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The Port of Buenos Aires (Spanish: Puerto de Buenos Aires) is the principal maritime port in Argentina. Operated by the Administración General de Puertos (General Ports Administration), a state enterprise , it is the leading transshipment point for the foreign trade of Argentina .
Port of Quequén (Necochea, Buenos Aires Province) Port Belgrano (Puerto Belgrano, Argentine Navy Base, Buenos Aires Province) Puerto Rosales (Punta Alta, Buenos Aires Province) Port of Ingeniero White (Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province) Port Galván (Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province) Port of San Antonio Oeste (San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro)
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]
The Buenos Aires & Ensenada Port Railway (BA&EP) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Buenos Aires y Puerto de la Ensenada) was a British-owned company that built and operated a 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge railway network in Argentina towards the end of the nineteenth century.
[citation needed] In the first period numbers were generally low; of note are the colonias alemanas, first founded in the province of Buenos Aires in 1827. During the second period, Argentina experienced a boom in immigration due to massive economic expansion in the port of Buenos Aires and the wheat and beef producing Pampas. German immigrants ...
Immigrants' Hotel, Buenos Aires. Built in 1906, it could accommodate up to 4,000. The history of immigration to Argentina can be divided into several major stages: Spanish colonization between the 16th and 18th century, mostly male, [1] largely assimilated with the natives through a process called miscegenation. Although, not all of the current ...
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Immigrants arrived through the port of Buenos Aires and many stayed in the capital or within Buenos Aires Province and this still happens today. In 1895, immigrants accounted for 52% of the population in the capital, and 31% in the province of Buenos Aires (some provinces of the littoral , such as Santa Fe , had about 40%, and the Patagonian ...