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  Buenos Aires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buenos Aires ("Good Airs" in Spanish, originally meaning "Fair Winds") is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in Latin America.
Buenos Aires is located on the southern shore of the River Plate, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent, opposite Montevideo, Uruguay.
The population of Buenos Aires consists primarily of Argentines of Spanish and Italian descent.
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 MSN Encarta - Buenos Aires (city)
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.
The core of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area is the City of Buenos Aires, a federal district and the nation’s capital.
Despite its immense population, Buenos Aires is surprisingly homogenous in its ethnic and racial composition.
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 Encyclopedia: Gran Buenos Aires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Buenos Aires Avellaneda is a partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Florencio Varela is a partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Moreno is one of the 134 partidos (counties) of Buenos Aires Province in north-east Argentina.
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 Buenos Aires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Buenos Aires ("Good Air" in Spanish, originally meaning "Fair Winds") is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America.
Buenos Aires is located at the southern side of the River Plate, on the southeast coast of the South American continent.
Buenos Aires hosted the first Pan American Games which started on February 25, 1951, as well as the 1950 and 1990 basketball world championships and the 1978 football (soccer) World Cup (Argentina won the final on June 25, 1978, defeating the Netherlands by a score of 3-1).
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Buenos-Aires.htm   (2041 words)

  
 Gran Buenos Aires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gran Buenos Aires or Greater Buenos Aires is the metropolitan area next to the city of Buenos Aires and comprises the following 24 partidos (administrative subdivisions) of the Province of Buenos Aires.
Gran Buenos Aires had 8,684,437 inhabitans in 2001.
When the city of Buenos Aires itself is included, the total population of the area is around 11.5 million.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gran_Buenos_Aires   (266 words)

  
 BUENOS AIRES CITY
Gran Buenos Aires, situated on the coast of the De la Plata river, with more than 13 millions, is one of the biggest cities of South America.
The Buenos Aires Philharmonic performs each Thursday, for example, with invited soloists like the American violinist Joshua Bell (July 10 2003 at 8:30 p.m.), and the pianist Marta Argerich will be making a rare hometown appearance on Sept. 4 2003 at a festival in her honor.
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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 WorldTravelGate.net® - Culture of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Buenos Aires, city, federal district, and capital of Argentina, situated on the western shore of the Rio de la Plata, 240 km (150 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean.
Buenos Aires lies on the southeastern corner of the plain stretching between the Rio Reconquista to the west and the Rio Riachuelo (Matanza) to the southeast.
Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires is composed of the federal district and 22 adjacent municipalities.
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 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.
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 Buenos Aires - Wicipedia
Buenos Aires (enw llawn yn Sbaeneg Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires) yw prifddinas Ariannin.
Gyda'r ardal o'i chwmpas, Gran Buenos Aires, hi yw'r ail ddinas o ran maint yn Ne America.
Saif Buenos Aires ar lan y Río de la Plata, 34º 36' i'r de a 58º 26' i'r gorllewin.
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 argentina autonomist project / proyecto argentina autonomista
Buenos Aires can be divided into two sections: Buenos Aires City (the Capital Federal), a huge city composed of 48 neighborhoods, or barrios, which have their own characteristics that distinguish them from each other, which includes the compact downtown area, and Gran Buenos Aires, which includes both Capital Federal and the surrounding metropolitan area.
Conventillo: tenements that housed immigrants in older neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and Montevideo; this survive in a reduced scale in Buenos Aires barrios of San Telmo and La Boca, and the Ciudad Vieja of Montevideo.
Porteño/a: inhabitant of Buenos Aires (a ‘resident of the port’)
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 Federico Aubele : Gran Hotel Buenos Aires - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The resulting album, Gran Hotel Buenos Aires -- actually produced by Thievery Corporation and released on their label, ESL -- is like the reverse image of trip-hop.
