Ensenada () is a city and port in
Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...
, Argentina, located around the
Ensenada de Barragán
Ensenada is a Spanish word meaning ''bay''.
Ensenada may also refer to:
Boats
*Ensenada 20, an American sailboat design
People
* N. Senada, a possible composer who is said to have collaborated with the rock band The Residents
* Marquis of En ...
. It has 31,031 inhabitants as per the . It is the capital of
Ensenada Partido, and
together with
Berisso Partido they are the main suburbs of the
Gran La Plata conurbation around the provincial capital of
La Plata
La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the , it has a population of 654,324 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 787,294 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from th ...
.
The port of Ensenada carries
grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and legum ...
and
beef exports, as well as industrial shipments. The volume traded has been recently growing at the expense of the
Buenos Aires port, located 60 km to the north-west.
As Buenos Aires city authorities are considering repurposing the port of Buenos Aires as a passenger-only facility, the volume at Ensenada (as well as that of the ports in
Campana and
Bahía Blanca
Bahía Blanca (; English: White Bay) is a city in the southwest of the provinces of Argentina, province of Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Atlantic Ocean, and is the seat of government of the Bahía Blanca Partido. It had 3 ...
) is slated to experience further growth.
References
*
Ensenada website Todo Ensenada Portal
Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Port settlements in Argentina
Populated places established in 1801
La Plata
Populated coastal places in Argentina
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