Time Out Buenos Aires (Time Out Guides)
Edition: Third edition edition
Publisher: Time Out
Published: June 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781904978985
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Travel Guides; Travel; Travel - Foreign; South America; Travel / South America
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).