Time Out Buenos Aires (Time Out Guides)
Publisher: Time Out
Published: June 29, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780141013633
First sentence: Although the area stretching inland from the southern shore of the vast estuary of the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) was sparsely inhabited by native Indians long before European colonisation, for most portenos - as today's residents of Buenos Aires are known - the city's history begins in the 16th century, with the arrival of the Spanish (see p10 The forgotten peoples).