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The city's resident labor force of 1.2 million in 2001 was mostly employed in the services sector, particularly social services (25%), commerce and tourism (20%) and business and financial services (17%); despite the city's role as Argentina's capital, public administration employed only 6%. Manufacturing still employed 10%. [79]
Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system .
This is a list of the localities of Argentina of 45,000 to 150,000 inhabitants ordered by amount of population according to the data of the 2001 INDEC Census. San Nicolás de los Arroyos (Buenos Aires) 133,602; San Rafael (Mendoza) 104,782; Rafael Castillo (Buenos Aires) 103,992; Trelew (Chubut) 103,305; Santa Rosa (La Pampa) 101,987; Tandil ...
La Plata (Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈplata]) is the capital city of Buenos Aires province, Argentina.According to the 2022 census, the Partido has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabitants. [2]
Argentina is divided into twenty-three federated states called provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular provincia) and one called the autonomous city (ciudad autónoma) of Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the republic (Spanish: Capital Federal) as decided by the Argentine Congress. [1]
1542 – City attacked by indigenous people and settlers abandon it, moving to Asunción. 1580 – Second foundation of the city around fort built by Juan de Garay. [1] 1591 – Dominican monastery established. [2] 1604 – San Francisco monastery established. [2] 1611 – Men's Hospital founded. [2] 1620 – Town becomes capital of Buenos ...
It was an unusually scorching winter day in Buenos Aires Tuesday, with thermometers in Argentina's capital crossing the 30-degree Celsius mark (86 degrees Fahrenheit), the hottest start of August ...
Argentina – country in South America, the continent's second largest by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city , Buenos Aires. It is the eighth -largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations .