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Buenos Aires, [d] officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, [e] is the 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− global city , according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. [ 14 ]
Because the City of Buenos Aires is not a province, but rather enjoys a regime of autonomy guaranteed by the National Constitution, there are divergences, both in the political and legal world, about the scope and limits of that autonomy. It is the National Congress that is responsible for specifying the limitations of Buenos Aires autonomy.
Teatro Politeama (Buenos Aires) (theatre) opens. [15] Rivadavia Library founded. [6] 1880 - City separated from Buenos Aires Province; Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires established. 1882 Once railway station opens. National Theatre built. [8] South American Continental Exhibition held. [16] 1887 Belgrano and Flores become part of city. [1]
Because the City of Buenos Aires is not a province, but rather enjoys a regime of autonomy guaranteed by the National Constitution, there are divergences, both in the political and legal world, about the scope and limits of that autonomy. It is the National Congress that is responsible for specifying the limitations of Buenos Aires autonomy.
The 1994 reform of the Argentine Constitution led to the rescission of the President's right to appoint the Mayor of Buenos Aires, and with the election of Fernando de la Rúa as the city's first directly elected mayor on June 30, 1996, an assembly was chosen for the purpose of drafting a new municipal constitution.
The comunas separately coloured, showing neighbourhood divisions. The city of Buenos Aires is administratively divided into fifteen comunas, [1] unlike the Province of Buenos Aires, which is subdivided into partidos, or the rest of Argentina, in which the second-order administrative division is departamentos. [2]
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The inhabitants of the city are called "porteños" ("people of the port") to acknowledge the centrality of the port of Buenos Aires in the development of the city and the nation. Since Buenos Aires's federalisation in 1880, the city proper includes the former towns of Belgrano and Flores; the resulting city was separated from Buenos Aires province.