Greater Buenos Aires
Greater Buenos Aires (Spaingie: Gran Buenos Aires; GBA) is the urban agglomeration comprisin the autonomous ceety o Buenos Aires an the adjacent 24 partidos (municipalities) ower the Province o Buenos Aires. Thus, it does no constitute a single admeenistrative unit. The conurbation spreads sooth, wast an north o Buenos Aires ceety. Tae the east, the River Plate serves as a natural boondar.
Gran Buenos Aires | |
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Greater Buenos Aires | |
Kintra | Argentinae
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Ceeties | Leet o ceeties in Greater Buenos Aires |
Area | |
• Metro | 3,830 km2 (1,480 sq mi) |
Population | 12,801,365 (24 partidos plus Federal Destrict) |
• Metro | 13,641,973 (includin partidos no yet conurbatit) |
• Metro density | 3342.39/km2 (8,656.8/sq mi) |
Urban sprawl, especially atween 1945 an 1980, creatit a vast conurbation o 9,910,282 inhabitants in the 24 conurbated partidos, as of 2010, an a total o 12,801,365 includin the Ceety o Buenos Aires, a third o the total population o Argentinae.
History
eeditThe term Gran Buenos Aires ("Greater Buenos Aires") wis first offeecially uised in 1948, when Govrenor o Buenos Aires Province Domingo Mercante signed a bill delineatin as such a aurie coverin 14 coonties surroondin the Ceety o Buenos Aires.[2] The term is relatit tae ither expressions that are no necessarily well-defined an aw: the "Buenos Aires' conurbation" (Conurbano Bonaerense), the "Greater Buenos Aires Agglomeration" (Aglomerado Gran Buenos Aires), an the "Metropolitan Aurie o Buenos Aires" (Área Metropolitana Buenos Aires, AMBA).
Definition
eeditThe Naitional Institute o Statistics an Censuses (INDEC) haes defined Greater Buenos Aires.[3] Thare are three main groups athin the Buenos Aires' Conurbation. The first twa groups (24 partidos) comprise the tradeetional conurbation, or the "conurbation proper". The third group o sax partidos is in process o becomin fully integratit wi the rest.
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As urbanization continues an the conurbation grows, sax addeetional pairtially urbanisit partidos nou are fully connectit wi the conurbation: |
Rank | Partido | Seat | 2010 Census[4] | % growth from 2001 Census[4] |
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* | Buenos Aires | 2,890,151 | 4.1 | |
1 | La Matanza | San Justo | 1,775,816 | 41.5 |
2 | Lomas de Zamora | Lomas de Zamora | 616,279 | 4.2 |
3 | Quilmes | Quilmes | 582,943 | 12.4 |
4 | Almirante Brown | Adrogué | 552,902 | 7.2 |
5 | Merlo | Merlo | 528,494 | 12.4 |
6 | Lanús | Lanús | 459,263 | 1.4 |
7 | Moreno | Moreno | 452,505 | 18.9 |
8 | Florencio Varela | Florencio Varela | 426,005 | 22.1 |
9 | General San Martín | San Martín | 414,196 | 2.8 |
10 | Tigre | Tigre | 376,381 | 25.0 |
11 | Avellaneda | Avellaneda | 342,677 | 4.2 |
12 | Tres de Febrero | Caseros | 340,071 | 1.1 |
13 | Berazategui | Berazategui | 324,344 | 12.6 |
14 | Malvinas Argentinas | Los Polvorines | 322,375 | 10.9 |
15 | Morón | Morón | 321,109 | 3.8 |
16 | Esteban Echeverría | Monte Grande | 300,959 | 23.4 |
17 | San Isidro | San Isidro | 292,878 | 0.5 |
18 | San Miguel | San Miguel | 276,190 | 9.1 |
19 | Vicente López | Olivos | 269,420 | -1.7 |
20 | José C. Paz | José C. Paz | 265,981 | 15.5 |
21 | Hurlingham | Hurlingham | 181,241 | 5.2 |
22 | Ituzaingó | Ituzaingó | 167,824 | 6.1 |
23 | Ezeiza | Ezeiza | 163,722 | 37.8 |
24 | San Fernando | San Fernando | 163,240 | 8.0 |
Leet o ceeties in Greater Buenos Aires
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Gallery
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Avellaneda
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Berazategui
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Ciudad Evita (La Matanza Partido)
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Florencio Varela
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General San Martín
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Haedo (Morón Partido)
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Lanús
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Lomas de Zamora
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Monte Grande (Esteban Echeverría Partido)
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Olivos (Vicente López Partido)
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Ramos Mejía (La Matanza Partido)
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San Antonio de Padua (Merlo Partido)
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San Isidro
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Tigre
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Pan-American Expresswey, north o Buenos Aires
Further readins
eedit- Buzai, G.D. and Marcos, M. (2012). "The social map of Greater Buenos Aires as empirical evidence of urban models". Journal of Latin American Geography. Volume 11 Number 1, pp. 67-78, DOI 10.1353/lag.2012.0012
- Keeling, D. (1996). Buenos Aires: Global Dreams, Local Crisis. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
References
eedit- ↑ "2010 Census provisional results". Archived frae the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ↑ Alicia Novick & Horacio Caride. "Ciudad versus área metropolitana. Notas para una historia del gran Buenos Aires".
- ↑ (in Spaingie) "¿Qué es el Gran Buenos Aires?" (PDF) (Press release). National Institute of Statistics and Censuses. 1 August 2003. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 28 Juin 2008.
- ↑ a b "Provincia de Buenos Aires, 24 partidos del Gran Buenos Aires. Población total y variación intercensal absoluta y relativa por partido. Años 2001-2010" (PDF). INDEC.
- ↑ [1] Archived 2007-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas y Censos
- ↑ Includes Dock Sud, Piñeiro and Crucecita
- ↑ "INDEC eph" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 21 August 2011. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ↑ "INDEC est" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 9 Apryle 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2013.