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Greater Buenos Aires ( es, Gran Buenos Aires, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area ( es, Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, AMBA), refers to the urban agglomeration comprising the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the adjacent 24 '' partidos'' (districts) in the Province of Buenos Aires. Thus, it does not constitute a single administrative unit. The
The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) has defined Greater Buenos Aires.
There are three main groups within the Buenos Aires conurbation. The first two groups (24 '' partidos'') comprise the traditional conurbation, or the "conurbation proper", while the third group of six ''partidos'' is in the process of becoming fully integrated with the rest.
;Fourteen fully urbanized ''partidos''
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INDEC est
File:Centro_de_Berazategui.JPG, Berazategui
File:Ciudad Evita.JPG, Ciudad Evita (La Matanza Partido)
File:Peatonal Florencio Varela 1.jpg, Florencio Varela
File:Viacivitanovamarche.JPG, General San Martín
File:Iglesia Inmaculada concepción....jpg, Monte Grande (Esteban Echeverría Partido)
File:Provincia de Buenos Aires - Vicente López - Avenida Maipú.jpg, Olivos (Vicente López Partido)
File:Quilmes001bis.jpg, Quilmes
File:Parque junto al Museo de Arte Tigre.jpg, Tigre
File:Ruta_Panamericana_Buenos Aires_Florida.jpg, Pan-American Expressway, north of Buenos Aires
conurbation
A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most cas ...
spreads south, west and north of Buenos Aires city. To the east, the River Plate serves as a natural boundary.
Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a city." Urban sprawl has been described as the unrestricted growt ...
, especially between 1945 and 1980, created a vast conurbation of 9,910,282 inhabitants in the 24 conurbated ''partidos'', as of 2010, and a total of 12,801,365 including the City of Buenos Aires, a third of the total population of Argentina
This is a demography of Argentina including population density, ethnicity, economic status and other aspects of the population.
In the , Argentina had a population of 40,117,096 inhabitants, and preliminary results from the counted 47,327, ...
and generating more than half of the country's GDP.
History
The term ''Gran Buenos Aires'' ("Greater Buenos Aires") was first officially used in 1948, when Governor of Buenos Aires ProvinceDomingo Mercante
Domingo Mercante (June 11, 1898 – February 21, 1976) was an Argentine military officer and governor of the province of Buenos Aires. He stood out as one of the initiators of Peronism, organizing labor mobilizations that ended on 17 October 19 ...
signed a bill delineating as such an area covering 14 municipalities surrounding the City of Buenos Aires. The term is also related to other expressions that are not necessarily well-defined: the "Buenos Aires' conurbation" (''Conurbano Bonaerense''), the "Greater Buenos Aires Agglomeration" (''Aglomerado Gran Buenos Aires''), and the "Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires" (''Área Metropolitana Buenos Aires'', AMBA).
Definition
The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) has defined Greater Buenos Aires.
There are three main groups within the Buenos Aires conurbation. The first two groups (24 '' partidos'') comprise the traditional conurbation, or the "conurbation proper", while the third group of six ''partidos'' is in the process of becoming fully integrated with the rest.
;Fourteen fully urbanized ''partidos''
* Avellaneda
Avellaneda (, ) is a port city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the seat of the Avellaneda Partido, whose population was 342,677 as per the . Avellaneda is located within the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, and is conne ...
* General San Martín
* Hurlingham
* Ituzaingó
* José C. Paz
* Lanús
* Lomas de Zamora
* Malvinas Argentinas
* Morón
* Quilmes
* San Isidro
* San Miguel
* Tres de Febrero
* Vicente López
;Ten ''partidos'' partially urbanized
* Almirante Brown
* Berazategui :''This article contains information about the town of Berazategui. See also Berazategui Partido for the wider neighbourhood.''
Berazategui is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, located to the south-east of Quilmes. It is the head town o ...
* Esteban Echeverría
* Ezeiza
* Florencio Varela
* La Matanza
* Merlo
* Moreno
* San Fernando
* Tigre
;Six ''partidos'' not yet conurbated
As urbanization continues and the conurbation grows, six additional partially urbanized ''partidos'' now are fully connected with the conurbation
A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most cas ...
:
* Escobar
* General Rodríguez
* Marcos Paz
* Pilar
* Presidente Perón
* San Vicente
List of cities in Greater Buenos Aires
Gallery
References
Further reading
* Buzai, G.D. and Marcos, M. (2012). "The social map of Greater Buenos Aires as empirical evidence of urban models". ''Journal of Latin American Geography''. Volume 11 Number 1, pp. 67–78, DOI 10.1353/lag.2012.0012 * Keeling, D. (1996). ''Buenos Aires: Global Dreams, Local Crisis''. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. {{Authority control Geography of Buenos Aires ProvinceBuenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...