The city of
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South Am ...
is formally divided in 48 ''
barrio
''Barrio'' () is a Spanish word that means " quarter" or " neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional (e.g. residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), social, a ...
s'' (neighborhoods), grouped into 15 ''comunas'' (communes), which are defined as "units of decentralized political and administrative management governed by designated residents".
The city proper (excluding the suburbs and exurbs that form
Greater Buenos Aires), had 2,891,082 inhabitants as of 2010.
Overview
Sanitary regions
The borders of the sanitary regions are aligned with the borders of the communes.
* Region 1: C1, C3, C4
* Region 2: C7, C8, C9
* Region 3: C5, C6, C10, C11, C15
* Region 4: C2, C12, C13, C14
References
External links
Map of Buenos Aires' neighborhoods and communes
{{Portal, Argentina
Geography of Buenos Aires