Aubele's songs are atmospheric, driven by sampled beats, and even employ scratching in some cases, but unlike trip-hop, Gran Hotel Buenos Aires is sunny, free-spirited, and celebratory.
Gran Hotel Buenos Aires is a wholly brilliant album and Federico Aubele may be to Argentina what Sigur Rós is to Iceland: the most forward-thinking and experimental artist to capture the sound of his homeland's cultural, symbolic, and physical geography.
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In Gran Buenos Aires, the proportion of homes below the indigence line rose from 5.3% to 7.4% between may 2000 and the same month in 2001 while the population passed from 7.5% to 10.3%, which means that the proportion of indigent homes increased in 39.6% while the population increased in 37.3%, during this year.
While in the City of Buenos Aires, the population underneath this line reaches the 1.7% in the suburbs of Gran Buenos Aires it reaches the 13%.
Besides, in the first stripe of Gran Buenos Aires this number drops down to 8.9%, reaching in the second stripe the 16.4% of the population.
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 Buenos Aires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Founded in 1580, Buenos Aires is one of the world's great cities.
Meat-packing and other food-processing industries, petroleum refineries, and chemical factories have been concentrated in the city's southern side; motor-vehicle assembly plants and varied light industry (such as printing establishments and textile mills) are to the west and north.
As Argentina's principal seaport, Buenos Aires is the country's commercial center.
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 Buenos Aires
The city of Buenos Aires was founded in 1580 as the result of the political decision of the Spanish Government to establish a spot in the "Rio de la Plata" foreseeing the future strategic need to stop the advance of the Portuguese from Brazil.
Nowadays Buenos Aires has three million inhabitants and it is surrounded by an urban conglomerate of seven million inhabitants.
The historical centre of Buenos Aires' City is the "Plaza de Mayo" (May's Park) around which you can find the "Casa Rosada" (the Pink House), the National Government seat; the Cathedral; the "Cabildo" (where the first government was formed in 1810); the National Bank and the Ministries.
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 Best Practices Database: Inter-Sites and services = programme in Gran Buenos Aires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
After the floods that took place in different areas of Gran Buenos Aires and due to a Non-Governamental Organization (Fundaciî —ivienda y Comunidad) a Campaign for Helping people affected by the floods was organized by Caritas Nacional,under the title "Construyamos con Esperanza"(Let s build with Hope).
The project, called Plan Ur-Be,Barrio Don Bosco,Benavidez, Province of Buenos Aires, was presented in the HABITAT II Lecture and was one of the twelve projects to obtain a prize in the Contest of Better Practices in Istambul Turkey in June 1996.
Jorge Newbery 2015 (1643) Beccar- Province of Buenos Aires.Argentina.
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 Buenos Aires Argentina Hotel and Travel Information - Buenos Aires Argentina Hotel
Buenos Aires Travel Guide - It is easy to sightsee in Buenos Aires because of the way it is laid out.
Buenos Aires has many sports venues, The National Polo Field and huge parks such as Parque 3de Fedreko and a Japanese Garden.
Tero Colon is the Buenos Aires Opera house and all three of these places are worth a visit.
www.buenosairescitytourist.com   (383 words)

  
 Buenos Aires (city) - Wikitravel
The Buenos Aires city (official name Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, also called Federal Capital) is the capital of the Argentine Republic.
Theoretically, you can go to Buenos Aires from any of the neighboring countries by car, but it is far away from most of the borders.
Finally for visiting the Atlantic shore of Buenos Aires (province), you head to the southeast access highway and the the route 2, a very good highway to Mar del Plata city.
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 Gran Buenos Aires Hotel: Gran Hotel Buenos Aires de la Paix
Cheap Buenos Aires discount accommodation directory accommodation-finda.com brings you the latest Buenos Aires cheap accommodation at the Gran Hotel Buenos Aires de la Paix in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Latin America.
