It was the first major snowfall in the city in 89 years.<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 24 January 2008 | title = Buenos Aires sees rare snowfall | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6286484.stm | work = BBC News | date = 10 July 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080317202817/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6286484.stm | archive-date = 17 March 2008 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | access-date = 24 January 2008 | title = Buenos Aires gets first snow since 1918 | url = https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-07-09-argentina-snow_N.htm | work = USA Today | date = 9 July 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080120224659/http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-07-09-argentina-snow_N.htm | archive-date = 20 January 2008 | url-status = live }}</ref>

Spring and autumn are characterized by changeable weather conditions.<ref name=britannica>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Buenos-Aires |title=Buenos Aires |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=3 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113175639/https://www.britannica.com/place/Buenos-Aires |archive-date=13 November 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Cold air from the south can bring cooler temperatures while hot humid air from the north brings hot temperatures.{{sfn|Blouet|2010|p=391}}

The city receives {{convert|1257.6|mm|0|abbr=on}} of precipitation per year.<ref name = SMN/> Because of its [[Physics:Geomorphology|geomorphology]] along with an inadequate drainage network, the city is highly vulnerable to flooding during periods of heavy rainfall.<ref name=Barros2006>{{cite web |last1=Barros |first1=Vicente |last2=Menéndez |first2=Angel |last3=Natenzon |first3=Claudia |last4=Kokot |first4=Roberto |last5=Codignotto |first5=Jorge |last6=Re |first6=Mariano |last7=Bronstein |first7=Pablo |last8=Camilloni |first8=Inés |year=2006 |url=http://www.start.org/Projects/AIACC_Project/working_papers/Working%20Papers/AIACC_WP26_Barros%20(rev)%201.pdf |title=Vulnerability to floods in the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires under future climate change |work=AIACC Working Paper No. 26 |publisher=Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC) |access-date=13 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313202345/http://www.start.org/Projects/AIACC_Project/working_papers/Working%20Papers/AIACC_WP26_Barros%20(rev)%201.pdf |archive-date=13 March 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Kreimer|2000|p=28-29}}{{sfn|Kreimer|2000|p=32}}{{sfn|Kreimer|2000|p=36}}

{{Clear}}
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| archive-date = 8 July 2023
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==Government and politics==

===Government structure===
[[File:Buenos_Aires,_Argentina-02.jpg|thumb|upright|The Buenos Aires City Hall in the right corner of the entrance to the Avenida de Mayo]]

Since the adoption of the city's Constitution in 1996, Buenos Aires has counted with a democratically elected executive; Article 61 of the Constitution of the states that "''Suffrage is free, equal, secret, universal, compulsory and non-accumulative. Resident aliens enjoy this same right, with its corresponding obligations, on equal terms with Argentine citizens registered in the district, under the terms established by law''."<ref>{{cite web

The Chief of Government and the Legislature are both elected for four-year terms; half of the Legislature's members are renewed every two years. Elections use the D'Hondt method of proportional representation. The judicial branch comprises the Supreme Court of Justice (''Tribunal Superior de Justicia''), the Council of Magistracy (''Consejo de la Magistratura''), the Public Ministry, and other city courts.

Legally, the city has less autonomy than the Provinces. In June 1996, shortly before the city's first Executive elections were held, the Argentine National Congress issued the National Law 24.588 (known as Ley Cafiero, after the Senator who advanced the project) by which the authority over the 25,000-strong Argentine Federal Police and the responsibility over the federal institutions residing at the city (e.g., National Supreme Court of Justice buildings) would not be transferred from the National Government to the Autonomous City Government until a new consensus could be reached at the National Congress. Furthermore, it declared that the Port of Buenos Aires, along with some other places, would remain under constituted federal authorities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/324047-100799-0-Qu%C3%A9-dice-la-Ley-Cafiero |title=''Infobae'': Qué dice la Ley Cafiero |language=es |publisher=Infobae.com |date=30 January 2011 |access-date=2 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328173455/http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/324047-100799-0-Qu%C3%A9-dice-la-Ley-Cafiero |archive-date=28 March 2012 }}</ref> {{As of|2011}}, the deployment of the Metropolitan Police of Buenos Aires is ongoing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metropolitana.gob.ar/nosotros.html |title=Policía Metropolitana |publisher=Metropolitana.gob.ar |access-date=15 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903013239/http://www.metropolitana.gob.ar/nosotros.html |archive-date=3 September 2011 }}</ref>

Beginning in 2007, the city has embarked on a new decentralization scheme, creating new Communes (''comunas'') which are to be managed by elected committees of seven members each. Buenos Aires is represented in the Argentine Senate by three senators ({{As of|2017|lc=y}}, Federico Pinedo, Marta Varela and Pino Solanas).<ref>[http://www.senado.gov.ar/senadores/listados/listaSenadoRes Senate of the Nation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304213155/http://www.senado.gov.ar/senadores/listados/listaSenadoRes |date=4 March 2016 }}. Retrieved 5 July 2017.</ref> The people of Buenos Aires also elect 25 national deputies to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.

===Law enforcement===
[[File:Personal de la Policia Metropolitana 02.jpg|thumb|left|Metropolitan Police of Buenos Aires City]]
The ''Guardia Urbana de Buenos Aires'' (Buenos Aires Urban Guard) was a specialized civilian force of the city of Buenos Aires, {{wipe|Argentina}}, that used to deal with different urban conflicts with the objective of developing actions of prevention, dissuasion and mediation, promoting effective behaviors that guarantee the security and the integrity of public order and social coexistence. The unit continuously assisted the personnel of the Argentine Federal Police, especially in emergency situations, events of massive concurrence, and protection of tourist establishments. Urban Guard officials did not carry any weapons in the performing of their duties. Their basic tools were a HT radio transmitter and a whistle. {{as of|2008|March}}, the Guardia Urbana was removed.

The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Police was the police force under the authority of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. The force was created in 2010 and was composed of 1,850 officers. In 2016, the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Police and part of the Argentine Federal Police were merged to create the new Buenos Aires City Police force. The Buenos Aires City Police force began operations on 1 January 2017. Security in the city is now the responsibility of the Buenos Aires City Police.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201701/175301-policia-de-la-ciudad-nuevos-uniformes-entro-en-vigencia.html|title=Entró en funciones la nueva Policía de la Ciudad|website=Telam.com.ar|access-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118053305/http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201701/175301-policia-de-la-ciudad-nuevos-uniformes-entro-en-vigencia.html|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The police is headed by the Chief of Police who is appointed by the head of the executive branch of the city of Buenos Aires. Geographically, the force is divided into 56 stations throughout the city. All police station employees are civilians. The Buenos Aires City Police force is composed of over 25,000 officers.

==Demographics==
===Census data===
{{Historical populations|1950|5,166,140|1960|6,761,837|1970|8,416,170|1980|9,919,781|1990|11,147,566|2000|12,503,871|2010|14,245,871|2019|15,057,273|align=right|footnote=for Buenos Aires Agglomeration:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/buenos-aires-population/ |title=Buenos Aires population |access-date=5 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006000218/http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/buenos-aires-population/ |archive-date=6 October 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

In the census of 2010, there were 2,891,082 people residing in the city.<ref name="indec4701">{{cite web|url = http://www.censo2010.indec.gov.ar/preliminares/cuadro_caba.asp|title = Censo 2010|access-date = 20 October 2015|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923202027/http://www.censo2010.indec.gov.ar/preliminares/cuadro_caba.asp|archive-date = 23 September 2015|df = dmy-all}}</ref> The population of Greater Buenos Aires was 13,147,638 according to 2010 census data.<ref>{{cite web|title = Censo 2010 Argentina|url = http://www.censo2010.indec.gov.ar/preliminares/cuadro_resto.asp|website = www.censo2010.indec.gov.ar|access-date = 20 October 2015|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151008110227/http://www.censo2010.indec.gov.ar/preliminares/cuadro_resto.asp|archive-date = 8 October 2015|df = dmy-all}}</ref> The population density in Buenos Aires proper was {{convert|13,680|/km2|/mi2|disp=preunit|inhabitants&nbsp;|inhabitants|sp=us}}, but only about {{convert|2,400|/km2|/mi2|abbr=on}} in the suburbs.<ref name="Pop">{{cite web|url=http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/buenos-aires-population/|title=Buenos Aires Population 2018 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs)|website=Worldpopulationreview.com|access-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006000218/http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/buenos-aires-population/|archive-date=6 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Buenos Aires' population has hovered around 3 million since 1947, due to low birth rates and a slow migration to the suburbs. However, the surrounding districts have expanded over fivefold (to around 10&nbsp;million) since then.<ref name=indec4701/>

The 2001 census showed a relatively aged population: with 17% under the age of fifteen and 22% over sixty, the people of Buenos Aires have an age structure similar to those in most European cities. They are older than Argentines as a whole (of whom 28% were under 15, and 14% over 60).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indec.mecon.ar?censo2001s2_2/ampliada_index.asp?mode=02 |title=Indec:Instituto Nacional De Estadistica Y Censos De La Republica Argentina |publisher=Indec.mecon.ar?censo2001s2_2 |access-date=1 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914001556/http://www.indec.mecon.ar/?censo2001s2_2%2Fampliada_index.asp%3Fmode=02 |archive-date=14 September 2016 }}</ref>

Two-thirds of the city's residents live in apartment buildings and 30% in single-family homes; 4% live in sub-standard housing.<ref name=censo>{{cite web |url=http://www.indec.mecon.ar/nuevaweb/cuadros/2/p020201.xls |title=2001 Census |access-date=9 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113154311/http://www.indec.mecon.ar/nuevaweb/cuadros/2/p020201.xls |archive-date=13 November 2009 }}</ref> Measured in terms of income, the city's [[Finance:Poverty threshold|poverty rate]] was 8.4% in 2007 and, including the metro area, 20.6%.<ref name=buestat>{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/buscador.php?tipopubli=1&anio=&mes=&palabras= |title=Buenos Aires Statistical Monthly, June 2008 |publisher=Buenosaires.gov.ar |access-date=9 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090919191834/http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/buscador.php?tipopubli=1&anio=&mes=&palabras= |archive-date=19 September 2009 }}</ref> Other studies estimate that 4 million people in the metropolitan Buenos Aires area live in poverty.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.mercopress.com/2009/06/19/four-million-live-in-poverty-in-metropolitan-buenos-aires |title=Four million live in poverty in metropolitan Buenos Aires |publisher=En.mercopress.com |access-date=9 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831185559/http://en.mercopress.com/2009/06/19/four-million-live-in-poverty-in-metropolitan-buenos-aires |archive-date=31 August 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The city's resident labor force of 1.2&nbsp;million in 2001 was mostly employed in the services sector, particularly social services (25%), commerce and tourism (20%) and business and financial services (17%); despite the city's role as Argentina's capital, public administration employed only 6%. Manufacturing still employed 10%.<ref name=censo/>

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===Districts===
The city is divided into ''barrios'' (neighborhoods) for administrative purposes, a division originally based on Catholic ''parroquias'' (parishes).<ref name="city government">[http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/ Government of Buenos Aires] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128063721/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/ |date=28 January 2013 }}. Retrieved 7 August 2006.</ref> A common expression is that of the ''Cien barrios porteños'' ("One hundred ''porteño'' neighborhoods"), referring to a composition made popular in the 1940s by tango singer Alberto Castillo; however, Buenos Aires only consists of 48 official ''barrios''. There are several subdivisions of these districts, some with a long history and others that are the product of a real estate invention. A notable example is Palermo – the city's largest district – which has been subdivided into various ''barrios'', including Palermo Soho, Palermo Hollywood, Las Cañitas and Palermo viejo, among others. A newer scheme has divided the city into 15 ''comunas'' (communes).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-55934-2005-09-02.html |title=Buenos Aires con quince comunas |author=Pedro Lipcovich |newspaper=Página/12 |date=2 September 2005 |access-date=7 August 2006 |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310225158/http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-55934-2005-09-02.html |archive-date=10 March 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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===Population origin===

The majority of ''porteños'' have European origins, mostly from the Andalusian, Galician, Asturian, and Basque regions of Spain, as well as the Italian regions of Calabria, Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy, [[Place:Sicily|Sicily]] and Campania.<ref>Enrique Oteiza y Susana Novick sostienen que "''la Argentina desde el siglo XIX, al igual que Australia, Canadá o Estados Unidos, se convierte en un ''país de inmigración'', entendiendo por esto una sociedad que ha sido conformada por un fenómeno inmigratorio masivo, a partir de una población local muy pequeña.''" [http://www.iigg.fsoc.uba.ar/pobmigra/archivos/rc31.pdf (Oteiza, Enrique; Novick, Susana. and from Inmigración y derechos humanos. Política y discursos en el tramo final del menemismo. in línea&#93;. Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2000 (IIGG Documentos de Trabajo, N° 14): http://www.iigg.fsoc.uba.ar/docs/dt/dt14.pdf)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531184634/http://www.iigg.fsoc.uba.ar/pobmigra/archivos/rc31.pdf |date=31 May 2011 }}; Ribeiro, Darcy. ''Las Américas y la Civilización'' (1985). Buenos Aires:EUDEBA, pp. 449 ss.; José Luis Romero (Romero, José Luis. "Indicación sobre la situación de las masas en Argentina (1951)", in ''La experiencia argentina y otros ensayos'', Buenos Aires: Universidad de Belgrano, 1980, p. 64)</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geographia.com/argentina/buenosaires/Index.htm |title=Buenos Aires Introduction |publisher=Geographia.com |access-date=9 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423185302/http://www.geographia.com/argentina/buenosaires/Index.htm |archive-date=23 April 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> Unrestricted waves of European immigrants to Argentina starting in the mid-19th century significantly increased the country's population, even causing the number of porteños to triple between 1887 and 1915 from 500,000 to 1.5&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Solberg |first=Carl |date=May 1969 |title=Immigration and Urban Social Problems in Argentina and Chile, 1890–1914 |journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review |publisher=Duke University Press |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=215–232 |doi= 10.2307/2510818 |jstor=2510818}}</ref>

[[File:ID_201_Ex_Hotel_de_Inmigrantes_0786.jpg|thumb|left|The Immigrants' Hotel, constructed in 1906, received and assisted the thousands of immigrants arriving to the city. The hotel is now a National Museum.]]

Other significant European origins include French, Portuguese, German, Irish, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Greek, Czech, Albanian, Croatian, Slovenian, Dutch, Russian, Serbian, English, Scottish, Slovak, Hungarian and Bulgarian. In the 1980s and 1990s, there was a small wave of immigration from Romania and Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.casahistoria.net/argentina_immigration.htm#1.%20General |title=European Emigration to Argentina |publisher=Casahistoria.net |date=17 July 2009 |access-date=9 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205194421/http://casahistoria.net/argentina_immigration.htm#1.%20General |archive-date=5 February 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> There is a minority of ''criollo'' citizens, dating back to the Spanish colonial days. The ''Criollo'' and Spanish-Indigenous (mestizo) population in the city has increased mostly as a result of immigration from the inner northern provinces and from other countries such as neighboring Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile and Peru, since the second half of the 20th century.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

The [[Religion:Jews|Jewish]] community in Greater Buenos Aires numbers around 250,000 and is the largest in the country. The city is also eighth largest in the world in terms of Jewish population.<ref name="bh.org.il">{{cite web |title=The Jewish Community of Buenos Aires |url=https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/buenos-aires |publisher=The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot |access-date=13 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613111857/https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/buenos-aires |archive-date=13 June 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Most are of Northern, Western, Central, and Eastern European Ashkenazi origin, primarily Swedish, Dutch, Polish, German, and Russian Jews, with a significant Sephardic minority, mostly made up of Syrian Jews and Lebanese Jews.<ref name=vjht>{{cite web|title=The Virtual Jewish History Tour – Argentina|last=Weiner|first=Rebecca|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Argentina.html|access-date=9 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615092640/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Argentina.html|archive-date=15 June 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Important Lebanese, Georgian, Syrian and Armenian communities have had a significant presence in commerce and civic life since the beginning of the 20th century.

