General
Description - Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Description:
The City of Buenos Aires is the capital and main city of the Republic
Argentina. It is located in the pampas, limiting with the county of Buenos
Aires, and the Río de la Plata (River of Silver), estuary of a system of
rivers that ends in the South Atlantic.
Population:
The city possesses a population of 3 millions that added with those of the
Great Buenos Aires, a group of districts outside of its limits, is elevated
to more than 12 millions, a third of the total population of the country.
The population is mostly white European, due to the great inmigration
current, but there is also a great number of Criollos (Creoles), mix of
native and Spanish, due to the migration that the city receives from the
counties and bordering countries. There are also other ethnic groups in
smaller quantity, as oriental.
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There is a historical tendency to people's
mixture, giving little importance to the race, religion or nationality.
Government: The country is a republic of federal character, with powers executive,
legislative and judicial, structure that repeats in each one of the counties.
The city is from 1994 an autonomous city, acquiring this jurisdiction, since
before it was a national territory and the national executive power
administered it directly.
Language: The language is the Castilian, although a lot of people have basic knowledge
of English.
Economy: The city that possesses a high unemployment index, lost its strong
industrial character with running of the years, moving its activity to the
tertiary sector, with a great diversification in the area of services and a
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Radio and television:
The dial is saturated so much in AM as in FM. In this last one, there are
radios that pass music preferably, and in spite of being many, most repeats
in their styles. The system used in television is the PAL, with a version
characteristic of the country, there are 5 channels of air and several
payable television systems, with great quantity of homes added.
Radio and T.V. live from
Buenos Aires here
Newspapers:
There are near 10 publications that go from the style of yellow press to the
market one and with the most varied ideologies. A publication, the Buenos
Aires Herald", is published in English.
Main Buenos Aires Newspapers here
Power Supply:
The current is of 220 volts and 50 hertz.
Schedules:
It is GMT -3. The city has great schedule width. All its commercial activity
extends from approximately 8 AM until 21. The banks and public offices
generally assist from 10 to 16. There is a lot of night activity in the
recreational area and the weekends they can also be all the shoppings and
many supermarkets open.
Hotels:
There is a lot of hotel offer thatgoes from the big hotels to housings of
about 10 dollars. Most is located in the central area or near areas to
downtown.
Urban layout:
The urban space is constituted starting from the layout in dame table
imposed to all the Spanish foundations, with a city that grew around the
main square. The whole rest of the city, in spite of its enormous dimension,
is guided toward this sector: The roads and the systems of transport leave
of this center toward all the places. To palliate the damages of this system,
they were created among the capital and the great Buenos Aires several
circumvallation roads that unite the diverse points. The layout of the
diverse neighborhoods generally respects the dame table structure, but it
doesn't sometimes coincide in its orientation with the original layout. This
is because many neighborhoods left building starting from the roads that
went by the place. The city is very modern, with all the advances of any big
First World city, but at the same time has characteristic problems of
underdeveloped cities, as deficiencies in infrastructure of many of its
services, of the systems of control of the natural phenomenons, as the
system of pluvial drainage, and in the transport. All this is due to that
the improvement of these systems, some of which responded appropriately in
some moment, many times it didn't accompany to the growth of the city. With
regard to the history, the city grew vastly in the last two centuries, what
can turns comparing it with other cities of the world, and many times this
growth was not accompanied by a preservation character, very present in
these days. However, if one observes attentively, they can still be seen in
her many things that can be seen at first sight in any historically
important city of Latin America.
Dangers and nuisances:
The saturated traffic represents a great nuisance to move in the city.
Lately, the growing social inequality, made grow the criminal indexes.
However it continues being very safe in comparison with other big cities,
and if one has caution, it can travel her peacefully at any hour.
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