Greater Buenos Aires

Greater Buenos Aires (Spanish: Gran Buenos Aires, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (Spanish: Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, AMBA),[2] 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.

Not to be confused with the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, the core city of Greater Buenos Aires.
Gran Buenos Aires
Greater Buenos Aires
Satellite image of Greater Buenos Aires at night
Country Argentina
Core cityBuenos Aires
Area
 • Metro
3,830 km2 (1,480 sq mi)
Population
 (INDEC 2010 Census[1])
12,801,365 (24 partidos plus Federal District)
 • Metro
13,641,973 (including partidos not yet conurbated)
 • Metro density3,342.39/km2 (8,656.8/sq mi)

Urban sprawl, 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 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 Province Domingo Mercante signed a bill delineating as such an area covering 14 municipalities surrounding the City of Buenos Aires.[3] 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
Map of Greater Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, city, and vicinities, Landsat 8 satellite image.

The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) has defined Greater Buenos Aires.[4] 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
Ten partidos partially urbanized
Six partidos not yet conurbated

As urbanization continues and the conurbation grows, six additional partially urbanized partidos now are fully connected with the conurbation:

Rank Partido Seat 2010 Census[5] % growth from
2001 Census[5]
* Buenos Aires 2,890,151 4.1
1 La Matanza San Justo 1,775,816 41.5
2 Lomas de Zamora Lomas de Zamora 616,279 4.2
3 Quilmes Quilmes 582,943 12.4
4 Almirante Brown Adrogué 552,902 7.2
5 Merlo Merlo 528,494 12.4
6 Lanús Lanús 459,263 1.4
7 Moreno Moreno 452,505 18.9
8 Florencio Varela Florencio Varela 426,005 22.1
9 General San Martín San Martín 414,196 2.8
10 Tigre Tigre 376,381 25.0
11 Avellaneda Avellaneda 342,677 4.2
12 Tres de Febrero Caseros 340,071 1.1
13 Berazategui Berazategui 324,344 12.6
14 Malvinas Argentinas Los Polvorines 322,375 10.9
15 Morón Morón 321,109 3.8
16 Esteban Echeverría Monte Grande 300,959 23.4
17 San Isidro San Isidro 292,878 0.5
18 San Miguel San Miguel 276,190 9.1
19 Vicente López Olivos 269,420 -1.7
20 José C. Paz José C. Paz 265,981 15.5
21 Hurlingham Hurlingham 181,241 5.2
22 Ituzaingó Ituzaingó 167,824 6.1
23 Ezeiza Ezeiza 163,722 37.8
24 San Fernando San Fernando 163,240 8.0

