Buenos Aires Province

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Coordinates: 33°42′S 61°00′W / -33.7, -61
Buenos Aires Province
Provincia de Buenos Aires
Province
Flag
Coat of arms
Divisions 134 partidos
Coordinates 33°42′S 61°00′W / -33.7, -61
Capital La Plata
Area 307,571 km² (118,754 sq mi)
Population 14,917,940 (2007)
Density 49 /km² (127 /sq mi)
Governor Daniel Scioli (PJ)
 - Senators Eric Calcagno, José Pampuro, Hilda de Duhalde
ISO 3166-2 code AR-B
Demonym bonaerense
Website: http://www.gba.gov.ar

Buenos Aires Province (IPA: [ˈbwenos ˈaiɾes], Spanish: Provincia de Buenos Aires) is the most populated province of Argentina. The city of Buenos Aires, located next to provincial territory, is an autonomous city and not part of the province. The province has a population of 13,827,203 (2001) and its capital is La Plata (694,253 inhabitants), 56 kilometers south of the city of Buenos Aires.

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[edit] History

The aboriginals that inhabited the provinces before the arrival of the Spanish colonisation were the Pampas Indians and other subgroups such as the Querandíes, but their culture has been lost for they have been almost exterminated, and the few survivors joined other tribes.

Pedro de Mendoza founded Santa María del Buen Ayre, and even though the first contact with the aboriginals was peaceful, it soon became hostile. The city was evacuated in 1541. Juan de Garay re-founded it in 1580 as Santísima Trinidad y Puerto Santa María de los Buenos Aires.

Amidst ongoing conflict with the aboriginals, the cattle farms extended from Buenos Aires, whose port was always the centre of the economy of the territory. Following the creation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata at the end of the 18th century, the export of meat, leather and their derivatives through the port of Buenos Aires was the basis of the economic development of the region.

Jesuits unsuccessfully tried to peacefully assimilate the aboriginals into the European culture brought by the Spanish conquistadores. A certain balance was found at the end of the 18th century, when the Salado River became the limit between both civilizations, even though the frequent malones aboriginal attacks to border settlements. The end to such situation came as late as 1879 with the Conquest of the Desert (Conquista del Desierto) in which the aboriginals where almost completely exterminated.

After the independence from Spain in 1816, Buenos Aires Province and the Buenos Aires city were in constant confrontation with the other provinces because of the federal system that was managed at Buenos Aires. This period of internal instability lasted for decades.

La Plata was founded in 1882 with the purpose of becoming the province's capital. By that time, the province had around half a million inhabitants.

[edit] Geography

The Buenos Aires province has an area of 307,571 km² and its neighbouring provinces clockwise from the southwest are Rio Negro, La Pampa, Córdoba, Santa Fe and Entre Rios. To the east is the Atlantic Ocean. It is also the largest province of Argentina.

The landscape is mainly flat, with two low mountain ranges; Sierra de la Ventana (near Bahía Blanca) and Sierra de Tandil (Tandil). The highest point is Cerro Tres Picos (1.239 m amsl; 38° 8' S, 61° 58' W) and the longest river is Río Salado (700 km).

As part of The Pampas the weather of the province is strongly influenced by the ocean, with hot summers and temperate winters. Humidity is high and precipitations are abundant and distributed over the year. The Western and Southwestern regions are dryer.

[edit] Climate

The weather of the Buenos Aires Province is temperate with average temperatures between 13 and 17 °C. At the coast, the wind from sea cools down the nights during the summer and keeps a high humidity during the winters.

Precipitations vary from 500 mm to 1,000 mm per year on the coast, and due to the flatness of the terrain can produce flooding.

The geography of the province is crossed by occasional west Pampero winds. The southern Sudestada produces storms and temperature drops, most notably the Santa Rosa storm[1], which takes place every year almost exactly on August 30.

[edit] Economy

Even though cattle is historically the main animal husbandry activity, Buenos Aires is also the top producer of sheep, pork, and chicken meat of the country. Equally important is the Dairy industry.

Another activity of the province that in the last decades has become even more important than cattle is agriculture. The most important crops include soybean, maize, wheat, sunflower. These are also grown as Oilseeds.

The industry of the province is diverse. Chemical, metallurgic, auto-mechanics, textile and food industry are the most notable, and signify the 50% of the country's industrial production.

[edit] Tourism

Tourists, mainly from Buenos Aires, visit the Atlantic coast. There are many cities and town along the coast line that starts some 250 kilometres from Buenos Aires after the Samborombón Bay. Among them, the biggest and most important is Mar del Plata, followed by Pinamar, Villa Gesell, Miramar and Necochea.

Other destinations include the Sierras of Tandil, Tigre and the many islands of the Río de la Plata delta, Isla Martín García, the Chascomús Lagoon, and the La Plata city.

Lately agritourism in estancias ranches has become somewhat popular for foreigners visiting the province.

[edit] Political division

Political division of the province and its capital La Plata (red dot)
Political division of the province and its capital La Plata (red dot)

The province is divided in 134 administrative sections called "partidos" (administrative centres in brackets).