Most East Asian immigration in Buenos Aires comes from China. Chinese immigration is the fourth largest in Argentina, with the vast majority of them living in Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area.<ref name="chinaytaiwanesa">{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividad-china-taiwanesa|title=Colectividad China y Taiwanesa|language=es|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923223252/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividad-china-taiwanesa|archive-date=23 September 2015}}</ref> In the 1980s, most of them were from Taiwan, but since the 1990s the majority of Chinese immigrants come from the Mainland Chinese province of Fukien (Fujian).<ref name="chinaytaiwanesa"/> The mainland Chinese who came from Fukien mainly installed supermarkets throughout the city and the suburbs; these supermarkets are so common that, in average, there is one every two and a half blocks and are simply referred to as ''el chino'' ("the Chinese").<ref name="chinaytaiwanesa"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://edant.clarin.com/suplementos/pymes/2006/03/06/y-01150880.htm|title=El secreto de los negocios chinos|language=es|date=6 March 2006|last=Rodiño|first=Silvia|newspaper=Clarín. Clarín Group|access-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105115134/http://edant.clarin.com/suplementos/pymes/2006/03/06/y-01150880.htm|archive-date=5 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Japanese immigrants are mostly from the Okinawa Prefecture. They started the dry cleaning business in Argentina, an activity that is considered idiosyncratic to the Japanese immigrants in Buenos Aires.<ref name="japonesa">{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividades-japonesa|title=Colectividad Japonesa|language=es|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028101616/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividades-japonesa|archive-date=28 October 2014}}</ref> Korean Immigration occurred after the division of Korea; they mainly settled in Flores and Once.<ref name="coreana">{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividad-coreana|title=Colectividad Coreana|language=es|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328081019/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/observatorio/colectividad-coreana|archive-date=28 March 2015}}</ref>

In the {{census-ar|2010}}, 2.1% of the population or 61,876 persons declared to be Indigenous or first-generation descendants of Indigenous people in Buenos Aires (not including the 24 adjacent Partidos that make up Greater Buenos Aires).<ref name=pueblosoriginarios>{{cite web |url=http://estadisticas.tierradelfuego.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pueblos_originarios_Metropolitana.pdf |title=Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2010: Pueblos Originarios: Región Metropolitana: Serie D N<sup>o</sup> 6 |language=es |access-date=5 December 2015 |publisher=INDEC |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208073937/http://estadisticas.tierradelfuego.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pueblos_originarios_Metropolitana.pdf |archive-date=8 December 2015 }}</ref> Amongst the 61,876 persons who are of indigenous origin, 15.9% are Quechua people, 15.9% are Guaraní, 15.5% are Aymara and 11% are Mapuche.<ref name=pueblosoriginarios/> Within the 24 adjacent Partidos, 186,640 persons or 1.9% of the total population declared themselves to be Indigenous.<ref name=pueblosoriginarios/> Amongst the 186,640 persons who are of indigenous origin, 21.2% are Guaraní, 19% are Toba, 11.3% are Mapuche, 10.5% are Quechua and 7.6% are Diaguita.<ref name=pueblosoriginarios/>

In the city, 15,764 people identified themselves as Afro-Argentine in the 2010 Census.<ref name=afrodescendiente>{{cite web|url=http://www.censo2010.indec.gob.ar/CuadrosDefinitivos/P42-P_caba.pdf|title=Cuadro P42-P. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Población afrodescendiente en viviendas particulares por sexo, según grupo de edad. Año 2010|language=es|access-date=5 December 2015|publisher=INDEC|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208102042/http://www.censo2010.indec.gob.ar/CuadrosDefinitivos/P42-P_caba.pdf|archive-date=8 December 2015}}</ref>

===Urban problems===

[[File:Villa_31_de_Buenos_Aires.jpeg|thumb|Villa 31, a ''villa miseria'' in Buenos Aires]]

''Villas miseria'' are a type of slum whose size ranges from small groups of precarious houses to large communities with thousands of residents.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Van Gelder | first1 = J.L. | last2 = Cravino | first2 = M. C. | last3 = Ostuni | first3 = F. | year = 2016 | title = Housing informality in Buenos Aires: Past, present and future? | journal = Urban Studies | volume = 53 | issue = 9| pages = 1958–1975 | doi = 10.1177/0042098015581801 | bibcode = 2016UrbSt..53.1958V | s2cid = 155447028 }}</ref> In rural areas, the houses in the ''villas miseria'' might be made of mud and wood. ''Villas miseria'' are found around and inside the large cities of Buenos Aires, Rosario, Córdoba and Mendoza, among others.

Buenos Aires has below {{convert|2|m²|0|abbr=on}} of green space per person, which is 90% less than New York, 85% less than Madrid and 80% less than Paris. The World Health Organization (WHO), in its concern for public health, produced a document stating that every city should have a minimum of {{convert|9|m²|0|abbr=on}} of green space per person; an optimal amount of space per person would range from 10 to {{convert|15|m²|0|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://plusnetwork.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/how-many-metres-of-green-space-does-your-city-have/|title=How much green space does your city have?|last=sustainablecitiesnetwork|date=13 July 2011|work=wordpress.com|access-date=7 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013023002/https://plusnetwork.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/how-many-metres-of-green-space-does-your-city-have/|archive-date=13 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.defensoria.org.ar/publicaciones/pdf/justa13A.pdf |title=Los Invasores|access-date=1 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522233438/http://www.defensoria.org.ar/publicaciones/pdf/justa13A.pdf |archive-date=22 May 2014}}</ref>

===Language===
Buenos Aires' dialect of Spanish, which is known as ''Rioplatense Spanish'', is distinguished by its use of ''voseo'', ''yeísmo'', and aspiration of ''s'' in various contexts. It is heavily influenced by the dialects of Spanish spoken in Andalusia and Murcia and shares its features with that of other cities like Rosario and [[Place:Montevideo|Montevideo]], Uruguay. In the early 20th century, Argentina absorbed millions of immigrants, many of them Italians, who spoke mostly in their local dialects (mainly Neapolitan, [[Social:Sicilian language|Sicilian]] and Genoese). Their adoption of Spanish was gradual, creating a [[Social:Pidgin|pidgin]] of Italian dialects and Spanish that was called ''cocoliche''. Its usage declined around the 1950s. A phonetic study conducted by the Laboratory for Sensory Investigations of CONICET and the [[Organization:University of Toronto|University of Toronto]] showed that the [[Social:Prosody (linguistics)|prosody]] of ''porteño'' is closer to the Neapolitan language of Italy than to any other spoken language.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/762441-napolitanos-y-portenos-unidos-por-el-acento |title=Napolitanos y porteños, unidos por el acento |date=6 December 2005 |publisher=Lanacion.com.ar |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725031043/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/762441-napolitanos-y-portenos-unidos-por-el-acento |archive-date=25 July 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> Many Spanish immigrants were from Galicia, and Spaniards are still generically referred to in Argentina as ''gallegos'' (Galicians). Galician language, cuisine and culture had a major presence in the city for most of the 20th century. In recent years, descendants of Galician immigrants have led a small boom in Celtic music (which also highlighted the Welsh traditions of Patagonia). Yiddish was commonly heard in Buenos Aires, especially in the Balvanera garment district and in Villa Crespo until the 1960s. Most of the newer immigrants learn Spanish quickly and assimilate into city life.

The ''Lunfardo'' [[Social:Argot|argot]] originated within the prison population, and in time spread to all ''porteños''. Lunfardo uses words from Italian dialects, from Brazilian Portuguese, from African and Caribbean languages and even from English. Lunfardo employs humorous tricks such as inverting the syllables within a word (vesre). Today, Lunfardo is mostly heard in tango lyrics;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~tango/Articles/2001_Economist.pdf|title=A sense of where you were|website=Web.ics.purdue.edu|access-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909015550/http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~tango/Articles/2001_Economist.pdf|archive-date=9 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> the slang of the younger generations has been evolving away from it. Buenos Aires was also the first city to host a Mundo Lingo event on 7 July 2011, which have been after replicated in up to 15 cities in 13 countries.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://mundolingo.org/history|title= History of Mundo Lingo|author= <!--Not stated-->|date= 2017|website= mundolingo.org|access-date= 5 November 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171113140811/http://mundolingo.org/history|archive-date= 13 November 2017|url-status= dead|df= dmy-all}}</ref>

===Religion===
[[File:Exterior_nocturno_de_la_catedral.jpg|thumb|left|The Metropolitan Cathedral is the main Catholic church in the city.]]
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires was the second-largest Catholic city in the world after [[Place:Paris|Paris]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Catholicism and Politics in Argentina, 1810–1960|first=Austen |last=Ivereigh|year= 2016| isbn= 9781349136186| page =76 |publisher=Springer|quote= Buenos Aires was the second largest Catholic city in the world (after Paris)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Continent of Opportunity|first=Francis Edward |last=Clark|year= 1907| page =208|publisher=Princeton University Pree|quote= ... BUENOS AYRES second largest Roman Catholic city in the world, the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world...}}</ref> [[Religion:Christianity|Christianity]] is still the most prevalently practiced religion in Buenos Aires (~71.4%),<ref name="CONICETReligion19"/> a 2019 CONICET survey on religious beliefs and attitudes found that the inhabitants of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (''Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires'', AMBA) were 56.4% Catholic, 26.2% [[Religion:Irreligion|non-religious]] and 15% Evangelical; making it the region of the country with the highest proportion of irreligious people.<ref name="CONICETReligion19">{{cite web|url=http://www.ceil-conicet.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ii25-2encuestacreencias.pdf|access-date=19 November 2019|year=2019|last1=Mallimac|last2=Giménez Béliveau|last3=Esquivel|last4=Irrazábal|first1=Fortunato|first2=Verónica|first3=Juan Cruz|first4=Gabriela|title=Sociedad y Religión en Movimiento. Segunda Encuesta Nacional sobre Creencias y Actitudes Religiosas en la Argentina|language=es|publisher=Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales (CEIL). CONICET|issn=1515-7466|archive-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111060444/http://www.ceil-conicet.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ii25-2encuestacreencias.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> A previous CONICET survey from 2008 had found that 69.1% were Catholic, 18% "indifferent", 9.1% Evangelical, 1.4% Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons and 2.3% adherents to other religions.<ref name="CONICETReligion08">{{cite web|url=http://www.ceil-conicet.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/encuesta1.pdf|access-date=13 February 2020|year=2008|last1=Mallimac|last2=Esquivel|last3=Irrázabal|first1=Fortunato|first2=Juan Cruz|first3=Gabriela|title=Primera Encuesta Nacional sobre Creencias y Actitudes Religiosas en la Argentina|language=es|publisher=Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales (CEIL). CONICET|archive-date=10 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010051330/http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2008/08/27/um/encuesta1.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> The comparison between both surveys reveals that the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area is the region in which the decline of Catholicism was most pronounced during the last decade.<ref name="CONICETReligion19"/>

Buenos Aires is also home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America and the second largest in the Western Hemisphere after the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/son-244000-los-judios-que-viven-en-la-ciudad-segun-un-censo-poblacional-nid710563|title=Son 244.000 los judíos que viven en la ciudad, según un censo poblacional|work=La Nación|language=es|access-date=13 February 2020|date=6 June 2005|archive-date=26 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126042200/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/son-244000-los-judios-que-viven-en-la-ciudad-segun-un-censo-poblacional-nid710563/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=The Jewish Population of Argentina: Census and Estimate, 1887–1947|date=October 1960|pages=195–214|last=Rosenswaike|first=Ira|journal=Jewish Social Studies|publisher=Indiana University Press|volume=22|issue=4|jstor = 4465819}}</ref> The Jewish community of Buenos Aires has historically been characterized by its high level of assimilation, organization and influence in the cultural history of the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.enlacejudio.com/2013/01/14/la-comunidad-judia-argentina/|title=La comunidad judía en Argentina|language=es|date=14 January 2013|access-date=13 February 2020|publisher=Enlace Judío|location=Mexico City|archive-date=14 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214003242/https://www.enlacejudio.com/2013/01/14/la-comunidad-judia-argentina/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Buenos Aires is the seat of a Roman Catholic [[Religion:Metropolitan bishop|metropolitan archbishop]] (the Catholic [[Religion:Primate (bishop)|''primate'']] of Argentina), currently Archbishop Mario Poli. His predecessor, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, was elected to the Papacy as Pope Francis on 13 March 2013. There are Protestant, [[Religion:Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]], Eastern Catholic, [[Religion:Buddhism|Buddhist]] and various other religious minorities as well.<ref>{{cite news|title=Largest Mosque in Latin America Opens|url=http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Islam/2000/10/Largest-Mosque-In-Latin-America-Opens.aspx|publisher=Beliefnet|access-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055739/http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Islam/2000/10/Largest-Mosque-In-Latin-America-Opens.aspx|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Education===
[[File:UBA-Facultad-Derecho.jpg|thumb|University of Buenos Aires' Law School in Recoleta]]
Primary education comprises grades 1–7. Most primary schools in the city still adhere to the traditional seven-year primary school, but kids can do grades 1–6 if their high school lasts 6 years, such as ORT Argentina. Secondary education in Argentina is called ''Polimodal'' (having multiple modes) since it allows the student to choose their orientation. Polimodal is usually 3 years of schooling, although some schools have a fourth year. Before entering the first year of polimodal, students choose an orientation from the following five specializations. Some high schools depend on the University of Buenos Aires, and these require an admission course when students are taking the last year of high school. These high schools are ILSE, CNBA, Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini and Escuela de Educación Técnica Profesional en Producción Agropecuaria y Agroalimentaria (School of Professional Technique Education in Agricultural and Agrifood Production). The last two do have a specific orientation. In December 2006 the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Congress passed a new National Education Law restoring the old system of primary followed by secondary education, making secondary education obligatory and a right, and increasing the length of compulsory education to 13 years. The government vowed to put the law in effect gradually, starting in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/12/14/um/m-01327811.htm |title=Clarín article |publisher=Clarin.com |date=14 December 2006 |access-date=9 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090906014337/http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/12/14/um/m-01327811.htm |archive-date=6 September 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>

There are many public universities in Argentina, as well as a number of private universities. The University of Buenos Aires, one of the top learning institutions in South America, has produced five Nobel Prize winners and provides taxpayer-funded education for students from all around the globe.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.derecho.uba.ar/academica/asuntos_estudiantiles/intercambio.php |title=Intercambio con universidades extranjeras &#124; Facultad de Derecho – Universidad de Buenos Aires |publisher=Derecho.uba.ar |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727043309/http://www.derecho.uba.ar/academica/asuntos_estudiantiles/intercambio.php |archive-date=27 July 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fi.uba.ar/alumnos/index.php?m=280 |title=Facultad de Ingeniería – Universidad de Buenos Aires |publisher=Fi.uba.ar |access-date=13 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920171435/http://www.fi.uba.ar/alumnos/index.php?m=280 |archive-date=20 September 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://portal.educ.ar/noticias/educacion-y-sociedad/la-uba-apuesta-al-intercambio.php|title=La UBA apuesta al intercambio académico|publisher=Portal.educ.ar|access-date=13 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409210117/http://portal.educ.ar/noticias/educacion-y-sociedad/la-uba-apuesta-al-intercambio.php|archive-date=9 April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Buenos Aires is a major center for [[Social:Psychoanalysis|psychoanalysis]], particularly the [[Biography:Jacques Lacan|Lacanian]] school. Buenos Aires is home to several private universities of different quality, such as: Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, CEMA University, Favaloro University, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, University of Belgrano, University of Palermo, University of Salvador, Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy, Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales, Universidad del Museo Social Argentino, Universidad Austral, Universidad CAECE and Torcuato di Tella University.

==Economy==
{{wide image|Skyline_Puerto_Madero.jpg|800px|Puerto Madero, in the Buenos Aires Central Business District, currently represents the largest urban renewal project in the city of Buenos Aires. Having undergone an impressive revival in merely a decade, it is one of the most successful recent waterfront renewal projects in the world.<ref>Ann Breen and Dick Rigby, ''The New Waterfront: A Worldwide Urban Success Story'' – McGraw-Hill Professional</ref>}}
[[Image:Buenos Aires - Bolsa de Comercio.jpg|thumb|The Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, the main stock exchange and financial center of Argentina.]]
[[Image:Banco_Nación_(1416694260)_Buenos_Aires,_Argentina.jpg|thumb|Headquarters of the National Bank of Argentina, the national bank and the largest in the country's banking sector.]]

