Greater Buenos Aires

**Greater Buenos Aires** (; GBA) is the urban agglomeration comprisin the autonomous ceety o Buenos Aires an the adjacent 24 *[[partido]]s* (municipalities) ower the Province o Buenos Aires. Thus, it does no constitute a single admeenistrative unit. The conurbation spreads sooth, wast an north o Buenos Aires ceety. Tae the east, the River Plate serves as a natural boondar.

Urban sprawl, especially atween 1945 an 1980, creatit a vast conurbation o 9,910,282 inhabitants in the 24 conurbated *partidos*, as of 2010, an a total o 12,801,365 includin the Ceety o Buenos Aires, a third o the total population o Argentinae. 

## History

The term *Gran Buenos Aires* ("Greater Buenos Aires") wis first offeecially uised in 1948, when Govrenor o Buenos Aires Province Domingo Mercante signed a bill delineatin as such a aurie coverin 14 coonties surroondin the Ceety o Buenos Aires. The term is relatit tae ither expressions that are no necessarily well-defined an aw: the "Buenos Aires' conurbation" (*Conurbano Bonaerense*), the "Greater Buenos Aires Agglomeration" (*Aglomerado Gran Buenos Aires*), an the "Metropolitan Aurie o Buenos Aires" (*Área Metropolitana Buenos Aires*, AMBA).

## Definition

The Naitional Institute o Statistics an Censuses (INDEC) haes defined Greater Buenos Aires.
Thare are three main groups athin the Buenos Aires' Conurbation. The first twa groups (24 *[[partido]]s*) comprise the tradeetional conurbation, or the "conurbation proper". The third group o sax *partidos* is in process o becomin fully integratit wi the rest.

;Fowerteen fully urbanisit *[[partido]]s*

* Avellaneda
* General San Martín
* Hurlingham
* Ituzaingó
* José C. Paz
* Lanús
* Lomas de Zamora
* Malvinas Argentinas
* Morón
* Quilmes
* San Isidro
* San Miguel
* Tres de Febrero
* Vicente López


;Ten *[[partido]]s* partially urbanized

*Almirante Brown
* Berazategui 
* Esteban Echeverría
* Ezeiza
* Florencio Varela
* La Matanza
* Merlo
* Moreno
* San Fernando
* Tigre


;Six *[[partido]]s* no yet conurbatit
As urbanization continues an the conurbation grows, sax addeetional pairtially urbanisit *partidos* nou are fully connectit wi the conurbation:

* Escobar
* General Rodríguez
* Marcos Paz
* Pilar
* Presidente Perón
* San Vicente


## Leet o ceeties in Greater Buenos Aires



## Gallery

File:Avenida_Mitre_2200_-_Avellaneda.JPG|Avellaneda
File:Centro_de_Berazategui.JPG|Berazategui
File:Ciudad Evita.JPG|Ciudad Evita (La Matanza Partido)
File:Peatonal Florencio Varela 1.jpg|Florencio Varela
File:Viacivitanovamarche.JPG|General San Martín
File:Plazoleta_Haedo_Este_2006-02-26.jpg|Haedo (Morón Partido)
File:Centro de Lanús (2).jpg|Lanús
File:Calle Italia - Lomas de Zamora.jpg|Lomas de Zamora
File:Iglesia Inmaculada concepción....jpg|Monte Grande (Esteban Echeverría Partido)
File:Provincia de Buenos Aires - Vicente López - Avenida Maipú.jpg|Olivos (Vicente López Partido)
File:Ramos_mejia_modernos_edificios.jpg|Ramos Mejía (La Matanza Partido)
File:San_Antonio_de_Padua_Iglesia_02.jpg|San Antonio de Padua (Merlo Partido)
File:25deMayo MartinyOmar.jpg|San Isidro
File:Parque junto al Museo de Arte Tigre.jpg|Tigre
File:Ruta_Panamericana_Buenos Aires_Florida.jpg|Pan-American Expresswey, north o Buenos Aires


## Further readins

* Buzai, G.D. and Marcos, M. (2012). "The social map of Greater Buenos Aires as empirical evidence of urban models". *Journal of Latin American Geography*. Volume 11 Number 1, pp. 67-78, DOI 10.1353/lag.2012.0012
* Keeling, D. (1996). *Buenos Aires: Global Dreams, Local Crisis*. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

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