Flores
Flores is a middle-class barrio or district in the center part of Buenos Aires city, Argentina. Flores was considered a rural area of the Province of Buenos Aires until 1888 when it was integrated into the city. Flores is the birthplace of Pope Francis.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 164,000 residents
- Description: neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Also known as: “Flores, Buenos Aires”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Plaza General Pueyrredón and Basilica of St. Joseph.
San José de Flores
Metro station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5 ar.
San José de Flores is a station on Line A of the Buenos Aires Underground. The station connects with Flores station on the Sarmiento Line commuter rail service.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Floresta and Caballito.
Floresta
Suburb
Photo: Santiago matamoro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Floresta is a neighbourhood located to the west of Buenos Aires. The district developed and was named after Buenos Aires Western Railway's first terminal station's area called La Floresta, in 1857.
Caballito
Suburb
Photo: OneEuropeanHeart, CC BY 4.0.
Caballito is a barrio of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. It is the only barrio in the administrative division Comuna 6. It is located in the geographical centre of the city, limited by the following streets and avenues: Rio de Janeiro, Av.
Villa General Mitre
Suburb
Photo: Beatrice Murch, CC BY 2.0.
Villa General Mitre is a neighborhood, or barrio, of Buenos Aires. The ward has a land area of 2.2 km2, and a population of 36,000. It was named after General Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868, who had died in 1906, two years before the establishment of the barrio.
Flores
- Categories: neighborhood of Buenos Aires and locality
- Location: Comuna 7, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Pampas, Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-34.6282° or 34° 37′ 42″ southLongitude
-58.46222° or 58° 27′ 44″ westPopulation
164,000Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)Open location code
48Q39GCQ+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 349129164OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3433918Wikidata ID
Q643907
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“Flores” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ֆլորես”
- Basque: “Flores (Buenos Aires)”
- Basque: “Flores”
- Belarusian: “Флёрэс”
- Belarusian: “Флорэс”
- Catalan: “Flores (Buenos Aires)”
- Catalan: “Flores”
- Central Kurdish: “فلۆریس”
- Chinese: “弗洛雷斯區”
- Czech: “Flores”
- Danish: “Flores”
- Dutch: “Flores”
- French: “Flores (Buenos Aires)”
- French: “Flores”
- Galician: “Flores”
- German: “Flores (Buenos Aires)”
- German: “Flores”
- Hebrew: “פלורס (בואנוס איירס)”
- Hungarian: “Flores”
- Irish: “Flores”
- Italian: “Flores (Buenos Aires)”
- Italian: “Flores”
- Japanese: “フローレス (ブエノスアイレス)”
- Japanese: “フローレス”
- Kashmiri: “فلوریس، بیٛونس آیرس”
- Latin: “Flores (Bonaëropolis)”
- Latin: “Flores”
- Lithuanian: “Floresas”
- Luxembourgish: “Flores”
- Portuguese: “Flores”
- Russian: “Флорес (Буэнос-Айрес)”
- Russian: “Флорес”
- Scots: “Flores, Buenos Aires”
- Scots: “Flores”
- Slovak: “Flores”
- Spanish: “Flores (Buenos Aires)”
- Spanish: “Flores”
- Swedish: “Barrio Flores”
- Swedish: “Flores”
- Turkish: “Flores”
- Urdu: “فلورس، بیونس آئرس”
- “Flores”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Galeria Mil Flores and Galeria Flores Center.
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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 “Flores”. Photo: Moemoemoe, CC0.