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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital of and one of Latin America's most culturally significant cities. It is a city of beautiful parks and belle epoque architecture, a place of big historical events, and a city of intimate cafes and cosmopolitan nightlife.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Centro and Palermo & Recoleta.

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The center of Buenos Aires 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.

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The northern part of Buenos Aires includes hip Palermo and affluent Recoleta.

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The south of Buenos Aires includes the colorful La Boca and Barracas neighborhoods. La Boca is a working class district of Buenos Aires, considered Buenos Aires's most colorful neighborhood with a very outgoing personality.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Outskirts.

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Belgrano is a northern barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, . It is made up of middle and upper class people. Belgrano has three distinct areas: the main one that is made up of apartment buildings, Belgrano "R" which is a leafy suburb area with English architecture, and Buenos Aires' .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Teatro Colón and Casa Rosada.

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

Government office
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The , lit. 'the pink house', is the president of the Argentine Republic's official workplace, located in Buenos Aires. The palatial mansion is known officially as Casa de Gobierno.

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is a landmark office building, located at 1370 , in the neighborhood of , Buenos Aires, . It stood as Buenos Aires' tallest building for more than a decade until the construction of the in 1936.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Balvanera and Recoleta.

Suburb
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is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, .

Suburb
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is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, , located in the northern part of the city, by the . The area is perhaps best known to be the home of the distinguished Cemetery.

Suburb
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is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located in the north of the city, near the . It has a total land area of 17.4 km2 and a population of 249,016.