Buenos Aires is the financial, industrial, and commercial hub of Argentina. The economy in the city proper alone, measured by Gross Geographic Product (adjusted for purchasing power), totaled US$102.7&nbsp;billion (US$34,200 per capita) in 2020<ref name=estatico>{{cite journal|url=http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/anuario_2006/tomo1/09.pdf |title=Economía |language=es |access-date=22 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325001525/http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/anuario_2006/tomo1/09.pdf |archive-date=25 March 2009 }}</ref> and amounts to nearly a quarter of Argentina's as a whole.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.mecon.gov.ar/secpro/dir_cn/documentos/producto_bruto_geografico.xls |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313001135/http://www.mecon.gov.ar/secpro/dir_cn/documentos/producto_bruto_geografico.xls |archive-date=13 March 2008 |title=Distribution of Gross Value Added by jurisdiction and economic activity|publisher=Producto Bruto Geografico |language=es |access-date=22 January 2010}}</ref> Metro Buenos Aires, according to one well-quoted study, constitutes the 13th largest economy among the world's cities in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/richest-cities-2005.html |title=City Mayors reviews the richest cities in the world in 2005 |publisher=Citymayors.com |date=11 March 2007 |access-date=5 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918030640/http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/richest-cities-2005.html |archive-date=18 September 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Buenos Aires [[Engineering:Human Development Index|Human Development Index]] (0.889 in 2019) is likewise high by international standards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.desarrollohumano.org.ar/IDHArgentina/98_nac/98_nac.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009140109/http://www.desarrollohumano.org.ar/IDHArgentina/98_nac/98_nac.html |archive-date=9 October 2007 |title=Informe Argentino Sobre Desarrollo Humano |date=9 October 2007 |access-date=9 August 2009}}</ref>

The city's services sector is diversified and well-developed by international standards, and accounts for 76 percent of its economy (compared to 59% for all of Argentina's).<ref name=city>{{cite web|url=http://buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/buscador.php?tipopubli=4&subtipopubli=&titulo=&anio=2008&mes= |title=City of Buenos Aires Statistical Annual (2008) |publisher=Buenosaires.gov.ar |access-date=9 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090919193252/http://buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/buscador.php?tipopubli=4&subtipopubli=&titulo=&anio=2008&mes= |archive-date=19 September 2009 }}</ref> Advertising, in particular, plays a prominent role in the export of services at home and abroad. However, the financial and real estate services sector is the largest and contributes to 31 percent of the city's economy. Finance (about a third of this) in Buenos Aires is especially important to Argentina's banking system, accounting for nearly half the nation's bank deposits and lending.<ref name=city/> Nearly 300 hotels and another 300 hostels and bed & breakfasts are licensed for tourism, and nearly half the rooms available were in four-star establishments or higher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/SEC_abril_20082.pdf |title=abril 2008 para pdf.indd |access-date=9 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024201444/http://buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/SEC_abril_20082.pdf |archive-date=24 October 2012 }}</ref>

Manufacturing is, nevertheless, still prominent in the city's economy (16 percent) and, concentrated mainly in the southern part of the city. It benefits as much from high local purchasing power and a large local supply of skilled labor as it does from its relationship to massive agriculture and industry just outside the city limits. Construction activity in Buenos Aires has historically been among the most accurate indicators of national economic fortunes, and since 2006 around {{convert|3|e6m2|e6ft2|sp=us}} of construction has been authorized annually.<ref name=city/> Meat, dairy, grain, tobacco, wool and leather products are processed or manufactured in the Buenos Aires metro area. Other leading industries are automobile manufacturing, oil refining, metalworking, machine-building, and the production of textiles, chemicals, clothing and beverages.

The city's budget, per Mayor Macri's 2011 proposal, included US$6&nbsp;billion in revenues and US$6.3&nbsp;billion in expenditures. The city relies on local income and capital gains taxes for 61 percent of its revenues, while federal revenue sharing contributes 11 percent, property taxes, 9 percent, and vehicle taxes, 6 percent. Other revenues include user fees, fines, and gambling duties. The city devotes 26 percent of its budget to education, 22 percent for health, 17 percent for [[Social:Public service|public service]]s and infrastructure, 16 percent for social welfare and culture, 12 percent in administrative costs and 4 percent for law enforcement. Buenos Aires maintains low debt levels and its service requires less than 3 percent of the budget.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/presupuesto2011/pdf/02_proyecto_de_ley_de_presupuesto_2011.pdf |title= Presupuesto 2011 |access-date= 25 February 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120406051610/http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/presupuesto2011/pdf/02_proyecto_de_ley_de_presupuesto_2011.pdf |archive-date= 6 April 2012 |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Tourism===
[[File:Buenos Aires Tour Bus.jpg|thumb|left|Buenos Aires Bus, the city's tour bus service. The official estimate is that the bus carries between 700 and 800 passengers per day.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/Medio-millon-pasajeros-Bus-Turistico_0_521347973.html |title=Medio millón de pasajeros ya viajó en el Bus Turístico |language=es |date=21 July 2011 |publisher=Clarin.com |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409211848/http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/Medio-millon-pasajeros-Bus-Turistico_0_521347973.html |archive-date=9 April 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
According to the World Travel & Tourism Council,<ref name=rgi0708>{{cite web |url=http://www.wttc.travel/ |title=Wttc Travel |website=Wttc.travel |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017174501/http://www.wttc.travel/ |archive-date=17 October 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> tourism has been growing in the Argentine capital since 2002. In a survey by the travel and tourism publication Travel + Leisure Magazine in 2008, visitors voted Buenos Aires the second most desirable city to visit after [[Place:Florence|Florence]], Italy.<ref>Buenos Aires was also voted world's best South American city of fashion [http://www.travelandleisure.com/worldsbest/2008/results.cfm?cat=cities ''Travel + Leisure'' Magazine worldsbest/2008] Retrieved on 9 July 2008 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727012939/http://www.travelandleisure.com/worldsbest/2008/results.cfm?cat=cities |date=27 July 2009 }}</ref> In 2008, an estimated 2.5&nbsp;million visitors visited the city.<ref name="smith">{{cite web |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Hola-Buenos-Aires.html?c=y&page=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202145841/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Hola-Buenos-Aires.html?c=y&page=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 February 2013 |title=Buenos Aires: a City's Power and Promise |work=Smithsonian Magazine |access-date=2 May 2012 }}</ref> Buenos Aires is an international hub of highly active and diverse nightlife with bars, dance bars and nightclubs staying open well past midnight.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Nicolás|first=Cócaro|date=April 1983|title=Attractive, enigmatic Buenos Aires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UzQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35|magazine=The Rotarian|issn=0035-838X|volume=142|issue=4|access-date=February 5, 2020|page=35}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Sebreli|first=Juan José|language=Spanish|date=April 1, 2011|accessdate=February 5, 2020|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oT75KNJnNFkC&pg=PT149|page=149|title=Buenos Aires, vida cotidiana y alienación: seguido de Buenos Aires, ciudad en crisis|publisher=Penguin Random House|isbn=9789500734257}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/con-mantras-ciegas-altura-cinco-experiencias-culinarias-nid2325319|title=Con mantras, a ciegas o en altura: cinco experiencias culinarias en la ciudad|last=Cullen|first=Lucía|language=Spanish|date=January 21, 2020|accessdate=February 5, 2020|work=La Nación}}</ref>

Visitors have many options for travel such as going to a tango show, an estancia in the Province of Buenos Aires or enjoying the traditional asado. New tourist circuits have recently evolved, devoted to Argentines such as Carlos Gardel, Eva Perón or [[Biography:Jorge Luis Borges|Jorge Luis Borges]]. Before 2011, due to the Argentine peso's favorable exchange rate, its shopping centers such as Alto Palermo, Paseo Alcorta, Patio Bullrich, Abasto de Buenos Aires and Galerías Pacífico were frequently visited by tourists. Nowadays, the exchange rate has hampered tourism and shopping in particular. In fact, notable consumer brands such as Burberry and Louis Vuitton have abandoned the country due to the exchange rate and import restrictions. The city also plays host to musical festivals, some of the largest of which are Quilmes Rock, Creamfields BA, Ultra Music Festival (Buenos Aires), and the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival.
[[File:Buenos_Aires_Galerias_Pacifico_3.jpg|thumb|Galerías Pacífico is a shopping centre located at the intersection of Florida Street and Córdoba Avenue]]

The most popular tourist sites are found in the historic core of the city, specifically, in the Montserrat and San Telmo neighborhoods. Buenos Aires was conceived around the Plaza de Mayo, the colony's administrative center. To the east of the square is the ''Casa Rosada'', the official seat of the executive branch of the government of Argentina. To the north, the ''Catedral Metropolitana'' which has stood in the same location since colonial times, and the Banco de la Nación Argentina building, a parcel of land originally owned by Juan de Garay. Other important colonial institutions were Cabildo, to the west, which was renovated during the construction of Avenida de Mayo and Julio A. Roca. To the south is the ''Congreso de la Nación'' (National Congress), which currently houses the ''Academia Nacional de la Historia'' (National Academy of History). Lastly, to the northwest, is City Hall.
[[File:Puente_de_la_mujer_-_panoramio.jpg|thumb|Puente de la Mujer in Puerto Madero]]

Buenos Aires has become a recipient of LGBT tourism,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/qa-in-buenos-aires-gay-friendly-spots/|title=Q&A: Gay-Friendly Spots in Buenos Aires|last1=Haljuci|first1=Rusha|date=24 August 2010|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=29 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208055820/http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/qa-in-buenos-aires-gay-friendly-spots/?_r=0|archive-date=8 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="gayclarin">{{cite web|url=http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2003/11/01/h-05015.htm|title=Buenos Aires, nueva capital del turismo gay de Sudamérica|last1=Santagati|first1=Adriana|date=1 November 2003|work=Clarín|publisher=Clarín Group|access-date=29 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105115135/http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2003/11/01/h-05015.htm|archive-date=5 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> due to the existence of some [[Social:Gay-friendly|gay-friendly]] sites and the legalization of [[Social:Same-sex marriage|same-sex marriage]] on 15 July 2010, making it the first country in Latin America, the second in the [[Earth:Americas|Americas]], and the tenth in the world to do so. Its ''Gender Identity Law'', passed in 2012, made Argentina the "only country that allows people to change their gender identities without facing barriers such as hormone therapy, [[Medicine:Sex reassignment surgery|surgery]] or psychiatric diagnosis that labels them as having an abnormality". In 2015, the [[Organization:World Health Organization|World Health Organization]] cited Argentina as an exemplary country for providing transgender rights. Despite these legal advances, however, homophobia continues to be a hotly contested social issue in the city and the country.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20180206-activists-hold-collective-kiss-buenos-aires-protest-homophobia|title=Activists hold collective kiss in Buenos Aires to protest homophobia|date=6 February 2018|website=fRance24.com|access-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927113532/https://www.france24.com/en/20180206-activists-hold-collective-kiss-buenos-aires-protest-homophobia|archive-date=27 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Buenos Aires has various types of accommodation ranging from luxurious five star hotels in the city center to budget hotels located in suburban neighborhoods. Nonetheless, the city's transportation system allows easy and inexpensive access to the city. There were, {{as of|2008|February|lc=y}}, 23 five-star, 61 four-star, 59 three-star and 87 two or one-star hotels, as well as 25 boutique hotels and 39 apart-hotels; another 298 hostels, bed & breakfasts, vacation rentals and other non-hotel establishments were registered in the city. In all, nearly 27,000 rooms were available for tourism in Buenos Aires, of which about 12,000 belonged to four-star, five-star, or boutique hotels. Establishments of a higher category typically enjoy the city's highest occupation rates.<ref>[http://buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/SEC_abril_20082.pdf Buenos Aires Statistical Monthly, April 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024201444/http://buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/SEC_abril_20082.pdf |date=24 October 2012 }}</ref> The majority of the hotels are located in the central part of the city, in close proximity to most main tourist attractions.

==Transportation==
According to data released by [[Software:Moovit|Moovit]] in July 2017, the average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in Buenos Aires, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 79 min. 23% of public transit riders, ride for more than 2 hours every day. The average amount of time people wait at a stop or station for public transit is 14 min, while 20 percent of riders wait for over 20 minutes on average every day. The average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transit is 8.9&nbsp;km, while 21% travel for over 12&nbsp;km in a single direction.<ref>{{cite web|title=Buenos Aires Public Transportation Statistics|publisher=Global Public Transit Index by Moovit|url=https://moovitapp.com/insights/en/Moovit_Insights_Public_Transit_Index_Argentina_Buenos_Aires-1602|access-date=19 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901023228/https://moovitapp.com/insights/en/Moovit_Insights_Public_Transit_Index_Argentina_Buenos_Aires-1602|archive-date=1 September 2017|url-status=live}} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Material was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016050101/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |date=16 October 2017 }}</ref>

===Roads===
[[Image:Třída_Avenida_9_de_Julio_a_obelisk_-_Buenos_Aires_-_panoramio.jpg|thumb|left|July 9 Avenue]]

Buenos Aires is based on a rectangular grid pattern, save for natural barriers or the relatively rare developments explicitly designed otherwise (most notably, the Parque Chas neighborhood). The rectangular grid provides for {{convert|110|m|ft|0|adj=on|sp=us}}-long square blocks named ''manzanas''. Pedestrian zones in the central business district such as Florida Street are partially car-free and always bustling, access provided by bus and the Underground (subte) Line C. Buenos Aires, for the most part, is a very walkable city and the majority of residents in Buenos Aires use public transport.

Two diagonal avenues alleviate traffic and provide better access to Plaza de Mayo and the city center in general; most avenues running into and out of it are one-way and feature six or more lanes, with computer-controlled [[Green wave|green wave]]s to speed up traffic outside of peak times. The city's principal avenues include the {{convert|140|m|ft|0|adj=on|sp=us}}-wide July 9 Avenue, the over {{convert|35|km|mi|0|sp=us|adj=on}}-long Rivadavia Avenue,<ref>[http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/02/26/laciudad/h-05615.htm 'Avenida Rivadavia:Un largo recorrido de contrastes'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060627142420/http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/02/26/laciudad/h-05615.htm |date=27 June 2006 }} by Nora Sánchez, ''Clarín'', 26 February 2006</ref> and Corrientes Avenue, the main thoroughfare of culture and entertainment.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the construction of the General Paz Avenue beltway that surrounds the city along its border with Buenos Aires Province, and the freeways leading to the new international airport and to the northern suburbs, heralded a new era for Buenos Aires traffic. Encouraged by pro-automaker policies that were pursued towards the end of the Perón (1955) and Frondizi administrations (1958–62) in particular, auto sales nationally grew from an average of 30,000 during the 1920–57 era to around 250,000 in the 1970s and over 600,000 in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |author=IntermediaSP. 2007 |url=http://www.adefa.com.ar/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990125093012/http://www.adefa.com.ar/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 January 1999 |title=ADEFA |publisher=ADEFA |access-date=9 August 2009 }}</ref> Today, over 1.8&nbsp;million vehicles (nearly one-fifth of Argentina's total) are registered in Buenos Aires.<ref>[http://www.dnrpa.gov.ar/bolesta1/boletin1021/Pagina%203.htm DNRPA] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603095216/http://www.dnrpa.gov.ar/bolesta1/boletin1021/Pagina%203.htm |date=3 June 2009 }}</ref>

Toll motorways opened in the late 1970s by mayor Osvaldo Cacciatore, now used by over a million vehicles daily, provide convenient access to the city center.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mecon.gov.ar/download/infoeco/actividad_ied.xls#'1.10 |title=SS PP'!A1 |access-date=9 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090920005341/http://www.mecon.gov.ar/download/infoeco/actividad_ied.xls |archive-date=20 September 2009 }}</ref> Cacciatore likewise had financial district streets (roughly {{convert|1|km2|sp=us}} in area) closed to private cars during daytime. Most major avenues are, however, gridlocked at peak hours. Following the economic mini-boom of the 1990s, record numbers started commuting by car and congestion increased, as did the time-honored Argentine custom of taking weekends off in the countryside.

===Airports===
[[File:Ezeizaaero.jpg|thumb|Ministro Pistarini International Airport]]
The Ministro Pistarini International Airport, commonly known as ''Ezeiza Airport'', is located in the suburb of Ezeiza, in Buenos Aires Province, approximately 22&nbsp;km south of the city. This airport handles most international air traffic to and from Argentina as well as some domestic flights.

The Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport, located in the Palermo district of the city next to the riverbank, is only within the city limits and serves primarily domestic traffic within Argentina and some regional flights to neighboring South American countries.

Other minor airports near the city are El Palomar Airport, which is located 18&nbsp;km west of the city and handles some scheduled domestic flights to a number of destinations in Argentina, and the smaller San Fernando Airport which serves only general aviation.

