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San Nicolas

San Nicolás is one of the neighbourhoods of , , sharing most of the city and national government Neighborhood of Buenos Aires with neighboring Montserrat and home to much of the .
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  • Type: Suburb with 28,700 residents
  • Description: neighbourhood of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Also known as: “San Nicolas, Buenos Aires” and “San Nicolás, Buenos Aires”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Teatro Colón and Obelisk.

Theater building
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The is a historic opera house in , . It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic.

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The Obelisco de Buenos Aires is a national historic monument and icon of . Located in the Plaza de la República in the intersection of avenues Corrientes and 9 de Julio, the reinforced concrete structure was erected in 1936 to commemorate the quadricentennial of the .

Theater building
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The Teatro Broadway is an Art Deco style theatre in , which opened on October 11, 1930. Located near the centre of the city at 1155 Corrientes Avenue, it was designed by the architect Jorge Kálnay.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Monserrat and Microcentro.

Suburb
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or Montserrat is a neighbourhood in the east of the Buenos Aires CBD. The district features some of the most important public buildings in Buenos Aires, including city hall, the city legislature, , the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and…

Quarter
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The center of has most of the city's attractions, including performances in the Tribunales theater district, the dense downtown area with government buildings, the San Telmo tango scene, and the biggest train station and the general bus station that offers connections to the surrounding provinces and neighboring countries.

Photo: Roger Schultz, CC BY 2.0.
The center of has most of the city's attractions, including performances in the Tribunales theater district, the dense downtown area with government buildings, the San Telmo tango scene, and the biggest train station and the general bus station that offers connections to the surrounding provinces and neighboring countries.

San Nicolas

Latitude
-34.60446° or 34° 36′ 16″ south
Longitude
-58.3845° or 58° 23′ 4″ west
Population
28,700
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
Open location code
48Q39JW8+66
Open­Street­Map ID
node 349331897
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6693229
Wiki­data ID
Q2006239
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Turkish—“San Nicolas” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սան Նիկոլաս”
  • Basque: “San Nicolás (Buenos Aires)”
  • Basque: “San Nicolás”
  • Catalan: “San Nicolás”
  • Chinese: “San Nicolás”
  • Chinese: “圣尼古拉斯”
  • Chinese: “聖尼古拉斯 (布宜諾斯艾利斯)”
  • Dutch: “San Nicolás”
  • French: “San Nicolas”
  • French: “San Nicolás”
  • German: “San Nicolás”
  • Italian: “San Nicolás (Buenos Aires)”
  • Italian: “San Nicolás”
  • Japanese: “サン・ニコラス”
  • Latin: “San Nicolás”
  • Lithuanian: “San Nikolasas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “San Nicolás”
  • Portuguese: “San Nicolás”
  • Russian: “Сан-Николас”
  • Serbian: “San Nicolás”
  • Serbian: “San Nikolas”
  • Serbian: “Сан Николас”
  • Slovenian: “San Nicolás”
  • Spanish: “Centro”
  • Spanish: “Microcentro”
  • Spanish: “San Nicolás”
  • Turkish: “San Nicolás”

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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 “San Nicolas”. Photo: Bleff, CC BY-SA 3.0.