  1. Adolfo Alsina (Carhué)
  2. Adolfo Gonzales Chaves (Adolfo Gonzales Chaves)
  3. Alberti (Alberti)
  4. Almirante Brown (Adrogué)
  5. Arrecifes (Arrecifes)
  6. Avellaneda (Avellaneda)
  7. Ayacucho (Ayacucho)
  8. Azul (Azul)
  9. Bahía Blanca (Bahía Blanca)
  10. Balcarce (Balcarce)
  11. Baradero (Baradero)
  12. Benito Juárez (Benito Juárez)
  13. Berazategui (Berazategui)
  14. Berisso (Berisso)
  15. Bolívar (San Carlos de Bolívar)
  16. Bragado (Bragado)
  17. Brandsen (Brandsen)
  18. Campana (Campana)
  19. Cañuelas (Cañuelas)
  20. Capitán Sarmiento (Capitán Sarmiento)
  21. Carlos Casares (Carlos Casares)
  22. Carlos Tejedor (Carlos Tejedor)
  23. Carmen de Areco (Carmen de Areco)
  24. Castelli (Castelli)
  25. Chacabuco (Chacabuco, Buenos Aires)
  26. Chascomús (Chascomús)
  27. Chivilcoy (Chivilcoy)
  28. Colón (Colón)
  29. Coronel Dorrego (Coronel Dorrego)
  30. Coronel Pringles (Coronel Pringles)
  31. Coronel Rosales (Punta Alta)
  32. Coronel Suárez (Coronel Suárez)
  33. Daireaux (Daireaux)
  34. Dolores (Dolores)
  35. Ensenada (Ensenada)
  36. Escobar (Belén de Escobar)
  37. Esteban Echeverría (Monte Grande)
  38. Exaltación de la Cruz (Capilla del Señor)
  39. Ezeiza (Ezeiza)
  40. Florencio Varela (Florencio Varela)
  41. Florentino Ameghino (Florentino Ameghino)
  42. General Alvarado (Miramar)
  43. General Alvear (General Alvear)
  44. General Arenales (General Arenales)
  45. General Belgrano (General Belgrano)
  46. General Guido (General Guido)
  47. General La Madrid (General La Madrid)
  48. General Las Heras (General Las Heras)
  49. General Lavalle (General Lavalle)
  50. General Madariaga (General Juan Madariaga)
  51. General Paz (Ranchos)
  52. General Pinto (General Pinto)
  53. General Pueyrredón (Mar del Plata)
  54. General Rodríguez (General Rodríguez)
  55. General San Martín (General San Martín)
  56. General Viamonte (General Viamonte)
  57. General Villegas (General Villegas)
  58. Guaminí (Guaminí)
  59. Hipólito Yrigoyen (Henderson)
  60. Hurlingham (Hurlingham)
  61. Ituzaingo (Ituzaingo)
  62. José C. Paz (José C. Paz)
  63. Junín (Junín)
  64. La Costa (Mar del Tuyú)
  65. La Matanza (San Justo)
  66. La Plata (La Plata)
  67. Lanús (Lanús)
  68. Laprida (Laprida)
  69. Las Flores (Las Flores)
  70. Leandro N. Alem (Vedia)
  71. Lincoln (Lincoln)
  72. Lobería (Lobería)
  73. Lobos (Lobos)
  74. Lomas de Zamora (Lomas de Zamora)
  75. Luján (Luján)
  76. Magdalena (Magdalena)
  77. Maipú (Maipú)
  78. Malvinas Argentinas (Los Polvorines)
  79. Mar Chiquita (Coronel Vidal)
  80. Marcos Paz (Marcos Paz)
  81. Mercedes (Mercedes)
  82. Merlo (Merlo)
  83. Monte (San Miguel del Monte)
  84. Monte Hermoso (Monte Hermoso)
  85. Moreno (Moreno)
  86. Morón (Morón)
  87. Navarro (Navarro)
  88. Necochea (Necochea)
  89. Nueve de Julio (Nueve de Julio)
  90. Olavarría (Olavarría)
  91. Patagones (Carmen de Patagones)
  92. Pehuajó (Pehuajó)
  93. Pellegrini (Pellegrini)
  94. Pergamino (Pergamino)
  95. Pila (Pila)
  96. Pilar (Pilar)
  97. Pinamar (Pinamar)
  98. Presidente Perón (Guernica)
  99. Puán (Puán)
  100. Punta Indio (Verónica)
  101. Quilmes (Quilmes)
  102. Ramallo (Ramallo)
  103. Rauch (Rauch)
  104. Rivadavia (América)
  105. Rojas (Rojas)
  106. Roque Pérez (Roque Pérez)
  107. Saavedra (Pigüé)
  108. Saladillo (Saladillo)
  109. Salto (Salto)
  110. Salliqueló (Salliqueló)
  111. San Andrés de Giles (San Andrés de Giles)
  112. San Antonio de Areco (San Antonio de Areco)
  113. San Cayetano (San Cayetano)
  114. San Fernando (San Fernando)
  115. San Isidro (San Isidro)
  116. San Miguel (San Miguel)
  117. San Nicolás (San Nicolás de los Arroyos)
  118. San Pedro (San Pedro)
  119. San Vicente (San Vicente)
  120. Suipacha (Suipacha)
  121. Tandil (Tandil)
  122. Tapalqué (Tapalqué)
  123. Tigre (Tigre)
  124. Tordillo (General Conesa)
  125. Tornquist (Tornquist)
  126. Trenque Lauquen (Trenque Lauquen)
  127. Tres Arroyos (Tres Arroyos)
  128. Tres de Febrero (Caseros)
  129. Tres Lomas (Tres Lomas)
  130. Veinticinco de Mayo (Veinticinco de Mayo)
  131. Vicente López (Olivos)
  132. Villa Gesell (Villa Gesell)
  133. Villarino (Médanos)
  134. Zárate (Zárate)

[edit] See also

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