===Urban rail===

[[File:200 Series at San José de Flores.jpg|thumb|left|200 Series rolling stock at San José de Flores station, Buenos Aires Underground.]]
[[File:Subtes-2015.svg|thumb|left|Map of a planned expansion of the Buenos Aires Underground network]]

The Buenos Aires Underground (locally known as ''subte'', from ''"subterráneo"'' meaning underground or subway), is a high-yield{{clarify|date=January 2019}} system providing access to various parts of the city. Opened in 1913, it is the oldest underground system in the Southern Hemisphere and oldest in the Spanish-speaking world. The system has six underground lines and one overground line, named by letters (A to E, and H) and there are 107 stations, and {{convert|58.8|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} of route, including the Premetro line.<ref name="metrovias">{{cite web |url=http://www.metrovias.com.ar/Metrovias/StaticPage/Institucional/Nuestra-compa%C3%B1ia/3400 |title=Nuestra compañía – ¿Qué hacemos? |publisher=Metrovias |language=es |trans-title=Our Company – What We Do |access-date=29 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716195245/http://www.metrovias.com.ar/Metrovias/StaticPage/Institucional/Nuestra-compa%C3%B1ia/3400 |archive-date=16 July 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> An expansion program is underway to extend existing [[Engineering:Rail transport|lines]] into the outer neighborhoods and add a new north–south line. Route length is expected to reach {{convert|89|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} by 2011.

Line A is the oldest one (service opened to public in 1913) and stations kept the "belle-époque" decoration, while the original rolling stock from 1913, affectionately known as ''Las Brujas'' were retired from the line in 2013. Daily ridership on weekdays is 1.7&nbsp;million and on the increase.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metrovias.com.ar/V2/CuadrosPasajeros.asp?op=11&Item=2&Lang=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707103640/http://www.metrovias.com.ar/V2/CuadrosPasajeros.asp?op=11&Item=2&Lang=|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 July 2007|title=Cuadros de Pasajeros|access-date=1 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metrovias.com.ar/V2/MetroviasNumeros.asp?op=11&Item=3&Lang=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707103727/http://www.metrovias.com.ar/V2/MetroviasNumeros.asp?op=11&Item=3&Lang=|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 July 2007|title=Metrovías en Números|access-date=1 June 2011}}</ref> [[Finance:Fare|Fare]]s remain relatively cheap, although the city government raised fares by over 125% in January 2012. A single journey, with unlimited interchanges between lines, costs AR$42, which is roughly US$0.23 as of January 2023.<ref>{{cite web|title=Conocé la tarifa según el medio de pago de todos los pasajes de subte y premetro.|url=https://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/subte/tarifas-pases-y-abonos/tarifas|work=buenosaires.gob.ar|publisher=Buenos Aires Ciudad|access-date=20 May 2020|archive-date=15 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815173833/https://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/subte/tarifas-pases-y-abonos/tarifas|url-status=live}}</ref>

The most recent expansions to the network were the addition of numerous stations to the network in 2013: San José de Flores and San Pedrito to Line A, Echeverría and Juan Manuel de Rosas to Line B and Hospitales to Line H. Current works include the completion of Line H northwards and addition of three new stations to Line E in the city center.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enelsubte.com/noticias/retorna-la-actividad-la-linea-e-retiro-117 |title=Retorna la actividad en la línea E a Retiro |publisher=enelSubte.com |date=13 April 2009 |access-date=25 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710193850/http://www.enelsubte.com/noticias/retorna-la-actividad-la-linea-e-retiro-117 |archive-date=10 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=75535 |title=Un nuevo subte unirá Pompeya con Retiro. |publisher=lanacion.com |access-date=25 March 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The construction of Line F is due to commence in 2015,<ref>[http://enelsubte.com/noticias/piccardo-anuncia-la-construccion-de-la-linea-f/ Piccardo anuncia la construcción de la línea F] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801213745/http://enelsubte.com/noticias/piccardo-anuncia-la-construccion-de-la-linea-f/ |date=1 August 2015 }} – EnElSubte, 27 April 2015</ref> while two other lines are planned for construction in the future.

The Buenos Aires commuter rail system has seven lines: Belgrano Norte; Belgrano Sur; Roca; San Martín; Sarmiento; Mitre; and Urquiza. The Buenos Aires commuter network system is very extensive: every day more than 1.3&nbsp;million people commute to the Argentine capital. These suburban trains operate between 4&nbsp;am and 1&nbsp;am. The Buenos Aires commuter rail network also connects the city with long-distance rail services to Rosario and Córdoba, among other metropolitan areas. The city center is home to four principal terminals for both long-distance and local passenger services: Constitucion, Retiro, Federico Lacroze and Once. In addition, Buenos Aires station serves as a minor terminus.
[[File:J31 576 Bf Retiro Mitre, S-Bahn-Triebzug.jpg|thumb|A Mitre Line Trenes Argentinos train in Retiro railway station]]

Commuter rail in the city is mostly operated by the state-owned Trenes Argentinos, though the Urquiza Line and Belgrano Norte Line are operated by private companies Metrovías and Ferrovías respectively.<ref>[https://www.sofse.gob.ar/acuerdos/cuadro.php Operacion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721193028/http://www.sofse.gob.ar/acuerdos/cuadro.php |date=21 July 2015 }} – SOFSE</ref><ref>[http://www.ferrovias.com.ar/institucional/index.php?sbmn=1 Nuestra Historia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150831115237/http://www.ferrovias.com.ar/institucional/index.php?sbmn=1 |date=31 August 2015 }} – Ferrovias</ref><ref>[http://www.metrovias.com.ar/Ferrocarriles Ferrocarriles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716194148/http://www.metrovias.com.ar/Ferrocarriles |date=16 July 2015 }} – Metrovias</ref> All services had been operated by Ferrocarriles Argentinos until the company's privatization in 1993, and were then operated by a series of private companies until the lines were put back under state control following a series of high-profile accidents.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/freight/single-view/view/all-concessions-revoked.html|access-date=10 June 2013|title=ALL concessions revoked|work=Railway Gazette International|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611201427/http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/freight/single-view/view/all-concessions-revoked.html|archive-date=11 June 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/economia/2-220578-2013-05-22.html "Nueva empresa estatal para el Belgrano Cargas"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924124321/http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/economia/2-220578-2013-05-22.html |date=24 September 2015 }}, ''Página/12'', 23 May 2013</ref>

Since 2013, there has been a series of large investments on the network, with all lines (with the exception of the Urquiza Line) receiving new [[Engineering:Rolling stock|rolling stock]], along with widespread infrastructure improvements, track replacement, electrification work, refurbishments of stations and building entirely new stations.<ref>[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1814516-en-agosto-comenzaran-a-funcionar-nuevos-trenes-en-la-linea-belgrano-sur En agosto comenzarán a funcionar nuevos trenes en la línea Belgrano Sur] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150808133530/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1814516-en-agosto-comenzaran-a-funcionar-nuevos-trenes-en-la-linea-belgrano-sur |date=8 August 2015 }} – La Nacion, 29 July 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201507/113896-obras-trenes-linea-mitre-servicio.html Por obras de modernización, los trenes de la línea Mitre no se detendrán en algunas estaciones] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813022637/http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201507/113896-obras-trenes-linea-mitre-servicio.html |date=13 August 2015 }} – Telam, 24 July 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1810138-suspenden-la-construccion-de-una-estacion-de-tren-junto-al-aeroparque Suspenden la construcción de una estación de tren junto al Aeroparque] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803051839/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1810138-suspenden-la-construccion-de-una-estacion-de-tren-junto-al-aeroparque |date=3 August 2015 }} – La Nacion, 14 July 2015.</ref> Similarly, almost all [[Engineering:Level crossing|level crossing]]s have been replaced by underpasses and overpasses in the city, with plans to replace all of them in the near future.<ref>[http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/noticias/la-ciudad-construye-dos-nuevos-pasos-bajo-nivel La Ciudad construye dos nuevos pasos bajo nivel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923234055/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/noticias/la-ciudad-construye-dos-nuevos-pasos-bajo-nivel |date=23 September 2015 }} – Buenos Aires Ciudad, 29 April 2014.</ref> One of the most major projects under way is the electrification of the remaining segments of the Roca Line – the most widely used in the network – and also moving the entire section of the Sarmiento Line which runs through the heart of the city's underground to allow for better frequencies on the line and reduce congestion above ground.<ref>[http://enelsubte.com/noticias/avanza-la-obra-de-electrificacion-del-roca/ Avanza la obra de electrificación del Roca] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730080810/http://enelsubte.com/noticias/avanza-la-obra-de-electrificacion-del-roca/ |date=30 July 2015 }} – EnElSubte, 18 June 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.diariobae.com/notas/53549-con-credito-de-brasil-avanza-soterramiento-del-sarmiento.html Con crédito de Brasil avanza soterramiento del Sarmiento] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923215259/http://www.diariobae.com/notas/53549-con-credito-de-brasil-avanza-soterramiento-del-sarmiento.html |date=23 September 2015 }} – Diario BAE, 20 January 2015.</ref>

There are also three other major projects on the table. The first would elevate a large segment of the San Martín Line which runs through the city center and electrify the line, while the second would see the electrification and extension of the Belgrano Sur Line to Constitucion station in the city center.<ref>[http://enelsubte.com/noticias/el-bid-podria-otorgar-creditos-para-electrificar-el-san-martin-y-el-belgrano-sur/ El BID podría otorgar créditos para electrificar el San Martín y el Belgrano Sur] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810235603/http://enelsubte.com/noticias/el-bid-podria-otorgar-creditos-para-electrificar-el-san-martin-y-el-belgrano-sur/ |date=10 August 2015 }} – EnElSubte, 10 August 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.infobae.com/2014/12/16/1615629-elevaran-las-trazas-del-ferrocarril-san-martin-y-del-belgrano-sur Elevarán las trazas del ferrocarril San Martín y del Belgrano Sur] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150808151423/http://www.infobae.com/2014/12/16/1615629-elevaran-las-trazas-del-ferrocarril-san-martin-y-del-belgrano-sur |date=8 August 2015 }} – InfoBAE, 16 December 2014.</ref> If these two projects are completed, then the Belgrano Norte Line would be the only diesel line to run through the city. The third and most ambitious is to build a series of tunnels between three of the city's railway terminals with a large underground central station underneath the Obelisk, connecting all the commuter railway lines in a network dubbed the Red de Expresos Regionales.<ref>[http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/noticias/los-detalles-de-un-obra-impactante Detalles del proyecto para conectar todos los ferrocarriles urbanos debajo del Obelisco] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612111257/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/noticias/los-detalles-de-un-obra-impactante |date=12 June 2015 }} – Buenos Aires Ciudad, 12 May 2015.</ref>

[[File:Estación_General_Savio_(4).JPG|thumb|Materfer tram at General Savio station of the Premetro]]
Buenos Aires had an extensive [[Engineering:Tram|tram]] system with over {{convert|857|km|abbr=on}} of track, which was dismantled during the 1960s after the advent of bus transportation, but surface rail transport has made a small comeback in some parts of the city. The PreMetro or Line E2 is a {{convert|7.4|km|abbr=on}} [[Engineering:Light rail|light rail]] line that connects with Underground Line E at Plaza de los Virreyes station and runs to General Savio and Centro Cívico. It is operated by Metrovías. The official inauguration took place on 27 August 1987. A {{cvt|2|km}} long modern [[Engineering:Tram|tram]]way, the Tranvía del Este, opened in 2007 in the Puerto Madero district, initially using two tramcars  on temporary loan from Mulhouse, then later a tramcar from Madrid. However, plans to extend the line and acquire a fleet of trams did not come to fruition, and declining patronage led to the line's closure in October 2012.<ref name="taut-2013jan">''Tramways & Urban Transit'', January 2013, p. 29. UK: LRTA Publishing.</ref> A heritage streetcar maintained by tram fans operates on weekends, near the Primera Junta line A Underground station in the neighborhood of Caballito.

===Cycling===
[[File:EcoBici 2.jpg|thumb|EcoBici.]]
In December 2010, the city government launched a bicycle sharing program with bicycles free for hire by users upon registration. Located in mostly central areas, there are 31 rental stations throughout the city providing over 850 bicycles to be picked up and dropped off at any station within an hour.<ref name="Better by Bike">{{cite web |url=http://www.argentinaindependent.com/tag/mejor-en-bici/ |title=Tag Archive &#124; mejor en bici |work=The Argentina Independent |date=5 October 2011 |access-date=2 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128154818/http://www.argentinaindependent.com/tag/mejor-en-bici/ |archive-date=28 November 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{As of|2013}}, the city has constructed {{convert|110|km|2|abbr=on}} of protected bicycle lanes and has plans to construct another {{convert|100|km|2|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mejorenbici.buenosaires.gob.ar/ |title=ecobici |publisher=Mejorenbici.buenosaires.gob.ar |access-date=2 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410182045/http://mejorenbici.buenosaires.gob.ar/ |archive-date=10 April 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2015, the stations were automated and the service became 24 hours through use of a smart card or mobile phone application.

===Buses===
[[File:Centro_de_Trasbordo_Federico_Lacroze_en_detalle_02.jpg|thumb|Federico Lacroze Transfer Center of the Metrobus]]

There are over 150 city bus lines called ''Colectivos'', each one managed by an individual company. These compete with each other and attract exceptionally high use with virtually no public financial support.<ref name="trb.metapress">{{cite web |url=http://trb.metapress.com/content/v5542g6mh27j6u44/ |title=Transportation Research Board, Buenos Aires Colectivo Buses and Experience with Privatization |publisher=Trb.metapress.com |date=15 January 2007 |access-date=9 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715220622/http://trb.metapress.com/content/v5542g6mh27j6u44/ |archive-date=15 July 2012 }}</ref> Their frequency makes them equal to the underground systems of other cities, but buses cover a far wider area than the underground system. Colectivos in Buenos Aires do not have a fixed timetable, but run from four to several per hour, depending on the bus line and time of the day. With inexpensive tickets and extensive routes, usually no further than four blocks from commuters' residences, the colectivo is the most popular mode of transport around the city.<ref name="trb.metapress"/>

Buenos Aires has recently opened a [[Engineering:Bus rapid transit|bus rapid transit]] system, the Metrobus. The system uses modular median stations that serve both directions of travel, which enable pre-paid, multiple-door, level boarding. The first line, opened on 31 May 2011, runs across the Juan B. Justo Ave has 21 stations.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1377920-el-metrobus-ya-une-palermo-con-liniers|title=El Metrobús ya une Palermo con Liniers|date=1 June 2011|newspaper=La Nación|access-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505232439/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1377920-el-metrobus-ya-une-palermo-con-liniers|archive-date=5 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The system now has 4 lines with 113 stations on its {{convert|43.5|km|abbr=on}} network, while numerous other lines are under construction and planned.<ref>[http://movilidad.buenosaires.gob.ar/metrobus/%C2%BFpor-que-metrobus/ ¿Por qué Metrobus?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304133235/http://movilidad.buenosaires.gob.ar/metrobus/%C2%BFpor-que-metrobus/ |date=4 March 2016 }} – Buenos Aires Ciudad</ref>

===Port===
[[File:Puerto_de_Buenos_Aires,_Argentina.jpg|thumb|Port of Buenos Aires]]
The port of Buenos Aires is one of the busiest in South America, as navigable rivers by way of the Rio de la Plata connect the port to northeastern Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. As a result, it serves as the distribution hub for said vast area of the South American continent. The Port of Buenos Aires handles over {{convert|11,000,000|t|sp=us}} annually,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.puertobuenosaires.gov.ar/estadisticas/11-2010w.pdf |title=Puerto Buenos Aires: Estadísticas |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706083833/http://www.puertobuenosaires.gov.ar/estadisticas/11-2010w.pdf |archive-date=6 July 2011 }}</ref> and Dock Sud, just south of the city proper, handles another {{convert|17,000,000|t|sp=us}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/ARG_Port_of_Dock_Sud_187.php |title=Dock Sud |publisher=World Port Source |access-date=2 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420011546/http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/ARG_Port_of_Dock_Sud_187.php |archive-date=20 April 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> Tax collection related to the port has caused many political problems in the past, including a conflict in 2008 that led to protests and a strike in the agricultural sector after the government raised export [[Finance:Tariff|tariff]]s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Argentina ends grain tax hike |work=Los Angeles Times |date=19 July 2008 |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-farmers19-2008jul19,0,2489386.story |first=Patrick J. |last=McDonnell |access-date=19 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803120812/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-farmers19-2008jul19%2C0%2C2489386.story |archive-date=3 August 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Ferries===
[[File:Colonia del Sacramento 2016 042.jpg|thumb|Buquebus high-speed ferries connect Buenos Aires to Uruguay]]

Buenos Aires is also served by a [[Engineering:Ferry|ferry system]] operated by the company Buquebus that connects the port of Buenos Aires with the main cities of Uruguay, (Colonia del Sacramento, Montevideo and Punta del Este). More than 2.2&nbsp;million people per year travel between Argentina and Uruguay with Buquebus. One of these ships is a [[Engineering:Catamaran|catamaran]], which can reach a top speed of about {{convert|80|km/h|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.buquebus.com/cache/HomeARG.html |title=Buquebus |publisher=Buquebus |access-date=9 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621063259/http://www.buquebus.com/cache/HomeARG.html |archive-date=21 June 2009 }}</ref>

