Communes of Buenos Aires

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The comunas separately coloured, showing neighbourhood divisions Comunas.svg
The comunas separately coloured, showing neighbourhood divisions

The city of Buenos Aires is administratively divided into fifteen comunas, [1] unlike the Province of Buenos Aires, which is subdivided into partidos , or the rest of Argentina, in which the second-order administrative division is departamentos . [2] Each comuna encompasses one or more neighbourhoods (barrios), which are represented in the respective community centres for administrative purposes. [3]

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The division by comunas was instituted by the 1996 Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires, [4] and modified in 2005 by Law #1777. [5] The law was again modified in 2008, [6] 2011, [7] and 2013. [8]

List of comunas

The comunas are serially numbered. They are listed below in numerical order together with their constituent neighbourhoods. [9]

  1. Comuna 1: Puerto Madero, San Nicolás, Retiro, Monserrat, San Telmo and Constitución
  2. Comuna 2: Recoleta
  3. Comuna 3: Balvanera and San Cristóbal
  4. Comuna 4: La Boca, Barracas, Parque Patricios and Nueva Pompeya
  5. Comuna 5: Almagro and Boedo
  6. Comuna 6: Caballito
  7. Comuna 7: Flores and Parque Chacabuco
  8. Comuna 8: Villa Soldati, Villa Lugano and Villa Riachuelo
  9. Comuna 9: Parque Avellaneda, Mataderos and Liniers
  10. Comuna 10: Villa Luro, Vélez Sársfield, Floresta, Monte Castro, Villa Real and Versalles
  11. Comuna 11: Villa Devoto, Villa del Parque, Villa Santa Rita and Villa General Mitre
  12. Comuna 12: Villa Pueyrredón, Villa Urquiza, Coghlan and Saavedra
  13. Comuna 13: Núñez, Belgrano and Colegiales
  14. Comuna 14: Palermo
  15. Comuna 15: Villa Ortúzar, Chacarita, Villa Crespo, La Paternal, Agronomía and Parque Chas

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  6. Ley Orgánica de Comunas, Nº 2650
  7. Nº 3802 Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine and Nº 4013 Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine of 2011
  8. Nº 4630 Archived 3 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine of 2013
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