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Recoleta

Recoleta

Recoleta is a barrio or neighborhood of , , located in the northern part of the city, by the . The area is perhaps best known to be the home of the distinguished Recoleta Cemetery.
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  • Type: Suburb with 158,000 residents
  • Description: neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Also known as: “Recoleta, Buenos Aires”

Places of Interest

Highlights include La Recoleta Cemetery and National Museum of Fine Arts.

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is a located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of , . It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy, and military commanders such as Julio Argentino Roca.

Museum
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The is an art museum in , located in the Recoleta section of the city. The Museum inaugurated a branch in in 2004.

Park
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is a public space in Recoleta, Buenos Aires. It is commonly but mistakenly known as Plaza Francia, as the actual is located at its side. It faces the Recoleta Cemetery and the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Island and Barrio Norte.

Neighborhood
is an exclusive sector in the of Recoleta in , where prominent and wealthy families of the Argentine Upper Class have their homes.

Quarter
is the informal name given to a part of centering on Santa Fe Avenue and the district of Recoleta.

Quarter
, sometimes called Barrio Padre Mugica or Barrio 31, is a large villa miseria in the area of Buenos Aires, near the .

Recoleta

Latitude
-34.58736° or 34° 35′ 15″ south
Longitude
-58.39157° or 58° 23′ 30″ west
Population
158,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Open location code
48Q3CJ75+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 349327388
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
3429595
Wiki­data ID
Q1010253
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Recoleta” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ռեկոլետա”
  • Basque: “Recoleta (Buenos Aires)”
  • Basque: “Recoleta”
  • Catalan: “Barri de la Recoleta”
  • Chinese: “雷科莱塔”
  • Chinese: “雷科萊塔”
  • Dutch: “Recoleta, Buenos Aires”
  • Esperanto: “Recoleta”
  • French: “Recoleta”
  • Galician: “Recoleta”
  • German: “Recoleta”
  • Hebrew: “רקולטה”
  • Italian: “Recoleta”
  • Japanese: “レコレタ (アルゼンチン)”
  • Korean: “레콜레타 동”
  • Korean: “레콜레타”
  • Latin: “Recoleta”
  • Lithuanian: “Rekoleta”
  • Malay: “Recoleta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Recoleta”
  • Norwegian: “Recoleta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Recoleta”
  • Portuguese: “La Recoleta”
  • Portuguese: “Recoleta”
  • Russian: “Реколета”
  • Slovenian: “Recoleta”
  • Spanish: “Barrio de Recoleta”
  • Spanish: “Comuna 2”
  • Spanish: “Recoleta”
  • Spanish: “El Pilar” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Barrio Recoleta”
  • Swedish: “Recoleta”
  • Turkish: “Barrio de Recoleta”
  • Turkish: “Comuna 2”
  • Turkish: “Recoleta, Buenos Aires”
  • Ukrainian: “Реколета”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Recoleta”. Photo: WiDi, CC BY-SA 4.0.