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Information about Buenos Aires

Description de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Limits of the City of Buenos Aires
North:Party of Vicente López.
South:Party of Lomas de Zamora.
East:Partido de Avellaneda.
West:Partido de Tres de Febrero.

Limits in addition to Northwest with the Party of General San Martin, the Northeast with the Rio de la Plata; the Southwest with the Partido de La Matanza and the Southeast with the Party of Lanus. All Party bordering the city of Buenos Aires, belong to the so-called Greater Buenos Aires area, which occupies 3,680 km2 and part of Buenos along with the city that make up the metropolitan area of 3,880 km2.

Location
The City of Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina. Located in the southern hemisphere of the Americas, latitude 34 º 36 'and longitude 58 º 26'.
The town runs on a flat land of 19.4 kilometers from north to south and 17.9 kilometers from east to west. In his area of 202 square kilometers live about three million inhabitants which represent 7.6% of the country. However, along with the metropolitan area, the population of Buenos Aires amounted to 12 million. The Rio de la Plata and the “Riachuelo” are the natural limits of the city to the east and south. The rest of the metropolitan area is surrounded by the General Paz Avenue, which borders the city from north to west.

Streets
The City of Buenos Aires streets comprises approximately 2000. Formerly in 1580 had only 144 apples equal and square.
The dimension in those years was a stick, so it is estimated that on average every 11 rods wide. At present have around 17 meters and every block is 11,370 meters. The names of each street is the main characters relate to the country and abroad, highlighting the neighborhood of Puerto Madero streets whose names are for women who made history in Argentina.
The city consists of 195 avenues highlighting two of them, one is the widest in the world: Avenue July 9 and the other is the longest: Avenida Rivadavia. There are also some 500 passages in different neighborhoods of the city as also cobbled streets that retain the history of each site.
The May 25 highway linking the city with the southern part of the province of Buenos Aires and Perito Moreno communicates with the area west of the province.

River Plate
The discovery of the River Plate is an issue which to this day is a mystery who were the first to navigate these waters.
The river had different names. The so called natural river Aos (sea lions), Uruay (birds), Paraguay (Meeting of rivers).