===Taxis===

==Culture==
[[File:Centro Cultural Kirchner 2016.jpg|left|thumb|The Centro Cultural Kirchner (Kirchner Cultural Center), located at the former Central Post Office, is the largest of South America.]]
As Buenos Aires is strongly influenced by European culture, the city is sometimes referred to as the "Paris of South America".<ref name="Short history"/><ref>[http://travel.canoe.ca/Travel/SouthAmerica/2005/03/06/953104-sun.html 'Paris of the South'] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120723030736/http://travel.canoe.ca/Travel/SouthAmerica/2005/03/06/953104-sun.html |date=23 July 2012 }} by Kenneth Bagnell, Canoe travel, 7 March 2005.</ref> With its scores of theaters and productions, the city has the busiest live theater industry in South America.<ref>[https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118039096 Entertainment boom hits Buenos Aires] by [https://www.variety.com/biography/1827 Charles Newbery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117034554/http://www.variety.com/biography/1827/ |date=17 January 2013 }}, [https://www.variety.com/ Variety.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008053105/http://www.variety.com/ |date=8 October 2010 }}. Posted: Sat., 25 June 2011, 4:00&nbsp;am PT</ref> In fact, every weekend, there are about 300 active [[Engineering:Theater (structure)|theaters]] with plays, a number that places the city as 1st worldwide, more than either London, New York or Paris, cultural Meccas in themselves. The number of cultural festivals with more than 10 sites and five years of existence also places the city as 2nd worldwide, after Edinburgh.<ref name="lanacion.com.ar">[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1744561-avidez-por-la-cultura-buenos-aires-una-ciudad-mas-viva-que-nunca] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141119184104/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1744561-avidez-por-la-cultura-buenos-aires-una-ciudad-mas-viva-que-nunca|date=19 November 2014}} La Nacion, 2014.</ref> The Centro Cultural Kirchner (Kirchner Cultural Center), located in Buenos Aires, is the largest cultural center of Latin America,<ref>[http://www.perfil.com/politica/Cristina-inaugura-el-Centro-Cultural-Nestor-Kirchner-20150521-0004.html "Cristina inaugura el Centro Cultural Néstor Kirchner"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725195948/http://www.perfil.com/politica/Cristina-inaugura-el-Centro-Cultural-Nestor-Kirchner-20150521-0004.html |date=25 July 2015 }}, Perfil, 21 May 2015</ref><ref>[http://www.ambito.com/noticia.asp?id=791533 "Las impactantes fotos del Centro Cultural Néstor Kirchner"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150608180437/http://www.ambito.com/noticia.asp?id=791533 |date=8 June 2015 }}, Ambito Financiero, 20 May 2015</ref> and the third worldwide.<ref>[http://www.losandes.com.ar/article/la-obra-faraonica-del-legado-cultural-k "La obra faraónica del legado cultural K"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150729202151/http://www.losandes.com.ar/article/la-obra-faraonica-del-legado-cultural-k |date=29 July 2015 }}, Los Andes, 31 May 2015</ref>

Buenos Aires is the home of the Teatro Colón, an internationally rated opera house.<ref name="Time Out">''Time Out Guide: Buenos Aires'', Cathy Runciman & Leticia Saharrea (eds), Penguin Books, London, 2001. {{ISBN|0-14-029398-1}}</ref> There are several symphony orchestras and choral societies. The city has numerous museums related to arts and crafts, history, fine arts, modern arts, decorative arts, popular arts, sacred art, theater and popular music, as well as the preserved homes of noted art collectors, writers, composers and artists. The city is home to hundreds of bookstores, public libraries and cultural associations (it is sometimes called "the city of books"), as well as the largest concentration of active [[Engineering:Theater (structure)|theaters]] in Latin America. It has a zoo and botanical garden, a large number of landscaped parks and squares, as well as churches and places of worship of many denominations, many of which are architecturally noteworthy.<ref name="Time Out"/>

The city has been a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network after it was named "City of Design" in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/sites/creative-cities/files/monitoring_reports/Buenos%20Aires%20City%20of%20Design.pdf|title=Buenos Aires City of Design – Unesco|website=unesco.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180111022308/https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/sites/creative-cities/files/monitoring_reports/Buenos%20Aires%20City%20of%20Design.pdf|archive-date=11 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

===''Porteño'' identity===
[[File:Homenaje a Buenos Aires.jpg|thumb|''Homage to Buenos Aires'', a mural located at the Carlos Gardel station of the Buenos Aires Underground. It represents a typical scene from the city and several of its icons, such as singer Carlos Gardel, the Obelisco, the port, tango dancing and the Abasto market.]]

The identity of ''porteños'' has a rich and complex history, and has been the subject of much analysis and scrutiny.<ref name="blendin">{{cite web|url=http://www.argentinaindependent.com/top-5/top-5-ways-to-blend-in-as-a-porteno//|title=Top 5 Ways to Blend in as a Porteño|last=Beioley|first=Kate|date=22 August 2012|publisher=The Argentina Independent|access-date=12 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108082527/http://www.argentinaindependent.com/top-5/top-5-ways-to-blend-in-as-a-porteno/|archive-date=8 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> The great European immigration wave of the early 20th century was integral to "the growing primacy of Buenos Aires and the accompanying urban identity", and established the division between urban and rural Argentina more deeply.<ref name="LewisNouwen121">Lewis Nouwen, 2013. p.121</ref> Immigrants "brought new traditions and cultural markers to the city," which were "then reimagined in the ''porteño'' context, with new layers of meanings because of the new location."<ref name="LewisNouwen122">Lewis Nouwen, 2013. p.122</ref> The heads of state's attempt to populate the country and reframe the [[Social:National identity|national identity]] resulted in the concentration of immigrants in the city and its suburbs, who generated a culture that is a "product of their conflicts of [[Social:Racial integration|integration]], their difficulties to live and their communication puzzles."<ref name="Rojas-Mix57">Rojas-Mix, 1991. p. 57</ref> In response to the immigration wave, during the 1920s and 1930s a nationalist trend within the Argentine intellectual elite glorified the gaucho figure as an exemplary [[Social:Archetype|archetype]] of Argentine culture; its synthesis with the European traditions conformed the new urban identity of Buenos Aires.<ref name="Rojas-Mix60">Rojas-Mix, 1991. p. 60</ref> The complexity of Buenos Aires' integration and identity formation issues increased when immigrants realized that their European culture could help them gain a greater social status.<ref name="Rojas-Mix61">Rojas-Mix, 1991. p. 61</ref> As the rural population moved to the industrialized city from the 1930s onwards, they reaffirmed their European roots,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/ar/cor/prj/bic/vo4/es6890875.htm|title=Identidad y migraciones: Entrevista a Alejandro Grimson|last=Pablos|first=Gustavo|publisher=Goethe-Institut|language=es|access-date=12 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220092952/http://www.goethe.de/ins/ar/cor/prj/bic/vo4/es6890875.htm|archive-date=20 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> adopting [[Biology:Endogamy|endogamy]] and founding private schools, newspapers in foreign languages, and associations that promoted adherence to their countries of origin.<ref name="Rojas-Mix61"/>

''Porteños'' are generally characterized as night owls, cultured, talkative, uninhibited, sensitive, nostalgic, observant and arrogant.<ref name="adventurelife"/><ref name="blendin"/> Argentines outside Buenos Aires often [[Philosophy:Stereotype|stereotype]] its inhabitants as egotist people, a feature that people from the Americas and westerners in general commonly attribute to the entire Argentine population and use as the subject of numerous jokes.<ref name="ego">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/10/151015_hay_festival_chistes_sobre_argentinos_vs|title=¿Por qué los latinoamericanos hacen tantos chistes sobre los argentinos?|last=Smink|first=Veronica|date=20 October 2015|language=es|publisher=BBC Mundo|access-date=12 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161209094436/http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/10/151015_hay_festival_chistes_sobre_argentinos_vs|archive-date=9 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Writing for BBC Mundo Cristina Pérez felt that "the idea of the [Argentines'] vastly developed ego finds strong evidence in lunfardo dictionaries," in words such as "''engrupido''" (meaning "vain" or "conceited") and "''compadrito''" (meaning both "brave" and "braggart"), the latter being an archetypal figure of tango.<ref name="ego2">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2016/04/160420_cultura_argentina_ego_complejo_inferioridad_ms|title="El problema de los argentinos es que tenemos un enorme complejo de inferioridad" (no el ego)|last=Pérez|first=Cristina|date=26 April 2016|language=es|publisher=BBC Mundo|access-date=12 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221002655/http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2016/04/160420_cultura_argentina_ego_complejo_inferioridad_ms|archive-date=21 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Paradoxically, ''porteños'' are also described as highly self-critical, something that has been called "the other side of the ego coin."<ref name="ego2"/> Writers consider the existence of these behaviors the consequence of the European immigration and prosperity that the city experienced during the early 20th century, which generated a feeling of superiority in parts of the population.<ref name="ego"/>

===Art===

[[File:FachadaModerno.jpg|thumb|left|Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art.]]

Buenos Aires has a thriving arts culture,<ref name="heraldsunstreet">{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/world/south-america/buenos-aires-street-art-symbol-of-vibrant-city-and-dramatic-past/news-story/2f0642ccc271d23291380932b1a27b3a|title=Best Art in Buenos Aires|last1=Bredow|first1=Susan|date=20 June 2015|work=Herald Sun|publisher=The Herald and Weekly Times|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-date=31 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231062913/https://www.escape.com.au/destinations/south-america/buenos-aires-street-art-symbol-of-vibrant-city-and-dramatic-past/news-story/2f0642ccc271d23291380932b1a27b3a|url-status=live}}</ref> with "a huge inventory of museums, ranging from obscure to world-class."<ref>{{cite book|last=Bernhardson|first=Wayne|date=14 October 2008|title=Moon Buenos Aires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PhBn9tKce4oC&pg=PA136|publisher=Avalon Travel|page=136|isbn=978-1566919913|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208055820/https://books.google.com/books?id=PhBn9tKce4oC&pg=PA136|archive-date=8 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''barrios'' of Palermo and Recoleta are the city's traditional bastions in the diffusion of art, although in recent years there has been a tendency of appearance of exhibition venues in other districts such as Puerto Madero or La Boca; renowned venues include MALBA, the National Museum of Fine Arts, Fundación Proa, Faena Arts Center, and the Usina del Arte.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.travelandleisure.com/local-experts/buenos-aires/best-art-buenos-aires|title=Best Art in Buenos Airespast|last1=Chesterton|first1=Matt|date=August 2014|work=Travel + Leisure|publisher=Time Inc.|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223055109/http://www.travelandleisure.com/local-experts/buenos-aires/best-art-buenos-aires|archive-date=23 December 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Other popular institutions are the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, the Benito Quinquela Martín Museum, the Evita Museum, the Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco, the José Hernández Museum, and the Palais de Glace, among others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/museos-de-la-ciudad|title=Museos de la ciudad|date=8 April 2014 |language=es|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204041331/http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/museos-de-la-ciudad|archive-date=4 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> A traditional event that occurs once a year is ''La Noche de los Museos'' ("Night of the Museums"), when the city's museums, universities, and artistic spaces open their doors for free until early morning; it usually takes place in November.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/la-noche-de-los-museos|title=La Noche de los Museos|date=12 November 2013 |language=es|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204084028/http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/la-noche-de-los-museos|archive-date=4 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/city-guides/free-buenos-aires-traveler/|title=Free Things to Do in Buenos Aires|magazine=National Geographic|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107014422/http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/city-guides/free-buenos-aires-traveler|archive-date=7 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The first major artistic movements in Argentina coincided with the first signs of political liberty in the country, such as the 1913 sanction of the secret ballot and universal male suffrage, the first president to be popularly elected (1916), and the cultural revolution that involved the University Reform of 1918. In this context, in which there continued to be influence from the Paris School (Modigliani, Chagall, Soutine, Klee), three main groups arose. Buenos Aires has been the birthplace of several artists and movements of national and international relevance and has become a central motif in Argentine artistic production, especially since the 20th century.<ref name="ciudadarte">{{cite web|url=http://cvaa.com.ar/02dossiers/utopia/4_tema_01.php|title=La ciudad: arte y utopías|last=Battistozzi|first=Ana María|date=August 2005|language=es|publisher=Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino|access-date=18 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118164237/http://cvaa.com.ar/02dossiers/utopia/4_tema_01.php|archive-date=18 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> 
[[File:Malba - Milla Museos.jpg|thumb|MALBA]]

Examples include: the Paris Group – so named for being influenced by the School of Paris – constituted by Antonio Berni, Aquiles Badi, Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Raquel Forner and Alfredo Bigatti, among others; and<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cvaa.com.ar/02dossiers/grupo_paris/3_intro.php|title=El grupo de París|last=Babino|first=Malena|date=September 2007|language=es|publisher=Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino|access-date=18 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124184046/http://cvaa.com.ar/02dossiers/grupo_paris/3_intro.php|archive-date=24 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> the La Boca artists – including Benito Quinquela Martín and Alfredo Lazzari, among others – who mostly came from Italy or were of Italian descent, and usually painted scenes from working-class port neighborhoods.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cvaa.com.ar/04ingles/02dossiers_en/la_boca_en/3_intro.php|title=La Boca Artists|last1=Battiti|first1=Florencia|last2=Mezza|first2=Cintia|date=August 2006|publisher=Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino|access-date=18 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115235222/http://cvaa.com.ar/04ingles/02dossiers_en/la_boca_en/3_intro.php|archive-date=15 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> During the 1960s, the Torcuato di Tella Institute – located in Florida Street – became a leading local center for pop art, performance art, installation art, [[Philosophy:Conceptual art|conceptual art]], and experimental theater; this generation of artists included Marta Minujín, Dalila Puzzovio, David Lamelas, Clorindo Testa and Diana Dowek.

