General Description - Buenos Aires, Argentina

Description: The City of Buenos Aires is the capital and main city of the Republic Argentina. It is located in the pampas, limiting with the county of Buenos Aires, and the Río de la Plata (River of Silver), estuary of a system of rivers that ends in the South Atlantic.

Population: The city possesses a population of 3 millions that added with those of the Great Buenos Aires, a group of districts outside of its limits, is elevated to more than 12 millions, a third of the total population of the country. The population is mostly white European, due to the great inmigration current, but there is also a great number of Criollos (Creoles), mix of native and Spanish, due to the migration that the city receives from the counties and bordering countries. There are also other ethnic groups in smaller quantity, as oriental.
 

Economy: The city that possesses a high unemployment index, lost its strong industrial character with running of the years, moving its activity to the tertiary sector, with a great diversification in the area of services and a lot of administrative employment.

Radio and television: The dial is saturated so much in AM as in FM. In this last one, there are radios that pass music preferably, and in spite of being many, most repeats in their styles. The system used in television is the PAL, with a version characteristic of the country, there are 5 channels of air and several payable television systems, with great quantity of homes added. Radio and T.V. live from Buenos Aires here

Newspapers: There are near 10 publications that go from the style of yellow press to the market one and with the most varied ideologies. A publication, the Buenos Aires Herald", is published in English. Main Buenos Aires Newspapers here

Power Supply: The current is of 220 volts and 50 hertz.

Schedules: It is GMT -3. The city has great schedule width. All its commercial activity extends from approximately 8 AM until 21. The banks and public offices generally assist from 10 to 16. There is a lot of night activity in the recreational area and the weekends they can also be all the shoppings and many supermarkets open.

Hotels: There is a lot of hotel offer thatgoes from the big hotels to housings of about 10 dollars. Most is located in the central area or near areas to downtown.

Urban layout: The urban space is constituted starting from the layout in dame table imposed to all the Spanish foundations, with a city that grew around the main square. The whole rest of the city, in spite of its enormous dimension, is guided toward this sector: The roads and the systems of transport leave of this center toward all the places. To palliate the damages of this system, they were created among the capital and the great Buenos Aires several circumvallation roads that unite the diverse points. The layout of the diverse neighborhoods generally respects the dame table structure, but it doesn't sometimes coincide in its orientation with the original layout. This is because many neighborhoods left building starting from the roads that went by the place.

The city is very modern, with all the advances of any big First World city, but at the same time has characteristic problems of underdeveloped cities, as deficiencies in infrastructure of many of its services, of the systems of control of the natural phenomenons, as the system of pluvial drainage, and in the transport. All this is due to that the improvement of these systems, some of which responded appropriately in some moment, many times it didn't accompany to the growth of the city. With regard to the history, the city grew vastly in the last two centuries, what can turns comparing it with other cities of the world, and many times this growth was not accompanied by a preservation character, very present in these days. However, if one observes attentively, they can still be seen in her many things that can be seen at first sight in any historically important city of Latin America.

Dangers and nuisances: The saturated traffic represents a great nuisance to move in the city. Lately, the growing social inequality, made grow the criminal indexes. However it continues being very safe in comparison with other big cities, and if one has caution, it can travel her peacefully at any hour.