List of cities in Greater Buenos Aires
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Greater Buenos Aires Metropolitan Rail Network.
Rank City District Partido 2001 Census[6]
1 Buenos Aires 2,776,138
2 Merlo Merlo 244,168
3 Quilmes Quilmes 230,810
4 Banfield Lomas de Zamora 223,898
5 José Clemente Paz José Clemente Paz 216,637
6 Lanús Lanús 212,152
7 Gregorio de Laferrère La Matanza 175,670
8 Hurlingham Hurlingham 174,165
9 Berazategui Berazategui 167,498
10 González Catán La Matanza 163,815
11 San Miguel San Miguel 157,532
12 Moreno Moreno 148,290
13 San Fernando San Fernando 145,165
14 Isidro Casanova La Matanza 131,981
15 Bernal Quilmes 130,790
16 Florencio Varela Florencio Varela 120,678
17 Avellaneda Avellaneda 112,980[7]
18 Lomas de Zamora Lomas de Zamora 111,897
19 Temperley Lomas de Zamora 111,160
20 Monte Grande Esteban Echeverría 109,644
21 San Justo La Matanza 105,274
22 Ituzaingó Ituzaingó 104,712
23 Castelar Morón 104,019
24 Rafael Castillo La Matanza 103,992
25 Libertad Merlo 100,324
26 Ramos Mejía La Matanza 97,076
27 Ezeiza Ezeiza 93,246
28 Morón Morón 92,725
29 Caseros Tres de Febrero 90,313
30 Parque San Martín Merlo 89,073
31 Burzaco Almirante Brown 86,113
32 Grand Bourg Malvinas Argentinas 85,189
33 Monte Chingolo Lanús 85,060
34 San Francisco Solano Quilmes
Almirante Brown		 81,707
35 Remedios de Escalada Lanús 81,465
36 La Tablada La Matanza 80,389
37 Ciudad Madero La Matanza 75,582
38 Olivos Vicente López 75,527
39 El Palomar Morón
Tres de Febrero		 74,757
40 Boulogne Sur Mer San Isidro 73,496
41 Ciudadela Tres de Febrero 73,155
42 Ezpeleta Quilmes 72,557
43 Ciudad Evita La Matanza 68,650
44 Bella Vista San Miguel 67,936
45 Wilde Avellaneda 65,881
46 Martínez San Isidro 65,859
47 Don Torcuato Tigre 64,867
48 Gerli Avellaneda
Lanús		 64,640
49 Ciudad Jardín Tres de Febrero 61,780
50 Sarandí Avellaneda 60,752
51 Villa Tesei Hurlingham 60,165
52 Florida Vicente López 59,844
53 Villa Domínico Avellaneda 58,824
54 Béccar San Isidro 58,811
55 Glew Almirante Brown 57,878
56 Rafael Calzada Almirante Brown 56,419
57 Mariano Acosta Merlo 54,081
58 Los Polvorines Malvinas Argentinas 53,354
59 Lomas del Mirador La Matanza 51,488
60 Villa Centenario Lomas de Zamora 49,737
61 William Morris Hurlingham 48,916
62 Longchamps Almirante Brown 47,622
63 San Isidro San Isidro 45,190
64 Villa Adelina Vicente López 44,587
65 San José Lomas de Zamora 44,437
66 Villa de Mayo Malvinas Argentinas 43,405
67 General Pacheco Tigre 43,287
68 Villa Fiorito Lomas de Zamora 42,904
69 Paso del Rey Moreno 41,775
70 Llavallol Lomas de Zamora 41,463
71 Tortuguitas Malvinas Argentinas
José C. Paz		 41,310
72 Claypole Almirante Brown 41,176
73 Valentín Alsina Lanús 41,155
74 Virreyes San Fernando 39,507
75 Victoria San Fernando 39,447
76 Pablo Nogués Malvinas Argentinas 38,470
77 Haedo Morón 38,068
78 San Antonio de Padua Merlo 37,775
79 Munro Vicente López 35,844
80 Villa Ballester San Martín 35,301
81 Pontevedra Merlo 33,515
82 Villa Udaondo Ituzaingó 31,490
83 Villa La Florida Quilmes 31,268
84 Tigre Tigre 31,106
85 San Martín San Martín 28,339
86 Adrogué Almirante Brown 28,265
87 Tristán Suárez Ezeiza 27,746
88 Muñiz San Miguel 26,221
89 Villa Martelli Vicente López 26,059
90 Villa Bosch Tres de Febrero 24,702
91 Villa Maipú San Martín 24,447
92 Vicente López Vicente López 24,078
93 Don Bosco Quilmes 20,876
94 Billinghurst San Martín 19,138
95 Martín Coronado Tres de Febrero 19,121
96 Villa Sarmiento Morón 17,737
97 Ranelagh Berazategui 15,262
98 Tapiales La Matanza 15,148
99 Aldo Bonzi La Matanza 13,410

[8][9]

  • Berazategui
  • Ciudad Evita (La Matanza Partido)
  • Florencio Varela
  • General San Martín
  • Monte Grande (Esteban Echeverría Partido)
  • Olivos (Vicente López Partido)
  • Quilmes
  • Tigre
  • Pan-American Expressway, north of Buenos Aires

References
  1. "2010 Census provisional results". Archived from the original on 2012-09-01. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
  2. "¿Qué significa AMBA, el área más estricta con la cuarentena en Argentina?". La Nación (in Spanish). June 18, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  3. Alicia Novick & Horacio Caride. "Ciudad versus área metropolitana. Notas para una historia del gran Buenos Aires".
  4. "¿Qué es el Gran Buenos Aires?" (PDF) (Press release) (in Spanish). National Institute of Statistics and Censuses. 2003-08-01. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-11. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
  5. "Provincia de Buenos Aires, 24 partidos del Gran Buenos Aires. Población total y variación intercensal absoluta y relativa por partido. Años 2001-2010" (PDF). INDEC.
  6. Archived 2007-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas y Censos
  7. Includes Dock Sud, Piñeiro and Crucecita
  8. INDEC eph Archived 2011-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
  9. INDEC est Archived 2014-04-09 at the Wayback Machine

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.
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