Buenos Aires has also become a prominent center of contemporary street art; its welcoming attitude has made it one of the world's top capitals of such expression.<ref name="huffstreet"/><ref name="stuffnz"/> The city's turbulent modern political history has "bred an intense sense of expression in ''porteños''", and urban art has been used to depict these stories and as a means of protest.<ref name="heraldsunstreet"/><ref name="stuffnz">{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/south-america/67631465/the-street-art-of-buenos-aires|title=The street art of Buenos Aires|last1=McFarlane|first1=Nyree|date=28 April 2015|publisher=stuff.co.nz|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151111025523/http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/south-america/67631465/the-street-art-of-buenos-aires|archive-date=11 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> However, not all of its street art concerns politics, it is also used as a symbol of democracy and freedom of expression.<ref name="heraldsunstreet"/> Murals and graffiti are so common that they are considered "an everyday occurrence," and have become part of the urban landscape of ''barrios'' such as Palermo, Villa Urquiza, Coghlan and San Telmo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infobae.com/2016/01/24/1784837-el-arte-callejero-se-expande-la-ciudad-buenos-aires|title=El arte callejero se expande por la Ciudad de Buenos Aires|last1=Gorski|first1=Alana|date=24 January 2016|publisher=Infobae|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204051508/http://www.infobae.com/2016/01/24/1784837-el-arte-callejero-se-expande-la-ciudad-buenos-aires|archive-date=4 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> This has to do with the legality of such activities —provided that the building owner has consented—, and the receptiveness of local authorities, who even subsidize various works.<ref name="huffstreet">{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/argentina-street-art_n_3224835.html|title=Argentina Welcomes Street Art, Buenos Aires Is Canvass For International Artists, Muralists|last1=Calatrava|first1=Almudena|date=5 June 2013|work=The Huffington Post|publisher=TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227095706/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/argentina-street-art_n_3224835.html|archive-date=27 February 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> The abundance of places for urban artists to create their work, and the relatively lax rules for street art, have attracted international artists such as Blu, Jef Aérosol, Aryz, ROA, and Ron English.<ref name="huffstreet"/> Guided tours to see murals and graffiti around the city have been growing steadily.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/street-Buenos-Aires-seduce-mundo_0_941905884.html|title=El street art de Buenos Aires seduce al mundo|date=21 June 2013|work=Clarín|publisher=Clarín Group|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312110328/http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/street-Buenos-Aires-seduce-mundo_0_941905884.html|archive-date=12 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Literature===
[[File:El Ateneo Grand Splendid, Buenos Aires (38796014605).jpg|thumb|left|The interior of El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a celebrated bookstore located in the ''barrio'' of Recoleta.]]
Buenos Aires has long been considered an intellectual and literary capital of Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world.<ref name="publicpages">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0dM9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|title=Public Pages: Reading Along the Latin American Streetscape|access-date=21 March 2020|last=Schwartz|first=Marcy|date=2 May 2018|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9781477315187|pages=64–84|archive-date=31 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231062913/https://books.google.com/books?id=0dM9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8KPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT174|language=es|page=174|access-date=21 March 2020|last3=Villanueva|first3=Darío|title=Lo que Borges le enseñó a Cervantes: Una introducción a la literatura comparada|last1=Domínguez|first1=César|last2=Saussy|first2=Haun|publisher=Taurus|location=Spain|year=2016|isbn=9788430618132|archive-date=16 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816045341/https://books.google.com/books?id=b8KPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT174|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite its short urban history, Buenos Aires has an abundant literary production; its mythical-literary network "has grown at the same rate at which the streets of the city earned its shores to the pampas and buildings stretched its shadow on the curb."<ref name="kallinikos">{{cite magazine|last=Komi Kallinikos|first=Christina|year=2003|title=La ciudad literaria, portador material e inmaterial de memoria|url=http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/celehis/article/viewFile/618/621|language=es|magazine=Revista del Centro de Letras Hispanoamericanas|volume=12|number=15|location=Mar del Plata, Argentina|publisher=National University of Mar del Plata|access-date=5 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206074543/http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/celehis/article/viewFile/618/621|archive-date=6 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, culture boomed along with the economy and the city emerged as a literary capital and the seat of South America's most powerful publishing industry,<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Buenos Aires|title=Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction: A Transatlantic Discourse on Urban Violence|pages=93–139|last=Close|first=Glen S.|isbn=978-1-349-60353-4|year=2008|location=United States|publisher=[[Company:Palgrave Macmillan|Palgrave Macmillan]]|doi=10.1057/9780230614635_4}}</ref> and "even if the economic path grew rocky, ordinary Argentines embraced and stuck to the habit of reading."<ref name="insiderlit"/> By the 1930s, Buenos Aires was the undisputed literary capital of the Spanish-speaking world, with Victoria Ocampo founding the highly influential ''Sur'' magazine—which dominated Spanish-language literature for thirty years—<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.proceso.com.mx/125370/victoria-ocampo-y-la-revista-sur|language=es|access-date=21 March 2020|date=3 February 1979|title=Victoria Ocampo y la revista "Sur"|location=Mexico|work=Proceso|archive-date=21 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321232032/https://www.proceso.com.mx/125370/victoria-ocampo-y-la-revista-sur|url-status=live}}</ref> and the arrival of prominent Spanish writers and editors who were escaping the civil war.<ref name="insiderlit">{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/argentinas-capital-is-the-worlds-capital-of-bookstores-2015-5|title=Argentina's capital is the world's capital of bookstores|date=1 May 2015|access-date=21 March 2020|work=Business Insider|last=Rey|first=Debora|archive-date=21 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321232033/https://www.businessinsider.com/argentinas-capital-is-the-worlds-capital-of-bookstores-2015-5|url-status=live}}</ref>

Buenos Aires is one of the most prolific book publishers in Latin America and has more bookstores per capita than any other major city in the world.<ref name="insiderlit"/><ref name="bookcapital">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/19/argentina-books-bookstores-reading|title=A novel oasis: why Argentina is the bookshop capital of the world|last1=Goñi|first1=Uki|date=20 June 2015|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|access-date=2 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151108080411/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/19/argentina-books-bookstores-reading|archive-date=8 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Buenos Aires has at least 734 bookstores—roughly 25 bookshops for every 100,000 inhabitants—far above other world cities like London, Paris, Madrid, Moscow and New York.<ref name="insiderlit"/><ref name="bookcapital"/> The city also has a thriving market for secondhand books, ranking third in terms of secondhand bookshops per inhabitant, most of them congregated along Avenida Corrientes.<ref name="bookcapital"/> Buenos Aires' book market has been described as "catholic in taste, immune to fads or fashion", with "wide and varied demand."<ref name="bookcapital"/> The popularity of reading among ''porteños'' has been variously linked to the wave of mass immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and to the city's "obsession" with psychoanalysis.<ref name="bookcapital"/>

The Buenos Aires International Book Fair has been a major event in the city since the first fair in 1975,<ref name="publicpages"/> having been described as "perhaps the most important and largest annual literary event in the Spanish-speaking world,"<ref name="bookfair19">{{cite web|url=https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/culture/ba-book-fair-returns-for-2019-what-to-look-out-for.phtml|title=Buenos Aires Book Fair returns for 2019: what to look out for|last=Lyskawa|first=Madeline|date=20 April 2019|access-date=21 March 2020|work=Buenos Aires Times|publisher=Perfil|archive-date=22 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322012435/https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/culture/ba-book-fair-returns-for-2019-what-to-look-out-for.phtml|url-status=live}}</ref> and "the most important cultural event in Latin America".<ref name="efelibro">{{cite web|url=https://www.efe.com/efe/america/cultura/la-feria-del-libro-de-buenos-aires-cierra-con-casi-dos-millones-visitantes/20000009-3975467|language=es|title=La Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires cierra con casi dos millones de visitantes|access-date=22 March 2020|date=14 May 2019|publisher=EFE|archive-date=14 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514032028/https://www.efe.com/efe/america/cultura/la-feria-del-libro-de-buenos-aires-cierra-con-casi-dos-millones-visitantes/20000009-3975467|url-status=live}}</ref> In its 2019 edition, the Book Fair was attended by 1.8 million people.<ref name="efelibro"/>

Buenos Aires was designated as the World Book Capital for the year 2011 by [[Organization:UNESCO|UNESCO]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-06-15 |title=Buenos Aires chosen by UN cultural agency as World Book Capital for 2011 |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2009/06/303362-buenos-aires-chosen-un-cultural-agency-world-book-capital-2011 |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=UN News |language=en}}</ref>

===Music===

[[File:Buenos Aires Festival y Mundial de Tango.jpg|thumb|Tango dancers during the World tango dance tournament.]]

According to the ''Harvard Dictionary of Music'', "Argentina has one of the richest art music traditions and perhaps the most active contemporary musical life" in South America.<ref name="harvardmusic">{{cite book|date=28 November 2003|title=The Harvard Dictionary of Music|url=https://archive.org/details/harvarddictionar0004unse|url-access=registration|publisher=Belknap Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/harvarddictionar0004unse/page/53 53]–54|isbn=978-0674011632|access-date=25 February 2016}}</ref> Buenos Aires boasts of several professional orchestras, including the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, the Ensamble Musical de Buenos Aires and the Camerata Bariloche; as well as various conservatories that offer professional music education, like the Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música.<ref name="harvardmusic"/> As a result of the growth and commercial prosperity of the city in the late 18th century, theater became a vital force in Argentine musical life, offering Italian and French operas and Spanish zarzuelas.<ref name="harvardmusic"/> Italian music was very influential during the 19th century and the early 20th century, in part because of immigration, but operas and salon music were also composed by Argentines, including Francisco Hargreaves and Juan Gutiérrez.<ref name="harvardmusic"/> A nationalist trend that drew from Argentine traditions, literature and folk music was an important force during the 19th century, including composers Alberto Williams, Julián Aguirre, Arturo Berutti and Felipe Boero.<ref name="harvardmusic"/> In the 1930s, composers such as Juan Carlos Paz and Alberto Ginastera "began to espouse a cosmopolitan and modernist style, influenced by twelve-tone techniques and serialism"; while avant-garde music thrived by the 1960s, with the Rockefeller Foundation financing the Centro Interamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales, which brought internationally famous composers to work and teach in Buenos Aires, also establishing an [[Physics:Electronic music|electronic music]] studio.<ref name="harvardmusic"/>
[[File:Orquesta Estudiantil de Buenos Aires (7983428800).jpg|thumb|left|The Buenos Aires Philharmonic.]]

The Río de la Plata is known for being the birthplace of tango, which is considered an emblem of Buenos Aires.<ref name="tanguerias">{{cite web|url=http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/tanguer%C3%ADas-milongas-y-clases-de-tango|title=Tanguerías, milongas y clases de tango|language=es|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=8 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107094440/http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/tanguer%C3%ADas-milongas-y-clases-de-tango|archive-date=7 January 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The city considers itself the Tango World Capital, and as such hosts many related events, the most important being an annual festival and world tournament.<ref name="tanguerias"/> The most important exponent of the genre is Carlos Gardel, followed by Aníbal Troilo; other important composers include Alfredo Gobbi, Ástor Piazzolla, Osvaldo Pugliese, Mariano Mores, Juan D'Arienzo and Juan Carlos Cobián.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/compositores |title=Compositores |language=es |publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires |access-date=8 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214164122/http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/compositores |archive-date=14 February 2016 }}</ref> Tango music experienced a period of splendor during the 1940s, while in the 1960s and 1970s nuevo tango appeared, incorporating elements of classical and jazz music. A contemporary trend is neotango (also known as electrotango), with exponents such as Bajofondo and Gotan Project. On 30 September 2009, UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee of Intangible Heritage declared tango part of the world's cultural heritage, making Argentina eligible to receive financial assistance in safeguarding tango for future generations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/tango-on-unesco-world-her_n_304023.html |title=Tango on UNESCO world heritage list |work=Huffington Post |date=30 September 2009 |access-date=1 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501114436/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/tango-on-unesco-world-her_n_304023.html |archive-date=1 May 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The city hosts several music festivals every year. A popular genre is electronic dance music, with festivals including Creamfields BA, SAMC, Moonpark, and a local edition of Ultra Music Festival. Other well-known events include the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival, Personal Fest, Quilmes Rock and Pepsi Music. Some music festivals are held in Greater Buenos Aires, like Lollapalooza, which takes place at the Hipódromo de San Isidro in San Isidro.

===Cinema===

[[File:Gaumont Cinema.jpg|thumb|upright|Gaumont Cinema opened in 1912.]]

Argentine cinema history began in Buenos Aires with the first film exhibition on 18 July 1896 at the Teatro Odeón.<ref name="surdelsur">{{cite web|url=http://surdelsur.com/es/historia-cine-argentino/|title=Historia del Cine Argentino (1896–1945)|last1=Sendrós|first1=Paraná|date=28 July 2014 |publisher=El Sur del Sur|access-date=29 February 2016|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306045440/http://surdelsur.com/es/historia-cine-argentino/|archive-date=6 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="cineoficial">{{cite web|url=http://www.argentina.gob.ar/informacion/cultura/105-cine.php|title=Cultura: Cine|publisher=Presidency of the Argentine Nation|access-date=29 February 2016|language=es|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306162448/http://www.argentina.gob.ar/informacion/cultura/105-cine.php|archive-date=6 March 2016}}</ref> With his 1897 film, ''La bandera Argentina'', Eugène Py became one of the first filmmakers of the country; the film features a waving Argentine flag located at Plaza de Mayo.<ref name="cineoficial"/> In the early 20th century, the first movie theaters of the country opened in Buenos Aires, and newsreels appeared, most notably ''El Viaje de Campos Salles a Buenos Aires''.<ref name="cineoficial"/> The real industry emerged with the advent of [[Engineering:Sound film|sound film]]s, the first one being ''Muñequitas porteñas'' (1931).<ref name="surdelsur"/><ref name="cineoficial"/> The newly founded Argentina Sono Film released ''¡Tango!'' in 1933, the first integral sound production in the country.<ref name="cineoficial"/> During the 1930s and the 1940s (commonly referred as the "Golden Age" of Argentine cinema), many films revolved around the city of Buenos Aires and tango culture, reflected in titles such as ''La vida es un tango'', ''El alma del bandoneón'', ''Adiós Buenos Aires'', ''El Cantor de Buenos Aires'' and ''Buenos Aires canta''. Argentine films were exported across Latin America, specially Libertad Lamarque's melodramas, and the comedies of Luis Sandrini and Niní Marshall. The popularity of local cinema in the Spanish-speaking world played a key role in the massification of tango music. Carlos Gardel, an iconic figure of tango and Buenos Aires, became an international star by starring in several films during that era.

In response to large studio productions, the "Generation of the 60s" appeared, a group of filmmakers that produced the first [[Philosophy:Modernism|modernist]] films in Argentina during the early years of that decade. These included Manuel Antín, Lautaro Murúa and René Mugica, among others.<ref name="surdelsur2">{{cite web|url=http://surdelsur.com/es/cine-argentino/|title=El Cine Argentino (1945–1995)|last1=Sendrós|first1=Paraná|date=29 July 2014 |publisher=El Sur del Sur|access-date=29 February 2016|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190124/http://surdelsur.com/es/cine-argentino/|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> 
[[File:La Ciudad al Aire Libre.jpg|thumb|left|A screening at Parque Centenario, as part of the 2011 edition of BAFICI]]

During the second half of the decade, films of social protest were presented in clandestine exhibitions, the work of Grupo Cine Liberación and Grupo Cine de la Base, who advocated what they called "Third Cinema". At that time, the country was under a [[Social:Military dictatorship|military dictatorship]] after the coup d'état known as Argentine Revolution. One of the most notable films of this movement is {{lang|es|La hora de los hornos}} (1968) by Fernando Solanas. During the period of democracy between 1973 and 1975, the local cinema experienced critical and commercial success, with titles including ''Juan Moreira'' (1973), ''La Patagonia rebelde'' (1974), ''La Raulito'' (1975), and ''La tregua'' (1974) – which became the first Argentine film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. However, because of censorship and a new military government, Argentine cinema stalled until the return of democracy in the 1980s. This generation – known as "Argentine Cinema in Liberty and Democracy" – were mostly young or postponed filmmakers and gained international notoriety. ''Camila'' (1984) by María Luisa Bemberg was nominated for the Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards, and Luis Puenzo's ''La historia oficial'' (1985) was the first Argentine film to receive the award.

Located in Buenos Aires is the Pablo Ducrós Hicken Museum of Cinema, the only one in the country dedicated to Argentine cinema and a pioneer of its kind in Latin America.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/museodelcine/historia|title=Museo del Cine: Historia|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=29 February 2016|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306055500/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/museodelcine/historia|archive-date=6 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Every year, the city hosts the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI), which, in its 2015 edition, featured 412 films from 37 countries, and an attendance of 380 thousand people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://festivales.buenosaires.gob.ar/2015/bafici/es|title=Un festival en constante crecimiento|publisher=Government of the City of Buenos Aires|access-date=29 February 2016|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160228200102/http://festivales.buenosaires.gob.ar/2015/bafici/es|archive-date=28 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Buenos Aires also hosts various other festivals and film cycles, like the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, devoted to horror.

===Media===
Buenos Aires is home to five Argentine television networks: America, Television Pública Argentina, El Nueve, Telefe, and El Trece. Four of them are located in Buenos Aires, and the studios of America is located in La Plata.

===Fashion===
[[File:BAFWEEK planetario.jpg|thumb|A fashion show at the Planetarium in 2013, as part of BAFWEEK.]]

