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  Buenos Aires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buenos Aires is located on the southern shore of the River Plate, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent, opposite Montevideo, Uruguay.
Buenos Aires was the capital of the Viceroyalty of the River Plate.
Since 1880, Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and the seat of the federal government; the city of La Plata was established as provincial capital.
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 BUENOS AIRES - LoveToKnow Article on BUENOS AIRES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The principal cities and towns of the province (apart from Buenos Aires and its suburbs of Belgrano and Flores) are its capital La Plata; Bahia Blanca, San Nicolas, a river port on the Paranfi 150 m.
Buenos Aires has become the principal manufacturing centre of the republic, and its industrial establishments are numbered by thousands and their capital by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Buenos Aires remained a dependency of Asuncin until 1620, when the Spanish settlements of the La Plata region were divided into three provinces, Paraguay, Tucuman and Buenos Aires, and Garays city became the capital of the latter and also the seat of a new bishopric.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BUENOS_AIRES.htm   (4610 words)

  
 BUENOS AIRES CITY
Buenos Aires is the capital city of Argentina.
Tango Orchestra of Buenos Aires (conductors: Garello and García).
Buenos Aires is a city of parks - framed by museums, restaurants and grandiose monuments - that are ideal for strolling or picnicking.
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 MSN Encarta - Buenos Aires (city)
Buenos Aires (city), capital and largest city of Argentina, located on the western bank of the Río de la Plata, inland from the Atlantic Ocean.
Buenos Aires is situated on the Río de la Plata, which is an immense estuary formed by the confluence of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers.
Despite its immense population, Buenos Aires is surprisingly homogenous in its ethnic and racial composition.
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 Buenos Aires. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Buenos Aires, the most heavily industrialized city of Argentina, is a major food-processing center, with huge meatpacking and refrigeration plants and flour mills.
Buenos Aires remained subordinate to the Spanish viceroy in Peru until 1776, when it became the capital of a newly created viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, including much of present-day Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
In 1853 the city and province of Buenos Aires refused to participate in a constituent congress and seceded from Argentina.
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 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Buenos Aires (city)
The core of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area is the City of Buenos Aires, a federal district and the nation’s capital.
The City of Buenos Aires has an area of 200 sq km (77 sq mi) and is densely populated, with 2.8 million people residing within its boundaries.
As the city expanded outward in a semicircle, the plaza continued to serve as the principal urban focus.
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 ipedia.com: Buenos Aires Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Buenos Aires (BWAY-nos EYE-res, meaning "Good Air(s)" in Spanish), with a population of almost 3 million people, is the largest city in Argentina and one of the largest in South America.
Buenos Aires has one of the busiest ports in the world, and an enormous inland river system connecting it to the majority of Argentina as well as with Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay.
By the 1920s Buenos Aires was a favoured destination for immigrants from Europe, and extensive shanty towns developed in and around the city's industrial areas, leading to extensive social problems.
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 ADELSUR Luxury Apartments in Buenos Aires
This section of the city is essentially a financial and commercial district, with a large concentration of banks, offices, businesses, and hotels.
Buenos Aires Obelisk: It is, no doubt, the most characteristic architectonic piece of the city of Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires will find places of tourist interest such as the city hall known as the "Cabildo," the government house (Casa Rosada), the Plaza de Mayo, the cathedral, the "Manzana de las Luces", the Colón theater, the obelisk, and the national congress.
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 A2Z Languages - Buenos Aires, Argentina - City Overview
Buenos Aires is a busy, vibrant city and the central gateway for the produce and products that are transported to every city of Argentina.
Many green, shaded plazas throughout the city offer quiet refuge from the bustle of daily life, and in beautiful Palermo Park, which covers acres of land in the heart of the city, are a zoo, ponds for boating, a golf course, and several restaurants.
Buenos Aires is composed of many small places, intimate details, and tiny events and interactions, each with a slightly different shade, shape, and character.
www.a2zlanguages.com /Argentina/BuenosAires/ba_city.htm   (542 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Gay tourism growing in Buenos Aires' cosmopolitan city   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Buenos Aires is in the midst of a tourism boom.
Buenos Aires, a city of 3 million, is often called the "Paris of South America" for its cafe culture, French-style architecture and sophistication of its residents, most of whom descend from Spanish and Italian immigrants.
Buenos Aires is famed for its nightlife, with dozens of bars and discos open every night and portenos — as the multinational denizens of Buenos Aires are known — dancing until the sun comes up.
www.usatoday.com /travel/destinations/2004-03-23-gay-argentina_x.htm   (1092 words)