Buenos Aires

Latitude
-34.6096° or 34° 36′ 34″ south
Longitude
-58.3888° or 58° 23′ 20″ west
Population
3,120,000
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
IATA airport code
BUE
United Nations Location Code
AR BUE
Open location code
48Q39JR6+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 81590481
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3435910
Wiki­data ID
Q1486
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Buenos Aires” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Буенос-Аирес”
  • Achinese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Adyghe: “Буэнос Айрес”
  • Afrikaans: “Buenos Aires”
  • Albanian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Amharic: “ብዌኖስ አይሬስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Εὐαερόπολις”
  • Angika: “ब्यूनस आयर्स”
  • Arabic: “بوينس آيرس”
  • Aragonese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Armenian: “Բուենոս Այրես”
  • Arpitan: “Buenos Aires”
  • Assamese: “ব্যুনেচ আইৰিচ”
  • Asturian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Aymara: “Buenos Aires”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buenos Ayres”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buenos-Ayres”
  • Balinese: “Buénos Airés”
  • Bambara: “Buenos Aires”
  • Bashkir: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Basque: “Buenos Aires”
  • Bavarian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Belarusian: “Буэнас-Айрэс”
  • Bengali: “বুয়েনােস্ এয়ারিস্”
  • Bengali: “বুয়েনোস আইরেস”
  • Bengali: “বুয়েনোস এইরেস”
  • Bengali: “বুয়েন্স আইরেস”
  • Bengali: “বুয়েন্স আয়ার্স”
  • Bishnupriya: “বুৱেনোস আইরেস”
  • Bosnian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Breton: “Buenos Aires”
  • Bulgarian: “Буенос Айрес”
  • Burmese: “ဗျူနိုအေးရိစ်မြို့”
  • Burmese: “ဘွေနို့စ်အိုင်းရဲ့စ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Buenos Aires”
  • Cebuano: “Buenos Aires”
  • Central Bikol: “Buenos Aires”
  • Central Kurdish: “بوێنس ئایریس”
  • Central Kurdish: “بۆینس ئایرس”
  • Chamorro: “Buenos Aires”
  • Chavacano: “Ciudad de Buenos Aires”
  • Chechen: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Cheyenne: “Buenos Aires”
  • Chinese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Chinese: “布宜诺斯艾利斯”
  • Chinese: “布宜諾斯艾利斯”
  • Chuvash: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Cornish: “Buenos Aires”
  • Corsican: “Buenos Aires”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Buenos Ayres”
  • Croatian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Czech: “Buenos Aires”
  • Dagbani: “Buenos Aires”
  • Danish: “Buenos Aires”
  • Danish: “Buenos Ayres”
  • Danish: “Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires”
  • Danish: “Ciudad de Buenos Aires”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Buenos Aires”
  • Dotyali: “ब्यूनस आयर्स”
  • Dutch: “Buenos Aires”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوينوس ايريس”
  • Erzya: “Буэнос-Айрес ош”
  • Esperanto: “Bonaero”
  • Esperanto: “Buenos-Ajreso”
  • Esperanto: “Buenosajreso”
  • Estonian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Ewe: “Buenos Aires”
  • Extremaduran: “Buenos Aires”
  • Faroese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Buenos Aires”
  • Fijian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Finnish: “Buenos Aires”
  • French: “Buenos Aires”
  • Gagauz: “Buenos Aires”
  • Galician: “Bos Aires”
  • Galician: “Buenos Aires”
  • Georgian: “ბუენოს-აირესი”
  • German: “Buenos Aires”
  • German: “Buenos Ayres”
  • German: “Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Buenos Aires”
  • Gilaki: “بۊئنؤس آیرس”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌿𐌴𐌽𐌰𐌿𐍃 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌴𐍃”
  • Greek: “Μπουένος ΄Aιρες”
  • Greek: “Μπουένος Άιρες”
  • Guarani: “Buenos Aires”
  • Guarani: “Vuenosáire”
  • Gujarati: “બ્યુનોસ એરેસ”
  • Haitian: “Bwènozè”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Hausa: “Buenos Aires”
  • Hawaiian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Hebrew: “בואנוס איירס”
  • Hindi: “ब्युएनॉस एरीस”
  • Hindi: “ब्यूनस आयर्स”
  • Hungarian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Hungarian: “Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María de los Buenos Aires”
  • Icelandic: “Búenos Aíres”
  • Ido: “Buenos Aires”
  • Iloko: “Buenos Aires”
  • Inari Sami: “Buenos Aires”
  • Indonesian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Ingush: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Interlingua: “Buenos Aires”
  • Interlingue: “Buenos Aires”
  • Irish: “Buenos Aires”
  • Italian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Buenos Aires”
  • Japanese: “ブエノスアイレス”
  • Japanese: “銀の女王”
  • Javanese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Kabardian: “Буенос Айрес”
  • Kabardian: “Буэнос Аирэс”
  • Kabiyè: “Puyenezɛrɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Buenos Aires”
  • Kalaallisut: “Buenos Aires”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Buenos Aires”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಯೂನಸ್ ಐರಿಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ವೇನೊಸ್ ಐರೇಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Buenos-Ayres”
  • Kashmiri: “بیٛونس آیرس”
  • Kazakh: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Buenos Aires”
  • Kirghiz: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Kongo: “Buenos Aires”
  • Korean: “부에노스아이레스”
  • Kotava: “Buenos Aires”
  • Kurdish: “Buenos Aires”
  • Ladino: “Buenos Ayres”
  • Lao: “ບູໂນສ ແອຣີສ”
  • Latin: “Bonaeropolis”
  • Latin: “Bonaëropolis”
  • Latin: “Bonus Aër”
  • Latvian: “Buenosairesa”
  • Lezghian: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Ligurian: “Bonesàire”
  • Limburgan: “Buenos Aires”
  • Lingala: “Buenos Aires”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Buenos Aires”
  • Literary Chinese: “布宜諾斯艾利斯”
  • Literary Chinese: “諾賽爾”
  • Lithuanian: “Buenos Airės”
  • Livvi: “Buenos Aires”
  • Livvi: “Buenos-Aires”
  • Lojban: “buenosaires”
  • Lombard: “Buenos Aires”
  • Low German: “Buenos Aires”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Luxembourgish: “Buenos Aires”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Macedonian: “Буенос Аирес”