Buenos Aires' inhabitants have been historically characterized as "fashion-conscious".<ref>{{cite book|last=Espsäter|first=María M.|date=8 August 2014|title=Uruguay Focus: Includes Montevideo, Punta del Este, Colonia del Sacramento|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RspUBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA92|publisher=Footprint Travel Guides|page=92|isbn=978-1909268722|access-date=4 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208055820/https://books.google.com/books?id=RspUBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA92|archive-date=8 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Davies|first1=Catherine|last2=Owen|first2=Hilary|last3=Brewster|first3=Claire|date=3 January 2007|title=South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RiAkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA266|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=266|isbn=978-1846316845|access-date=4 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208055820/https://books.google.com/books?id=RiAkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA266|archive-date=8 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Greenberg|first1=Arnold|last2=Tristan|first2=Linda|year=1999|title=Buenos Aires and the Best of Argentina Alive!|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0yQXYargRMC&pg=RA1-PA1992|publisher=Hunter Publishing|page=1992|isbn=978-1556508813|access-date=4 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208055820/https://books.google.com/books?id=W0yQXYargRMC&pg=RA1-PA1992|archive-date=8 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> National designers display their collections annually at the Buenos Aires Fashion Week (BAFWEEK) and related events.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vos.lavoz.com.ar/content/bafweek-celebra-en-grande |title=BAFWeek cumple 10 años |date=17 February 2011 |publisher=Vos.lavoz.com.ar |access-date=2 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326071741/http://vos.lavoz.com.ar/content/bafweek-celebra-en-grande |archive-date=26 March 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> Inevitably being a season behind, it fails to receive much international attention.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.argentinaindependent.com/life-style/fashion/top-5-argentine-fashion-designers/|title=Top 5 Argentine Fashion Designers|last1=Roberts|first1=Mhairi|date=6 July 2011|publisher=The Argentina Independent|access-date=1 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911161828/http://www.argentinaindependent.com/life-style/fashion/top-5-argentine-fashion-designers/|archive-date=11 September 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Nevertheless, the city remains an important regional fashion capital. According to Global Language Monitor, {{As of|2017|lc=y}} the city is the 20th leading fashion capital in the world, ranking second in Latin America after Rio de Janeiro.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.languagemonitor.com/fashion-capitals/new-york-bests-paris-for-2017-top-global-fashion-capital-title/|title=New York Bests Paris for 2017 Top Global Fashion Capital Title|date=September 2017|access-date=26 April 2018|publisher=Global Language Monitor|location=Austin, Texas|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426145040/https://www.languagemonitor.com/fashion-capitals/new-york-bests-paris-for-2017-top-global-fashion-capital-title/|archive-date=26 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2005, Buenos Aires was appointed as the first [[Organization:UNESCO|UNESCO]] City of Design,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID%3D28228%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717225831/http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28228&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 July 2012 |title=Buenos Aires, Argentina appointed UNESCO City of Design |publisher=Portal.unesco.org |access-date=2 May 2012 }}</ref> and received this title once again in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001592/159264e.pdf |title=Buenos Aires: UNESCO City of Design |access-date=2 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607214850/http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001592/159264e.pdf |archive-date=7 June 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 2015, the Buenos Aires International Fashion Film Festival Buenos Aires (BAIFFF) takes place, sponsored by the city and [[Company:Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes-Benz]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/noticias/llega-baifff-el-primer-festival-de-fashion-films-de-argentina|title=Llega BAIFFF, el Primer Festival de Fashion Films de la Argentina|date=7 April 2015|publisher=Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires|access-date=1 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917153145/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/noticias/llega-baifff-el-primer-festival-de-fashion-films-de-argentina|archive-date=17 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The government of the city also organizes La Ciudad de Moda ("The City of Fashion"), an annual event that serves as a platform for emerging creators and attempts to boost the sector by providing management tools.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/la-ciudad-de-moda|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216175934/http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/la-ciudad-de-moda|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 February 2016|title=La Ciudad de MODA|date=March 2016|publisher=Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires|access-date=1 September 2016}}</ref>

The fashionable neighborhood of Palermo, particularly the area known as Soho, is where the latest fashion and design trends are presented.<ref name="barriosfashion"/> The "''sub-barrio''" of Palermo Viejo is also a popular port of call for fashion in the city.<ref name="hedonist"/> An increasing number of young, independent designers are also setting up their own shops in Bohemian San Telmo, known for its wide variety of markets and antique shops.<ref name="barriosfashion"/> Recoleta, on the other hand, is the epicenter of branches of exclusive and upscale fashion houses.<ref name="barriosfashion">{{cite web|url=http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/barrios-distritos-y-eventos|title=Barrios, distritos y eventos|date=13 June 2014 |publisher=Autonomous City of Buenos Aires|access-date=18 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017174501/http://www.turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/article/barrios-distritos-y-eventos|archive-date=17 October 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> In particular, Avenida Alvear is home to the most exclusive representatives of haute couture in the city.<ref name="hedonist">{{cite book|last=Froggatt|first=Charles|date=21 June 2007|title=A Hedonist's Guide to Buenos Aires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tLtMAJoKexEC&pg=PA175|publisher=HG2|page=175|isbn=978-1905428083|access-date=4 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208055820/https://books.google.com/books?id=tLtMAJoKexEC&pg=PA175|archive-date=8 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Architecture===

Buenos Aires architecture is characterized by its eclectic nature, with elements resembling [[Place:Paris|Paris]] and [[Place:Madrid|Madrid]]. There is a mix, due to immigration, of Colonial, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Neo-Gothic, and French Bourbon styles.<ref>[http://www.bue.gov.ar/?ncMenu=49 Portal Oficial de Turismo de Buenos Aires: Arquitectura] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927152524/http://www.bue.gov.ar/?ncMenu=49 |date=27 September 2011 }} (Spanish)</ref> Italian and French influences increased after the declaration of independence at the beginning of the 19th century, although the academic style persisted until the first decades of the 20th century. Attempts at renovation took place during the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, when European influences penetrated into the country, reflected by several buildings of Buenos Aires such as the Iglesia Santa Felicitas by Ernesto Bunge; the Palace of Justice, the National Congress, all of them by Vittorio Meano, and the Teatro Colón, by Francesco Tamburini and Vittorio Meano. The simplicity of the ''Rioplatense'' [[History:Baroque|baroque style]] can be clearly seen in Buenos Aires through the works of Italian architects such as André Blanqui and Antonio Masella, in the churches of San Ignacio, Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the Cathedral and the Cabildo.
[[File:Cabildo de Buenos Aires, calle Bolivar.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|View of Bolívar Street facing the Cabildo and Diagonal Norte, on Buenos Aires' historical center. The city's characteristic convergence of diverse architectural styles can be seen, including Spanish Colonial, Beaux-Arts and modernist architecture.]]

In 1912, the Basilica del Santisimo Sacramento was opened to the public; its construction was funded by the generous donation of Argentine philanthropist Mercedes Castellanos de Anchorena, a member of Argentina's most prominent family. The church is an excellent example of French neo-classicism. With extremely high-grade decorations in its interior, the magnificent Mutin-Cavaillé coll organ (the biggest ever installed in an Argentine church with more than four thousand tubes and four manuals) presided the nave. The altar is full of marble and was the biggest ever built in South America at that time.<ref>[http://www.clarin.com/sociedad/Celebran-anos-cripta-Santisimo-Sacramento_0_504549647.html Clarín.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401075203/http://www.clarin.com/sociedad/Celebran-anos-cripta-Santisimo-Sacramento_0_504549647.html |date=1 April 2012 }} "Celebran hoy los 100 años de la cripta del Santísimo Sacramento" 23 June 2011</ref>

In 1919, the construction of Palacio Barolo began. This was South America's tallest building at the time and was the first Argentine skyscraper built with concrete (1919–1923).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbarolo.com.ar |title=Palacio Barolo |publisher=Pbarolo.com.ar |access-date=15 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628050200/http://www.pbarolo.com.ar/ |archive-date=28 June 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> The building was equipped with 9 elevators, plus a {{convert|20|m|ft|round=5|adj=mid|-high|sp=us|spell=in}} lobby hall with paintings in the ceiling and Latin phrases embossed in golden bronze letters. A 300,000-candela beacon was installed at the top (110 m), making the building visible even from Uruguay. In 2009, the Barolo Palace went under an exhaustive restoration, and the beacon was made operational again.

In 1936, the {{convert|120|m|ft|round=5|adj=mid|-tall|sp=us}} Kavanagh Building was inaugurated. The building, with its 12 elevators (provided by Otis) and the world's first central air conditioning system (provided by the North American company [[Company:Carrier Global|Carrier]]), is still an architectural landmark in Buenos Aires.<ref>[http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/capital_federal/Vivir-Kavanagh-lujo-vecinos-perfil_0_523147815.html Clarín.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222031107/http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/capital_federal/Vivir-Kavanagh-lujo-vecinos-perfil_0_523147815.html |date=22 February 2012 }} "Vivir en el Kavanagh, un lujo para vecinos de perfil bajo" 24 July 2011</ref>

The architecture of the second half of the 19th century continued to reproduce French [[History:Neoclassical architecture|neoclassic]] models, such as the headquarters of the Banco de la Nación Argentina built by Alejandro Bustillo, and the Museo Hispanoamericano de Buenos Aires of Martín Noel. However, since the 1930s, the influence of Le Corbusier and European [[Philosophy:Rationalism|rationalism]] consolidated in a group of young architects from the University of Tucumán, among whom Amancio Williams stands out. The construction of skyscrapers proliferated in Buenos Aires until the 1950s. Newer modern high-technology buildings by Argentine architects in the last years of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st include the Le Parc Tower by Mario Álvarez, the Torre Fortabat by Sánchez Elía, and the Repsol-YPF Tower by César Pelli.

===Theaters===
[[File:Panorámica interior del Teatro Colón (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Teatro Colón.]]

Buenos Aires has over 280 [[Engineering:Theater (structure)|theaters]], more than any other city in the world.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1074260-la-ciudad-con-mas-teatros-del-mundo|title=La ciudad con más teatros del mundo|date=26 November 2008|newspaper=La Nación|access-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302053849/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/1074260-la-ciudad-con-mas-teatros-del-mundo|archive-date=2 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Because of this, Buenos Aires is declared the "World's Capital of Theater".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.argentina.travel/en/xp/buenos-aires-latin-america-s-theatre-capital/4216|title=ABCD|website=Argentina.travel|access-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924070738/https://www.argentina.travel/en/xp/buenos-aires-latin-america-s-theatre-capital/4216#.WPF0i4g1_IU|archive-date=24 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> They show everything from musicals to ballet, comedy to circuses.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/en/article/theatre-film|title=A city of theatre, film, literature and music|website=Official English Website for the City of Buenos Aires|date=7 October 2014|access-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420051459/https://turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/en/article/theatre-film|archive-date=20 April 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Some of them are:

*Teatro Colón is ranked the third best opera house in the world by National Geographic,<ref>[http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/top-10/opera-houses/ "Top 10: Opera Houses"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001093729/http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/top-10/opera-houses |date=1 October 2016 }} on travel.nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved 14 April 2014</ref> and is acoustically considered to be among the world's five best concert venues. It is bounded by the wide 9 de Julio Avenue (technically Cerrito Street), Arturo Toscanini Street, Tucumán Street, as well as Libertad Street at its main entrance.<ref>[http://www.teatrocolon.org.ar/English/history.htm History of the Teatro Colón (Colón Theater; in English)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517070546/http://www.teatrocolon.org.ar/English/history.htm |date=17 May 2008 }}</ref> It is in the heart of the city on a site once occupied by Ferrocarril Oeste's ''Plaza Parque'' station.
*Cervantes Theater (Teatro Nacional Cervantes), located on Córdoba Avenue and two blocks north of Buenos Aires' renowned opera house, the Colón Theater, the Cervantes houses three performance halls, of which the María Guerrero Salon serves as its main hall. Its {{convert|456|m2|ft2|abbr=on}} stage features a {{convert|12|m|ft|abbr=on}} rotating circular platform and can be extended by a further {{convert|2.7|m|ft|abbr=on}}. The Guerrero Salon can seat 860 spectators, including 512 in the galleries. A secondary hall, the Orestes Caviglia Salon, can seat 150 and is mostly reserved for chamber music concerts. The Luisa Vehíl Salon is a multipurpose room known for its extensive [[Chemistry:Gold leaf|gold leaf]] decor.
*Teatro Gran Rex opened on 8 July 1937 as the largest cinema in [[Earth:South America|South America]] of its time; it is an Art Deco-style theater.
*Teatro Avenida (Avenida Theater) was inaugurated on Buenos Aires' central Avenida de Mayo in 1908 with a production of Spanish dramatist Lope de Vega's ''Justice Without Revenge''. The production was directed by María Guerrero, a Spanish Argentine theater director who popularized classical drama in Argentina during the late 19th century and would establish the important Cervantes Theater (Teatro Nacional Cervantes) in 1921.

===Sports===
[[File:La Bombonera.jpg|thumb|left|''La Bombonera'' during a night game of Copa Libertadores between Boca Juniors v. Colo Colo.]]

Buenos Aires has been a candidate city for the Summer Olympic Games on three occasions: for the 1956 Games, which were lost by a single vote to Melbourne; for the 1968 Summer Olympics, held in [[Place:Mexico City|Mexico City]]; and in 2004, when the games were awarded to [[Place:Athens|Athens]]. However, Buenos Aires hosted the first Pan American Games (1951)<ref name="Time Out"/> and was also host city to several World Championship events: the 1950 and 1990 Basketball World Championships, the 1982 and 2002 Men's Volleyball World Championships and, most remembered, the 1978 FIFA World Cup, won by Argentina on 25 June 1978, when it defeated the Netherlands at the Estadio Monumental 3–1. In September 2013, the city hosted the 125th IOC Session, Tokyo was elected the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics and Thomas Bach was new IOC President. Buenos Aires bid to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|title=Buenos Aires, Argentina to bid for 2018 Youth Olympic Games |url=http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/youth_olympic_bids/1216135867.html |access-date=30 August 2011 |publisher=Games Bids Inc. |date=30 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106175649/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/youth_olympic_bids/1216135867.html |archive-date=6 January 2012 }}</ref> On 4 July 2013, the IOC elected Buenos Aires as the host city.<ref name=autogenerated1/> Buenos Aires hosted the 2006 South American Games too.

Football is a popular pastime among many of the city's citizens, as Buenos Aires, featuring no fewer than 24 professional teams, has the highest concentration of teams of any city in the world.<ref name="observer">[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1182710,00.html 50 sporting things you must do before you die] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112123418/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1182710,00.html |date=12 January 2012 }}, ''The Observer''Royal Madrid, 4 April 2004</ref> with many of its teams playing in the major league. The best-known rivalry is the one between Boca Juniors and River Plate, the match is better known as Superclásico. Watching a match between these two teams was deemed one of the "50 sporting things you must do before you die" by ''The Observer''.<ref name="observer"/> Other major clubs include San Lorenzo de Almagro, Club Atlético Huracán, Vélez Sarsfield, Chacarita Juniors, Club Ferro Carril Oeste, Nueva Chicago and Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors. Diego Maradona, born in Lanús Partido, a county south of Buenos Aires, is widely hailed as one of the sport's greatest players of all time. Maradona started his career with Argentinos Juniors and went on to play for Boca Juniors, the national football team and others (most notably FC Barcelona in Spain and SSC Napoli in Italy).<ref>[http://www.diegomaradona.com/ingles/ihistoria.html Complete list here on the left] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100302213753/http://www.diegomaradona.com/ingles/ihistoria.html |date=2 March 2010 }}</ref>
[[File:La Catedral del Polo.jpg|thumb|Campo Argentino de Polo, home of the Argentine Open Polo Championship, the most important global event of this discipline]]
[[File:Court central Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club.jpg|thumb|Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club]]

In 1912, the practice of basketball in Argentina was started by the ''Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes (YMCA)'' of Buenos Aires,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120311233226/http://www.ymca.org.ar/historia-en-argentina/ Historia en la Argentina] on Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes en la Argentina website (Archive – 11 March 2012)</ref> when Canadian professor Paul Phillip was in charge of teaching basketball at the YMCA of Paseo Colón Avenue. The first basketball clubs in Argentina, Hindú and Independiente, were located at the YMCAs of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. By 1912 the first basketball games were held by YMCA headquarters in Buenos Aires. Nowadays, the Argentine Basketball Confederation is headquartered in Buenos Aires.

Argentina has been the home of world champions in professional boxing. Carlos Monzon was a hall of fame World Middleweight champion, and the former lineal Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez hails from Argentina. Omar Narvaez, Lucas Matthysse, Carolina Duer, and Marcos Maidana are five modern-day world champions as well.

Argentines' love for horses can be experienced in several ways: horse racing at the ''Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo'' racetrack, polo in the ''Campo Argentino de Polo'' (located just across Libertador Avenue from the ''Hipódromo''), and pato, a kind of basketball played on horseback that was declared the national game in 1953. Polo was brought to the country in the second half of the 19th century by English immigrants.

The first rugby union match in Argentina was played in 1873 in the Buenos Aires Cricket Club Ground, located in the neighborhood of Palermo, where the Galileo Galilei planetarium is located today. Rugby enjoys widespread popularity in Buenos Aires, most especially in the north of the city, which boasts more than eighty rugby clubs. The city is home to the Argentine Super Rugby franchise, the Jaguares. The Argentina national rugby union team competes in Buenos Aires in international matches such as the Rugby Championship.

Buenos Aires native Guillermo Vilas (who was raised in Mar del Plata) and Gabriela Sabatini were great tennis players of the 1970s and 1980s<ref name="Time Out"/> and popularized tennis Nationwide in Argentina. Vilas won the ATP Buenos Aires numerous times in the 1970s. Other popular sports in Buenos Aires are golf, basketball, rugby and field hockey.

Juan Manuel Fangio won five Formula One World Driver's Championships, and was only outstripped by Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton, with seven Championships. The Buenos Aires Oscar Gálvez car-racing track hosted 20 Formula One events as the Argentine Grand Prix, between 1953 and 1998; it was discontinued on financial grounds. The track features various local categories on most weekends. The 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015 Dakar Rally started and ended in the city.

