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.
Greater Buenos Aires | |
|---|---|
| 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 |  Argentina |
| Core city |  Buenos Aires 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 |
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]
History
editThe 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.
Definition
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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.
- 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 (totaling 1,062,991 population of as the 2022 census)[1] are now fully connected with the conurbation:
- Escobar (256,449)
- General Rodríguez (143,211)
- Marcos Paz (67,154)
- Pilar (395,072)
- Presidente Perón (102,128)
- San Vicente (98,977)
| Rank | Partido | Seat | 2010 Census[8] | % growth from 2001 Census[8] |
2022 Census[1] | % growth from 2010 Census[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * | 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 |
List of cities in Greater Buenos Aires
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Gallery
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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
edit- ^ a b c d e f g "Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2022: Resultados provisionales" (PDF). INDEC.
- ^ "TelluBase—Argentina Fact Sheet (Tellusant Public Service Series)" (PDF). Tellusant. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
- ^ "¿Qué significa AMBA, el área más estricta con la cuarentena en Argentina?". La Nación (in Spanish). June 18, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
- ^ a b Tallarico, Valeria (2017). "Caracterización del AMBA" (in Spanish).
- ^ "Argentina: población total por regiones y provincias. Censos Nacionales de 1914 - 2001" (PDF). INDEC.
- ^ Alicia Novick & Horacio Caride (12 March 2020). "Ciudad versus área metropolitana. Notas para una historia del gran Buenos Aires".
- ^ "¿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.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ Novedades Archived 2007-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas y Censos
- ^ Includes Dock Sud, Piñeiro and Crucecita
- ^ INDEC eph Archived 2011-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ INDEC est Archived 2014-04-09 at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
edit- 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.