  
 Buenos Aires City Guide
Buenos Aires is the most European of all Latin American cities.
Buenos Aires is the third largest city in South America and comprises 47 barrios (neighbourhoods) in which nearly three million people live.
In 1776, Buenos Aires was pronounced the Capital of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata (River Plate region – a huge region that included what is now Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and parts of Chile and Brazil).
www.tiscali.co.uk /travel/eworldguides/overview/buenosaires_overview.html   (378 words)

  
 Buenos Aires Tourist Information - Argentina, South America Provided By Columbus Travel Guides
Buenos Aires only re-emerged from its economic woes in the 1990s when the currency was stabilised.
Buenos Aires has bounced back, however, and there are signs that the Argentine economy is on the mend.
Buenos Aires has a mild climate and is a year-round destination, although the city can get very hot and humid during the summer months (Dec-Feb).
www.cityguide.travel-guides.com /cities/bua/cityoverview.asp   (820 words)

  
 Argentina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buenos Aires has been the capital of Argentina since its unification, but there have been projects to move the administrative center elsewhere.
Many slums (villas miseria) sprouted in the outskirts of the largest cities, inhabited by empoverished low-class urban dwellers and migrants from smaller towns in the interior of the country.
In descending order by number of inhabitants, the major cities in Argentina are Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario, Mendoza, Santa Fe, Mar del Plata, La Plata, Tucumán, Salta, and Bahía Blanca.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Argentina   (2730 words)

  
 World Library and Information Congress: 70th IFLA General Conference and Council - Travel and local information
The Rio de la Plata and the Riachuelo are the natural boundaries of Buenos Aires city to the East and South while the rest of the metropolitan perimeter is surrounded by Avenida General Paz, which goes around the Northern and Eastern borders.
Buenos Aires is connected nationally and internationally through a comprehensive, wide-ranging transport network, an important harbour where cruise ships and ferry boats arrive, railway lines, highways, bus routes converge about one kilometre away from the city centre.
The main gateway to this fascinating country is the city of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, covering an area of 202 Km2 and housing eleven million inhabitants (incorporating the suburbs known as Greater Buenos Aires) whereby it ranks as one of the ten most highly populated urban centres in the world.
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 history, Buenos Aires city (state capital), Pictures
The conflict was largely resolved in 1880, when the city was separated from Buenos Aires Province and the Federal Capital district was established.
At the same time the city was declared the country's permanent capital (it had been made the provisional capital in 1862).
By 1910 Buenos Aires emerged as Latin America's leading economic and cultural center, with a population of 1.3 million, and was preeminent in Argentine politics and economics.
www.greatestcities.com /South_America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires_city_state_capital/history.html?redir=1   (330 words)

  
 Buenos Aires Travel Guide | Fodor's Online
Buenos Aires, the ninth-largest city in the world, is a sprawling metropolis rising from the Río de la Plata and stretching more than 200 square km (75 square mi) to the surrounding pampas, the fertile Argentine plains.
With more than one-third of the country's 39 million inhabitants living in or around Buenos Aires, the city is the political, economic, and cultural center of Argentina and the gateway to the rest of the country.
Buenos Aires locals refer to themselves as Porteños because many of them originally arrived by boat from Europe and settled in the port area.
www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=buenos_aires@38   (445 words)

  
 Buenos Aires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The city of Buenos Aires, one of the most important ones in Latin America, is a great cosmopolitan metropolis.
As the home to a third of Argentina´s population, Buenos Aires is rich in culture.
Buenos Aires is subdivided into 48 different districts or neighborhoods.
www.wowargentina.com.ar /english/buenos_aires.html   (230 words)

  
 Buenos Aires - Introduction
Portenos are intensely involved in the life and culture of their city, and they will gladly share the secrets of Buenos Aires if you lend an ear and relate your own stories in return.
Buenos Aires' physical structure is a mosaic as varied and diverse as its culture.
In the San Telmo district, the city's multinational heritage is embodied in a
www.geographia.com /argentina/buenosaires   (337 words)