  • Malagasy: “Buenos Aires”
  • Malay: “Buenos Aires”
  • Malayalam: “എഫ്”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്യൂണസ് അയേഴ്സ്”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്യൂണസ് ഐറീസ്”
  • Maltese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯨꯏꯅꯣꯁ ꯑꯩꯔꯦꯁ”
  • Manx: “Buenos Aires”
  • Maori: “Buenos Aires”
  • Marathi: “बुएनोस आइरेस”
  • Mazanderani: “بوینس آیرس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Minangkabau: “Buenos Aires”
  • Mingrelian: “ბუენოს–აირესი”
  • Mirandese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Mirandese: “Buonos Aires”
  • Moksha: “Буэнос Айрэс”
  • Moksha: “Буэнос-Айрэс”
  • Mongolian: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوينوس آيريس”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوينوس أيرس”
  • Narom: “Bouonézâr”
  • Navajo: “Níłchʼi Yáʼádaatʼéehii”
  • Neapolitan: “Buenos Aires”
  • Nepali: “बुएनोस आइरेस”
  • Nepali: “ब्यूनस आयर्स”
  • Newari: “बुयनोस आयरेस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Northern Luri: “بوئنس آیرس”
  • Northern Sami: “Buenos Aires”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buenos Aires”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buenos Aires”
  • Norwegian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Novial: “Buenos Aires”
  • Nyanja: “Buenos Aires”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Buenos Aires”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gōdwindburg”
  • Oriya: “ବୁଏନ୍ସ ଏଆରସ”
  • Ossetian: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Pangasinan: “Buenos Aires”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਿਊਨਸ ਆਇਰਸ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੁਏਨਸ ਆਇਰਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Buenos Aires”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Buenos Aires”
  • Persian: “بوئنس آيرس”
  • Persian: “بوئنوس آیرس”
  • Persian: “بونس آيرس”
  • Picard: “Buenos Aires”
  • Piemontese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Polish: “Buenos Aires”
  • Portuguese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Portuguese: “CABA”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Autônoma de Buenos Aires”
  • Portuguese: “Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires”
  • Pushto: “بوئنوس آيرز”
  • Pushto: “بوینس آیرس”
  • Quechua: “Buenos Aires”
  • Romanian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Romansh: “Buenos Aires”
  • Rundi: “Buenos Aires”
  • Russia Buriat: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Russian: “Автономный город Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Russian: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Rusyn: “Буенос Аірес”
  • Sakizaya: “Pu-yi-nuo-se-ay-li-se”
  • Samogitian: “Buenas Airēs”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱩᱭᱮᱱᱳᱥ ᱟᱭᱨᱮᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Buenos Aires”
  • Scots: “Buenos Aires”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Buenos Aires”
  • Serbian: “Буенос Аирес”
  • Serbian: “Буенос Ајрес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Shona: “Buenos Aires”
  • Sicilian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Silesian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Sindhi: “بيونس آئرس”
  • Sinhala: “බුවනොස් අයිරීස්”
  • Sinhala: “බුවනොස් එයාර්ස්”
  • Sinhala: “බුවනෝස් අයර්ස්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Buenos Aires”
  • Slovak: “Buenos Aires”
  • Slovenian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Somali: “Biweynos ayris”
  • Somali: “Buenos Aires”
  • Somali: “Buweynos ayres”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوئنوس آیرس”
  • Southern Sotho: “Buenos Aires”
  • Spanish: “Buenos Aires”
  • Spanish: “CABA”
  • Spanish: “Capital Federal”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires”
  • Spanish: “Baires” (historical)
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de La Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María del Buen Ayre” (historical)
  • Spanish: “Santa María del Buen Ayre” (historical)
  • Swahili: “Buenos Aires”
  • Swedish: “Buenos Aires”
  • Swiss German: “Buenos Aires”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Buenos Aires”
  • Tahitian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Tajik: “Буэнос Айрес”
  • Talysh: “Buenos Ajres”
  • Talysh: “Buenos-Ayres”
  • Tamil: “பிஏனோஸ் ஐரிஸ்”
  • Tamil: “புவெனஸ் ஐரிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Telugu: “బ్యూనస్ ఏరీస్”
  • Telugu: “బ్యూనస్ ఏరెస్”
  • Telugu: “బ్వేనౌస్ ఐరిస్”
  • Tetum: “Buenos Aires”
  • Thai: “บัวโนสไอเรส”
  • Tibetan: “པུ་ཨེ་ནོ་སི་ཨས་རི་སི།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Buenos Ares”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Tumbuka: “Buenos Aires”
  • Turkish: “Buenos Aires şehri”
  • Turkish: “Buenos Aires”
  • Turkish: “CABA”
  • Turkish: “Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires”
  • Turkmen: “Buenos-Aýres”
  • Twi: “Buenos Aires”
  • Twi: “Buenɔs Aires”
  • Udmurt: “Буэнос-Айрес”
  • Uighur: “Buénos Ayrés”
  • Ukrainian: “Буенос-Айрес”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Urdu: “بیونس آئرس”
  • Uzbek: “Buenos Ayres”
  • Venetian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Veps: “Buenos Aires”
  • Vietnamese: “Buenos Aires”
  • Vietnamese: “CABA”
  • Vietnamese: “Paris của Nam Mỹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Paris phương nam”
  • Vlax Romani: “Buenos Aires”
  • Volapük: “Buenos Aires”
  • Võro: “Buenos Aires”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Buenos Aires”
  • Welsh: “Buenos Aires”
  • Western Armenian: “Պուէնոս Այրէս”
  • Western Frisian: “Buenos Aires”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیونس آئرس”
  • Wu Chinese: “布宜诺斯艾利斯”
  • Yakut: “Буэнос Айрес”
  • Yiddish: “בוענאס איירעס”
  • Yoruba: “Buenos Aires”
  • Yue Chinese: “布宜諾市”
  • Yue Chinese: “布宜諾斯愛利斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “布宜諾斯艾利斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “布市”
  • Zeeuws: “Buenos Aires”
  • Zhuang: “Buyijnozsw Aihliswh”
  • Zulu: “Buenos Aires”
  • Zulu: “i-Buenos Aires”
  • “Buenas Airēs”
  • “Buenos Aires”
  • “Buenuxâires”
  • “ma tomo Puwenosale”

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