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Buenos Aires (/ ˌ b w eɪ n ə s ˈ ɛər iː z / or /-ˈ aɪ r ɪ s /; [12] Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbwenos ˈajɾes] ⓘ) [13] [a] is the capital city of Argentina, on the western shore of the Río de la Plata on South America's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" is Spanish for "fair winds" or "good airs".
The federalization of Buenos Aires is, in Argentine law, the process of assigning federal status to a territory with the purpose of making that territory the national capital. The federalization of Buenos Aires politically separated the city from the Buenos Aires Province to put it under direct control of the national government.
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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 .
After seceding for a decade, Buenos Aires Province accepted the 1853 Constitution of Argentina in 1861, and its capital city was made a federal territory in 1880. [ 2 ] A law from 1862 designated as national territories those territories under federal control but outside the frontiers of the provinces.
In the 1994 constitution, the city was given autonomy, hence its current formal name: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires), sometimes abbreviated as CABA. To differentiate the city from the province of the same name, it is common to refer to the city as Capital Federal ("Federal Capital").
The Buenos Aires city, previously in the Federal District of Argentina.In 1996, under the 1994 reform of the Argentine Constitution, the city gained autonomous city status, changed its formal name to Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, and held its first mayoral elections.
The Obelisco de Buenos Aires (Obelisk of Buenos Aires) is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires. Located in the Plaza de la República in the intersection of avenues Corrientes and 9 de Julio , it was erected in 1936 to commemorate the quadricentennial of the first foundation of the city .