  
 Student World Traveler's City Guides - Buenos Aires, Argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Buenos Ayres Hostel, Pasaje San Lorenzo, 320, is a new hostel in San Telmo, with dorms and some double rooms.
Buenos Aires buses are the only way to reach the outlying areas of the city (except for taxis).
In Buenos Aires, be careful of pickpockets and keep valuables and cameras safely tucked away at the bottom of your pack.
www.worldtravel.studenttraveler.com /studentguides/buenosaires.php   (1534 words)

  
 Buenos Aires (City)
Modern Buenos Aires is home to a third of Argentina’s population of 33 million, and although for many the days of glory have gone, the capital continues to act as a magnet for economic migrants from the country’s poorer provinces as well as from neighbouring Latin American countries.
The most renowned barrio is San Telmo in the south of the city, which was once inhabited by the city’s elite, but they fled to the higher grounds of Barrio Norte after a yellow fever epidemic in 1871, thus establishing a precedent for the geographical division of wealth which persists to this day.
It’s an epithet that could now be applied to the city as a whole: Buenos Aires is one of the world’s great 24-hour cities and one of the few places in the world where you’ll find yourself with standing-room only on a bus in the small hours of a weekday morning.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /south_america/argentina/about_destin/buenosaires_city.html   (528 words)

  
 Business Wire: Fitch Affirms Ratings for City of Buenos Aires. @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
City of Buenos Aires's ratings remain under pressure by risks that are more associated with the federal government's management of the national economy and public finances (e.g.
Finally, the ratings consider the city's ownership of the Bank of the City of Buenos Aires, one of the largest banking institutions in Argentina.
City's fiscal prudence is the key issue given Buenos Aires's rigid budgetary structure, where revenues derived from economically-sensitive tax sources contribute 86% to the budget, and operating expenditures account for 55.3% of current revenues as of September 2004.
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 NACLA Report on the Americas: Buenos Aires: a city tries to recognize itself.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Buenos Aires: a city tries to recognize itself.
The city has become massive and depersonalized and residents struggle to define their surroundings.
By leaving all of Buenos Aires' projects half-finished, the current crisis has begun consolidating fragments: pieces of the future like unfulfilled promises in the north of the city, pieces of the past like...
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 Beleaguered, beautiful Buenos Aires / City's perpetual identity crisis creates fascinating layers
Yet Buenos Aires' paradox is that, although it is assuredly attractive, it boasts little in the way of established attractions or a tourist trail.
In 1854, Buenos Aires was still a modest settlement of 90,000 criollos, or Spaniards born in the Americas.
Even the city's waterworks, officially known as the Palacio de las Aguas Corrientes (now stranded amid the traffic on Avenida Cordoba, but worth a visit), is an ornate confection, incorporating terra-cotta, slate and marble in a bizarre hybrid of architectural styles.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/20/TR56226.DTL   (2269 words)

  
 AR Tourism - Buenos Aires Tours and Excursions
Buenos Aires has many highlights and AR Tourism has put together some recommended tours that allow visitors to get the most out of their time in this vibrant metropolis.
There are numerous nightlife venues throughout Buenos Aires, with the Argentine Tango at the heart of the after hours scene.
The city practically dances to the sound of a tango ballad, and this sultry dance can be witnessed at many public gatherings around town.
www.artourism.com /argentina_buenosaires.htm   (777 words)

  
 Argentina - Capital y Gran Buenos Aires - Tourism
The city of Buenos Aires, one of the most important Latin American cities, is a great cosmopolitan and many-sided metropolis.
It is the capital of the Argentine Republic and the vital bond of the nation.
Financial, stock-exchange and economical seat of the country, Buenos Aires is the main port of the nation.
www.argentinaturistica.com /2basiresenia.htm   (232 words)

  
 S&P Lowers Buenos Aires (City) National Scale Rating to 'raBBB'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This effect was demonstrated by an unprecedented fall in the city's own-generated revenues in December 2001 of 46.4% compared to the same month of 2000.
This recent deterioration was partially compensated for by the city's fiscal performance in the first two months of 2001; therefore, the final reduction in the city's own-generated revenues in 2001 was 8.9%.
The main purposes of the law are to enable the city to issue bonds to pay for salaries and liabilities with suppliers, to renegotiate supplier contracts, and to rationalize city expenditures.
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 buenosaires.ca - Buenos Aires City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Self Of The City: Macedonio Fernandez, The Argentine Avant-Garde, And Modernity In Buenos Aires
Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - That book sitting on the table, the one by the window at the cafe on the corner.
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