Greater Buenos Aires | |
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Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area Área Metropolitana de Buenos Airess | |
![]() Map of Greater Buenos Aires Autonomous City of Buenos Aires 24 official partidos of Buenos Aires Partidos sometimes included | |
Country | ![]() |
Core city | ![]() |
Area | |
• Metro | 3,833 km2 (1,480 sq mi) |
Population | 10,865,182 (24 partidos ) [1] |
• Metro | 13,985,794 (including the Federal District and 24 partidos) [1] |
• Metro density | 3,926.1/km2 (10,169/sq mi) |
GDP (PPP, constant 2015 values) | |
• Year | 2023 |
• Total | $356.8 billion [2] |
• Per capita | $23,000 |
Greater Buenos Aires (Spanish : Gran Buenos Aires, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (Spanish : Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, AMBA), [3] 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 conurbation spreads south, west and north of Buenos Aires city. To the east, the River Plate serves as a natural boundary.
Urban sprawl, especially between 1945 and 1980, created a vast metropolitan area of over 3,800 km² (1,500 mi²) [4] - or 19 times the area of Buenos Aires proper. The 24 suburban partidos (counties) grew more than six-fold in population between the 1947 and 2022 censuses - or nearly 2.5% annually, compared to 1.4% for the nation as a whole. [5] [1]
While annual growth for the suburban area slowed to 0.8% between 2010 and 2022, the 14 million inhabitants in the entire 30-county area plus the City of Buenos Aires account for a third of the total population of Argentina and generate nearly half (48%) of the country's GDP. [4]
The term Gran Buenos Aires ("Greater Buenos Aires") was first officially used in 1948, when Governor of Buenos Aires Province Domingo Mercante signed a bill delineating as such an area covering 14 municipalities surrounding the City of Buenos Aires. [6] 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). In colloquial speech, people refer to the "Buenos Aires' conurbation" as the set of municipalities that surround the City of Buenos Aires, and which are mostly populated by working-class or middle-class communities.
The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) has defined Greater Buenos Aires. [7] 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.
As urbanization continues and the conurbation grows, six additional partially urbanized partidos (totaling 1,062,991 population of as the 2022 census) [1] are now fully connected with the conurbation:
Rank | Partido | Seat | 2010 Census [8] | % growth from 2001 Census [8] | 2022 Census [1] | % growth from 2010 Census [1] |
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* | Buenos Aires | 2,890,151 | 4.1 | 3,120,612 | 8.0 | |
1 | La Matanza | San Justo | 1,775,816 | 41.5 | 1,837,774 | 3.5 |
2 | Lomas de Zamora | Lomas de Zamora | 616,279 | 4.2 | 694,330 | 12.7 |
3 | Quilmes | Quilmes | 582,943 | 12.4 | 636,026 | 9.1 |
4 | Almirante Brown | Adrogué | 552,902 | 7.2 | 585,852 | 6.0 |
5 | Merlo | Merlo | 528,494 | 12.4 | 580,806 | 9.9 |
6 | Moreno | Moreno | 452,505 | 18.9 | 574,374 | 26.9 |
7 | Florencio Varela | Florencio Varela | 426,005 | 22.1 | 497,818 | 16.9 |
8 | Lanús | Lanús | 459,263 | 1.4 | 462,051 | 0.6 |
9 | General San Martín | San Martín | 414,196 | 2.8 | 450,335 | 8.7 |
10 | Tigre | Tigre | 376,381 | 25.0 | 447,785 | 19.0 |
11 | Avellaneda | Avellaneda | 342,677 | 4.2 | 370,939 | 8.2 |
12 | Tres de Febrero | Caseros | 340,071 | 1.1 | 366,377 | 7.7 |
13 | Berazategui | Berazategui | 324,344 | 12.6 | 360,582 | 11.2 |
14 | Malvinas Argentinas | Los Polvorines | 322,375 | 10.9 | 351,788 | 9.1 |
15 | Esteban Echeverría | Monte Grande | 300,959 | 23.4 | 339,030 | 12.6 |
16 | Morón | Morón | 321,109 | 3.8 | 334,178 | 4.1 |
17 | San Miguel | San Miguel | 276,190 | 9.1 | 326,215 | 18.1 |
18 | José C. Paz | José C. Paz | 265,981 | 15.5 | 323,918 | 21.8 |
19 | San Isidro | San Isidro | 292,878 | 0.5 | 298,777 | 2.0 |
20 | Vicente López | Olivos | 269,420 | -1.7 | 283,510 | 5.2 |
21 | Ezeiza | Ezeiza | 163,722 | 37.8 | 203,283 | 24.2 |
22 | Hurlingham | Hurlingham | 181,241 | 5.2 | 187,122 | 3.2 |
23 | Ituzaingó | Ituzaingó | 167,824 | 6.1 | 179,788 | 7.1 |
24 | San Fernando | San Fernando | 163,240 | 8.0 | 172,524 | 5.7 |
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Buenos Aires, officially the Buenos Aires Province, is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of the province and the province's capital until it was federalized in 1880. Since then, in spite of bearing the same name, the province does not include Buenos Aires city, though it does include all other parts of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The capital of the province is the city of La Plata, founded in 1882.
La Plata is the capital city of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. According to the 2022 census, the Partido has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers inland from the southern shore of the Río de la Plata estuary.
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