{{wide image|River Monumental Panoramic.jpg|1000px|align-cap=center|''El Monumental'', home of River Plate, hosted the final game of the FIFA World Cup Championship in 1978 }}

==International relations==

===Twin towns and sister cities===
Buenos Aires is twinned with the following cities:<ref>{{cite web |url = http://en.db-city.com/Argentina--Buenos-Aires--Buenos-Aires |title = Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina – City, Town and Village of the world |website=db-city.com |access-date=10 August 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160406160911/http://en.db-city.com/Argentina--Buenos-Aires--Buenos-Aires |archive-date=6 April 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url = http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title= Convenios Internacionales – Hermanamientos, Convenios de Cooperación y Actas de Intención |publisher=Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires |language=es |access-date=22 September 2018}}</ref>

{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
*{{flagdeco|GRE}} [[Place:Athens|Athens]], Greece <small>''(since 1992)''</small><ref name="Listado de ciudades hermanas"/>
*{{flagdeco|CHN}} [[Place:Beijing|Beijing]], China <small>''(since 1993)''<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Sister_Cities/Sister_City/ |title=Sister Cities |publisher=Beijing Municipal People's Government |access-date=23 June 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130722201007/http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Sister_Cities/Sister_City/ |archive-date=22 July 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref></small>
*{{flagdeco|GER}} [[Place:Berlin|Berlin]], Germany <small>''(since 19 May 1994)''<ref name="Berlin twinnings">{{cite web |url = http://www.berlin.de/rbmskzl/staedteverbindungen/staedtepartnerschaft_ueberblick.en.html |title = Berlin – City Partnerships |access-date=17 September 2013 |website = Der Regierende Bürgermeister von Berlin |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130521054019/http://www.berlin.de/rbmskzl/staedteverbindungen/staedtepartnerschaft_ueberblick.en.html |archive-date=21 May 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.berlin.de/rbmskzl/staedteverbindungen/index.en.html |title=Berlin's international city relations |publisher=Berlin Mayor's Office |access-date=1 July 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080822100321/http://www.berlin.de/rbmskzl/staedteverbindungen/index.en.html |archive-date=22 August 2008 }}</ref></small>
*{{flagdeco|ESP}} Bilbao, Spain <small>''(since 1992)''</small><ref name="Bilbao">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Bilbao |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|BRA}} [[Engineering:Brasília|Brasília]], Brazil <small>''(since 1986)''</small><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.internacional.df.gov.br/noticias/item/2055-bras%C3%ADlia-global-partners.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228224414/http://www.internacional.df.gov.br/noticias/item/2055-bras%C3%ADlia-global-partners.html |archive-date=28 February 2014 |title=Brasília Global Partners |publisher=ASSESSORIA INTERNACIONAL DO GOVERNO DO DISTRITO FEDERAL |language=pt |access-date=1 April 2016}}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|EGY}} [[Place:Cairo|Cairo]], Egypt <small>''(since 1992)''</small><ref name="Listado de ciudades hermanas">{{cite web|url=http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/internacionales/hermanamientos.pdf |title=Listado de ciudades hermanas |access-date=26 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716150342/http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/internacionales/hermanamientos.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2011 }}</ref><ref name="Cairo">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de El Cairo |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ESP}} Cádiz, Spain <small>''(since 1975)''</small><ref name="Cadiz">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Cadiz |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ITA}} Calabria, Italy (region) <small>''(since 1987)''</small><ref name="Calabria">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Región de Calabria |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ESP}} Guadix, Spain <small>''(since 1987)''</small><ref name="Guadix">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Guadix |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|UKR}} [[Place:Kyiv|Kyiv]], Ukraine <small>''(since 1993)''</small><ref name="Kiev">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Kyiv |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|USA}} Miami, Florida, United States <small>''(since 1978)''</small><ref name="Miami">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Miami |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|RUS}} [[Place:Moscow|Moscow]], Russia <small>''(since 1990)''</small><ref name="Moscow">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Moscú |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ITA}} Naples, Italy <small>''(since 1990)''</small><ref name="Listado de ciudades hermanas"/>
*{{flagdeco|JPN}} {{wipe|Osaka}}, Japan <small>''(since 1990)''</small><ref name="Osaka">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Osaka |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ESP}} Oviedo, Spain <small>''(since 1983)''</small><ref name="Oviedo">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Oviedo |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|CZE}} [[Place:Prague|Prague]], Czech Republic <small>''(since 1992)''</small><ref name="Prague">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Praga |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|NED}} Rotterdam, Netherlands <small>''(since 1990)''</small><ref name="Rotterdam">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Rotterdam |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|BRA}} São Paulo, Brazil <small>''(since 2007)''</small><ref name="São Paulo twinnings">{{cite web |url=http://www3.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/cadlem/secretarias/negocios_juridicos/cadlem/integra.asp?alt=11072007L%20144710000 |title = Pesquisa de Legislação Municipal – No 14471 |access-date=23 August 2013 |publisher=Prefeitura da Cidade de São Paulo [Municipality of the City of São Paulo] |language=pt |trans-title=Research Municipal Legislation – No 14471 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018123138/http://www3.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/cadlem/secretarias/negocios_juridicos/cadlem/integra.asp?alt=11072007L%20144710000 |archive-date = 18 October 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Lei_Municipal_de_S%C3%A3o_Paulo_14471_de_2007 Lei Municipal de São Paulo 14471 de 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928023927/http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Lei_Municipal_de_S%C3%A3o_Paulo_14471_de_2007 |date=28 September 2013 }} WikiSource {{in lang|pt}}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|KOR}} [[Place:Seoul|Seoul]], South Korea <small>''(since 1992)''</small><ref name="Seoul">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Seúl |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ESP}} Seville, Spain <small>''(since 1974)''</small><ref>''[http://www.femp.es/index.php/femp/content/download/7117/65153/file/070202_con_latinoamérica.pdf Hermanamientos con Latinoamérica] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313081200/http://femp.es/index.php/femp/content/download/7117/65153/file/070202_con_latinoam%C3%A9rica.pdf |date=13 March 2016 }}'' (102,91 kB). [29-9-2008]</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ISR}} [[Place:Tel Aviv|Tel Aviv]], Israel <small>''(since 1976)''</small><ref name="Listado de ciudades hermanas"/>
*{{flagdeco|FRA}} Toulouse, France <small>''(since 1990)''</small><ref name="Toulouse">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Toulouse |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ESP}} Vigo, Spain <small>''(since 1992)''</small><ref name="Vigo">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Vigo |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|POL}} [[Place:Warsaw|Warsaw]], Poland <small>''(since 1992)''</small><ref name="Warsaw">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Hermanamiento de Varsovia |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ARM}} [[Place:Yerevan|Yerevan]], Armenia <small>''(since 2000)''</small><ref name="Yerevan twinnings 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.yerevan.am/3-194-194.html |title=Yerevan – Twin Towns & Sister Cities |access-date=4 November 2013 |work=Yerevan Municipality Official Website |publisher= 2005—2013 www.yerevan.am |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105095529/http://www.yerevan.am/3-194-194.html |archive-date=5 November 2013 }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|CRO}} [[Place:Zagreb|Zagreb]], Croatia <small>''(since 1998)''<ref name="Zagreb Twinning">{{cite web |url=http://www1.zagreb.hr/mms/en/index.html |title=Intercity and International Cooperation of the City of Zagreb |publisher=2006–2009 City of Zagreb |access-date=23 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814073522/http://www1.zagreb.hr/mms/en/index.html |archive-date=14 August 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref></small>
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===Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities===

Buenos Aires is part of the [[Organization:Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities|Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.munimadrid.es/UnidadWeb/Contenidos/EspecialInformativo/RelacInternac/RRII/HermanamientosyAcuerdos/Files/hermanamiento_UCCI.pdf |title=Declaración de Hermanamiento múltiple y solidario de todas las Capitales de Iberoamérica (12–10–82) |date=12 October 1982 |access-date=12 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510114810/http://www.munimadrid.es/UnidadWeb/Contenidos/EspecialInformativo/RelacInternac/RRII/HermanamientosyAcuerdos/Files/hermanamiento_UCCI.pdf |archive-date=10 May 2013 }}</ref> from 12 October 1982 establishing brotherly relations with the following cities:

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*{{flagdeco|AND}} [[Place:Andorra la Vella|Andorra la Vella]], Andorra
*{{flagdeco|PAR}} [[Place:Asunción|Asunción]], Paraguay
*{{flagdeco|COL}} [[Place:Bogotá|Bogotá]], Colombia
*{{flagdeco|VEN}} [[Place:Caracas|Caracas]], Venezuela
*{{flagdeco|GUA}} [[Place:Guatemala City|Guatemala City]], Guatemala
*{{flagdeco|CUB}} [[Place:Havana|Havana]], Cuba
*{{flagdeco|BOL}} [[Place:La Paz|La Paz]], Bolivia
*{{flagdeco|PER}} [[Place:Lima|Lima]], Peru
*{{flagdeco|POR}} [[Place:Lisbon|Lisbon]], Portugal
*{{flagdeco|ESP}} [[Place:Madrid|Madrid]], Spain
*{{flagdeco|Nicaragua}} [[Place:Managua|Managua]], Nicaragua
*{{flagdeco|MEX}} [[Place:Mexico City|Mexico City]], Mexico
* {{flagdeco|URU}} [[Place:Montevideo|Montevideo]], Uruguay
*{{flagdeco|PAN}} [[Place:Panama City|Panama City]], Panama
*{{flagdeco|ECU}} [[Place:Quito|Quito]], Ecuador
*{{flagdeco|BRA}} Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
*{{flagdeco|CRC}} San José, Costa Rica
* {{flagdeco|Puerto Rico}} San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States 
* {{flagdeco|El Salvador}} [[Place:San Salvador|San Salvador]], El Salvador
*{{flagdeco|CHI}} [[Place:Santiago|Santiago]], Chile
* {{flagdeco|DOM}} [[Place:Santo Domingo|Santo Domingo]], Dominican Republic
*{{flagdeco|HON}} [[Place:Tegucigalpa|Tegucigalpa]], Honduras
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===Partner cities===
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* {{flagdeco|Lebanon}} [[Place:Beirut|Beirut]], Lebanon<ref name="Santiago de Compostela">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Convenio de Cooperación |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|HUN}} [[Place:Budapest|Budapest]], Hungary<ref name="Budapest">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Convenio Marco de Cooperación entre la Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Budapest y el Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |language=es |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|RSA}} [[Place:Cape Town|Cape Town]], South Africa<ref name="Cape Town">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Memorándum de Entendimiento en Cooperación |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |language=es |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|VIE}} [[Place:Hanoi|Hanoi]], Vietnam<ref name="Hanoi">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Acuerdo de Amistad |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ISR}} [[Place:Jerusalem|Jerusalem]], Israel<ref name="Jerusalem">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Protocolo de Entendimiento, Amistad y Cooperación entre la ciudad de Jerusalem y la ciudad de Buenos Aires |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |language=es |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|POR}} [[Place:Lisbon|Lisbon]], Portugal<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cm-lisboa.pt/municipio/relacoes-internacionais|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031202617/http://www.cm-lisboa.pt/municipio/relacoes-internacionais|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 October 2013|title=Sítio da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa: Relações Internacionais|date=31 October 2013}}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|SUI}} Lugano, Switzerland<ref name="Lugano">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Convenio Marco de Cooperación entre la Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Lugano y el Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |language=es |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|CAN}} [[Place:Ottawa|Ottawa]], Canada<ref name="Ottawa">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=APRUEBASE CONVENIO MARCO DE COOPERACION Nº 11/98 CELEBRADO ENTRE EL G.C.B.A. Y LA CIUDAD DE OTTAWA (CANADA) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |language=es |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|FRA}} [[Place:Paris|Paris]], France<ref name="Paris1">{{cite web|url=http://www.paris.fr/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=6587&document_type_id=5&document_id=16468&portlet_id=14974 |work=Mairie de Paris |title=Les pactes d'amitié et de coopération |access-date=14 October 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011162140/http://paris.fr/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=6587&document_type_id=5&document_id=16468&portlet_id=14974 |archive-date=11 October 2007 }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ITA}} [[Place:Rome|Rome]], Italy<ref name="Rome">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Convenio de Amistad y Colaboración |access-date=21 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|RUS}} Saint Petersburg, Russia<ref name="Saint Petersburg">{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |title=Convenio Marco de Cooperación |access-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923160611/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/internacionalesycooperacion/relacionesbilaterales/convenios |archive-date=23 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|ESP}} Santiago de Compostela, Spain<ref name="Santiago de Compostela"/>
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==See also==
*[[Organization:C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group|C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group]]
*Cicerones de Buenos Aires
*Largest cities in the Americas
*List of mayors and chiefs of government of Buenos Aires
*List of twin towns and sister cities of Buenos Aires
*OPENCities
*[[Place:Outline of Argentina|Outline of Argentina]]

== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
=== Citations ===
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=== Sources ===
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* {{in lang|es}} Patricia Moglia, Fabián Sislián and Mónica Alabart, ''Pensar la historia Argentina desde una historia de América Latina'', Buenos Aires:Plus Ultra
* {{cite book |last1=Blouet |first1=Brian |last2=Blouet |first2=Olwyn |title=Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic and Regional Survey |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7MJvhxmr4kC&pg=PA391 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2010 |pages=385–415 |chapter=Chapter 13: Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay |isbn=978-0-470-38773-3 |ref={{sfnRef|Blouet|2010}} }}
* {{cite book |last1=Kreimer |first1=Alcira |last2=Arnold |first2=Margaret |title=Managing Disaster Risk in Emerging Economies |series=Disaster Risk Management Series No. 2 |url=http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2000/08/19/000094946_00080705302023/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf |location=Washington D.C. |publisher=World Bank |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-8213-4726-3 |ref={{sfnRef|Kreimer|2000}} |access-date=3 June 2017 |archive-date=24 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140824001646/http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2000/08/19/000094946_00080705302023/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf |url-status=live }}
*{{cite book |last=Lewis Nouwen |first=Mollie |date=15 September 2013 |title=Oy, My Buenos Aires: Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWqBomCbmO4C |publisher=UNM Press |isbn=978-0826353504 |access-date=12 December 2016 |archive-date=10 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810204005/https://books.google.com/books?id=yWqBomCbmO4C |url-status=live }}
* {{cite book |last=Rojas-Mix |first=Miguel |year=1991 |title=Los cien nombres de América: eso que descubrió Colón |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aLICLXqH1fUC&pg=PA57 |language=es |publisher=Lumen |page=57 |isbn=978-8426412096 |access-date=12 December 2016 |archive-date=9 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409181410/https://books.google.com/books?id=aLICLXqH1fUC&pg=PA57 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite book |last=Wilson |first=Jason |year=2007 |title=Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary History |url=https://archive.org/details/buenosairescultu0000wils |url-access=registration |publisher=Signal Books |isbn=978-1566563475 |access-date=2 March 2020 }}
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=== Further reading ===
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* Adelman, Jeremy. ''Republic of capital: Buenos Aires and the legal transformation of the Atlantic world'' (Stanford University Press, 1999)
* Baily, Samuel L. "The Adjustment of Italian Immigrants in Buenos Aires and New York, 1870–1914." ''American Historical Review'' (1983): 281–305. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1865403 in JSTOR]
* Bao, Sandra, and Bridget Gleeson. ''Lonely Planet Buenos Aires'' (Travel Guide) (2011) 
* Benson, Andrew. ''The Rough Guide to Buenos Aires'' (2011) 
* ''Buenos Aires Travel Guide 2014: Essential Tourist Information, Maps & Photos'' (2014) 
* Emerson, Charles. ''1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War'' (2013) compares Buenos Aires to 20 major world cities; pp 252–66.
* Keeling, David J. ''Buenos Aires: Global dreams, local crises'' (Wiley, 1996)
* Moya, Jose C. ''Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930'' (University of California Press, 1998)
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110308173123/http://opencities.britishcouncil.org/web/index.php?monitor_en OPENCities Monitor participant] (archived 8 March 2011)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140409210017/http://www.indec.mecon.ar/nuevaweb/cuadros/2/estimaciones-serie34.pdf Population estimates] (archived 9 April 2014)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060511074651/http://wwwa.britannica.com/ebi/article-9273392 ''Encyclopædia Britannica''] (archived 11 May 2006)
*[http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571750/Buenos_Aires_(city).html Microsoft Encarta] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20040228000720/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571750/Buenos_Aires_(city).html archived] 31 October 2009)
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