The Gran Hotel de la Paix, one of the most prestigious establishments in Buenos Aires, has gained its reputation for its three main qualities: unique location, friendly staff and a wide range of facilities to meet the needs of every guest.
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 La Matanza --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The region of the present-day partido was colonized shortly after the second and permanent founding of Buenos Aires (1580).
The name and origin of the partido and cabecera date from the late 16th century, when Juan de Zamora, one of the founders of Buenos Aires, was granted a large landholding on the lomas (“slopes”) in the vicinity.
It lies west of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia.
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 Quilmes --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
cabecera (principal built-up area) and partido (political subdivision), of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, southeast of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires province, Argentina, near the Río de la Plata estuary.
Colonization of the area began with the second and permanent founding of Buenos Aires (1580).
The partido was founded in 1873 and the cabecera is often referred to as Adroqué, the name of its founder, and its railroad station bears that name.
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 Gran Hotel Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires - Gran Hotel Buenos Aires
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Pictures, rooms, and other hotel, location and/or Buenos Aires information listed on these pages is subject to change.
It is the responsibility of Exploitz.com visitors to verify all information when confirming your reservations with Gran Hotel Buenos Aires.
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 Travel to Buenos Aires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Although Gran Buenos Aires has swollen to 13 million people, most tourists stick to the Capital Federal, which is home to 3 million people (called portenios) and is divided into 48 neighborhood (called barrios).
At the eastern end of Avenida de Mayo, one of Microcentro's main east-west boulevards, the Plaza de Mayo attracts a bountiful blend of tourists, students and political activists and is surrounded by many important buildings, including the famous Presidential Palace (Casa Rosada).
Uptown is the ritzy barrio of Recoleta, while the trendy tree-lined Palermo has parks aplenty and Buenos Aires' hottest bars and ethnic eats.
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 Gran Hotel Buenos Aires - Discount Hotel Rooms at Orbitz
The hotel is located in the privileged area of big business companies, where the daring profile of modern architecture rivals the Old World elegance of fin-de-siecle palaces.
The Crillon Hotel is situated amidst one of the most distinctive areas of Buenos Aires and highlights the blend of a classic yet traditional style with the French architecture charm.
Built in the fifties, Crillon Hotel is one of the few hotels in Buenos Aires that keeps the architectural French style that you can also discover in other characteristic places of the city.
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 Gran Hotel Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina - Discount Hotels in Buenos Aires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There are a lot of things to see and do while in Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires area.
The lodging choices are endless, from discount and cheap Buenos Aires hotels to the top of the line in luxury accommodations, Buenos Aires has them all and so do we.
Thank you for viewing our website and finally we wish you an enjoyable and safe stay in Buenos Aires and hope to welcome you back to our Buenos Aires hotels website for you next travel adventure or business trip.
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 Gran Hotel Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This property is located in the privileged area of San Martin Square, surrounded by stunning buildings, the product of an European inheritance in which different architectonic styles, Neo-Gothic, French and Italian with its domes and ornamentation - converge with crystal-made buildings on which the green trees of San Martin Square reflect.
Each of these guest rooms is clean, comfortable and spacious equipped with air conditioning, computer telephone access, spacious closets and cable TV.
The Gran Hotel Buenos Aires is located near San Martin Square.
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 Buenos Aires hotels: Gran Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hotel description, reviews, deals from ...
Buenos Aires hotels: Gran Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Situated perfectly, Gran Buenos Aires hotel is a kilometre from the train station and a few steps from Plaza San Martin and the main shopping area of Florida.
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 Gran Buenos Aires Hotel: Buenos Aires Accommodation and Discount Accommodation
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 Buenos Aires hotels: Gran Argentino, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hotel description, reviews, deals from www.asiahotels.com
Buenos Aires hotels: Gran Argentino, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Gran Argentino Hotel is centrally situated on the world's widest street- Avenue 9th July.
This street is also Buenos Aires most important street.
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 GRAN HOTEL, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Discount Hotel Reservations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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