Ensenada () is a city and port in
Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires, officially the Buenos Aires Province, is the largest and most populous Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of the province an ...
, Argentina, located around the
Ensenada de Barragán. 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 2022 Argentina census, census, the La Plata Partido, Partido has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabit ...
.
The port of Ensenada carries
grain
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and
beef
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exports, as well as industrial shipments. The volume traded has been recently growing at the expense of the
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...
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''), colloquially referred to by its own local inhabitants as simply Bahía, is a city in the Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires province of Argentina, centered on the northwestern end of the eponymous Blanc ...
) is slated to experience further growth.
References
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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
Cities in Argentina
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