Living in Argentina

Argentina

Buenos Aires, capital of the Argentine Republic. Divided into at present 47 Barrios or neighbourhoods it is also known as the Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. It is surrounded by the Province of Buenos Aires and the Río de la Plata River. The Province is an almost flat plain limited in the south by the Río Riachuelo River and north by the Río Reconquista River.

The extended city limits reach 19.4 kilometres from north to south and 17.9 kilometres from east to west. In its 202 square kilometres there live approximately 3 million people, adding on to that the metropolitan area proper and the population rises to above 14 million people, making it one of the most densely populated cities in the world.

Buenos Aires is a city with its own personality. Cosmopolitan and contradictory, dynamic and traditional, historical and avant-garde, it opens its arms to the most modern concepts, while at the same time embracing the traditional.

It is the financial, investment and economic centre of the country, as well as its principal port city. It displays a very active commercial activity, which can be seen reflected in the numerous world brand boutiques and sales outlets, commercial galleries and shopping malls.

The city offers an immense range of attractions: Monuments, churches, museums, art galleries and theatres; plazas, parks and public gardens with ancient trees; Barrio neighbourhoods, each with its own characteristic; huge commercial areas, traditional and modern hotels, as well as many first-class restaurants serving both local and international delicacies.

The City never sleeps and proof of this is that many of its bars, cafés, pizza places and restaurants stay open until dawn, especially on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The restaurants that you find in Barrio neighbourhoods such as Puerto Madero, La Recoleta, Palermo and in areas like Costanera Norte, Soho Porteño, Palermo Hollywood and Las Cañitas, are open to the public 24 hours a day.