Microcentro
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.Photo: Luis Argerich, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Quarter
- Description: unofficial neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Also known as: “Buenos Aires Central Business District” and “Buenos Aires/Microcentro”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Teatro Colón and Teatro Maipo.
Teatro Colón
Theater building
Teatro Maipo
Theater building
Photo: Soli.cc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Teatro Maipo is a historic theatre in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was founded in 1908 by entrepreneur Charles Seguin, and was first called the Scala Theater.
Obelisk
Photo: Sebastianalmaraz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Obelisco de Buenos Aires is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires. 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 first foundation of the city.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Centro and San Nicolas.
Centro
Photo: Roger Schultz, CC BY 2.0.
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.
San Nicolas
Suburb
Photo: Bleff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Nicolás is one of the neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentina, sharing most of the city and national government Neighborhood of Buenos Aires with neighboring Montserrat and home to much of the financial sector.
Retiro
Suburb
Photo: Carlos Ravazzani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Microcentro
- Categories: central business district, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Comuna 1, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Pampas, Argentina, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-34.60168° or 34° 36′ 6″ southLongitude
-58.37593° or 58° 22′ 33″ westOpen location code
48Q39JXF+8JOpenStreetMap ID
node 1637490509OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterWikidata ID
Q4985514
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Spanish—“Microcentro” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բուենոս Այրեսի կենտրոնական գործարար թաղամաս”
- Chinese: “布宜诺斯艾利斯中央商务区”
- Chinese: “布宜諾斯艾利斯中央商務區”
- German: “Buenos Aires/Zentrum”
- Hebrew: “בואנוס איירס/מיקרוסנטרו”
- Japanese: “ブエノスアイレス中心業務地区”
- Spanish: “Buenos Aires/Microcentro”
- Spanish: “City portena”
- Spanish: “City porteña”
- Spanish: “La City portena”
- Spanish: “La City porteña”
- Spanish: “La City”
- Spanish: “Microcentro porteno”
- Spanish: “Microcentro porteño”
- Spanish: “Microcentro”
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