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Greater Buenos Aires

Urban agglomeration in Argentina

Summary

Urban agglomeration in Argentina

Field	Value
name	Greater Buenos Aires
settlement_type	Metropolitan area
official_name	Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area
Área Metropolitana de Buenos Airess
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image1	Puerto_Madero_-_Puente_de_la_mujer_(44673627614).jpg
caption1	Skyline of Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires
image2	J34 894 Tigre, Club de Regatas La Marina.jpg
caption2	La Marina Rowing Club in Tigre
image3	Logia Giuseppe Mazzini, Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires.jpg
caption3	Masonic lodge in Lomas de Zamora - the second-most populous suburb
image4	Aeropuerto Internacional Ezeiza.jpg
caption4	Ezeiza International Airport
image5	Puerto olivos barcos.jpg
caption5	Olivos
image6	RamosMejia-Aerial.jpg
caption6	Aerial view of Ramos Mejía in La Matanza Partido - the most populous suburb
image_map	Mapa_de_la_Gran_Buenos_Aires.svg
map_caption	Map of Greater Buenos Aires
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
24 official partidos of Buenos Aires
Partidos sometimes included
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Argentina
seat_type	Core city
seat	Buenos Aires Buenos Aires
population_total	10,865,182 (24 partidos)

population_metro	13,985,794
(including the Federal District and 24 partidos)
16,484,772
(including 15 additional partidos - which also includes Greater La Plata's 938,287)
area_metro_km2	3,833
population_as_of	INDEC 2022 Census
population_density_metro_km2	3926.1
demographics_type1	GDP
demographics1_title1	Metro
demographics1_info1	$235.6 billion (2023)
demographics1_title2	Per capita
demographics1_info2	$15,200 (2023)

Área Metropolitana de Buenos Airess Autonomous City of Buenos Aires 24 official partidos of Buenos Aires Partidos sometimes included

(including the Federal District and 24 partidos)

16,484,772 (including 15 additional partidos - which also includes Greater La Plata's 938,287)

Greater Buenos Aires (, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (, AMBA), refers to the urban agglomeration comprising the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), and the adjacent 24 partidos (counties) in the Province of Buenos Aires (together known as "Conurbano"). Thus, it does not constitute a single administrative unit. The conurbation spreads south, west and north of Buenos Aires city. To the east, the River Plate serves as a natural boundary.

The term is also related to other expressions that are not necessarily well defined: the "Buenos Aires conurbation" (Conurbano Bonaerense); the "Greater Buenos Aires Agglomeration" (Aglomerado Gran Buenos Aires); and the "Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires" (Área Metropolitana Buenos Aires, AMBA).

Colloquially, Argentines refer to the Conurbano Bonaerense as the set of 30 counties that surround the City of Buenos Aires and which are mostly populated by working-class or middle-class communities.

History

The term Gran Buenos Aires ("Greater Buenos Aires") was first officially used in 1948, when Domingo Mercante, the Governor of Buenos Aires Province, signed a bill delineating as such an area covering 14 municipalities surrounding the City of Buenos Aires.

Urban sprawl, especially between 1945 and 1980, created a vast metropolitan area of over 3,800 km² (1,500 mi²) – or 19 times the area of Buenos Aires proper. The 24 suburban partidos (counties) grew more than sixfold in population between the 1947 and 2022 censuses – or nearly 2.5% annually, compared to 1.4% for the nation as a whole.

While annual growth for the suburban area slowed to 0.8% between 2010 and 2022, the 12 million inhabitants in the entire 30-county area - plus the City of Buenos Aires (3 million) - account for a third of the total population of Argentina and generate nearly half (48%) of the country's GDP.

As urbanization progressed and the metro area grew in both area and density, six additional partially urbanized partidos (totaling 1,062,991 population as of the 2022 census)

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Definition

Population pyramid of Greater Buenos Aires in 2022

Satellite image of Greater Buenos Aires at night

Buenos Aires, city, and vicinity, [[Landsat 8]] satellite image

The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) has defined Greater Buenos Aires.{{cite press release |access-date = 2008-06-28 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080911010307/http://www.indec.mecon.ar/nuevaweb/cuadros/1/folleto%20gba.pdf |archive-date = 2008-09-11

There are three main groups within the Buenos Aires conurbation. The first two groups (24 partidos) comprise the traditional conurbation - or the "conurbation proper" - while the third group of six partidos is in the process of becoming fully integrated with the rest.

;Fourteen fully urbanized partidos

Avellaneda
General San Martín
Hurlingham
Ituzaingó
José C. Paz
Lanús
Lomas de Zamora
Malvinas Argentinas
Morón
Quilmes
San Isidro
San Miguel
Tres de Febrero
Vicente López ;Ten partidos partially urbanized
Almirante Brown
Berazategui
Esteban Echeverría
Ezeiza
Florencio Varela
La Matanza
Merlo
Moreno
San Fernando
Tigre ;Six partidos not yet conurbated The six additional partially urbanized partidos added to the metropolitan area in 2006 by Law 13473 (which also adds Greater La Plata's 938,287 to the total) are:
Escobar (256,449)
General Rodríguez (143,211)
Marcos Paz (67,154)
Pilar (395,072)
Presidente Perón (102,128)
San Vicente (98,977)

The 2022 Census later included, for statistical purposes, these six outlying partidos (totaling 497,700):

Brandsen (33,026)
Campana (110,726)
Cañuelas (71,149)
Exaltación de la Cruz (39,347)
Luján (111,365)
Zárate (132,087)

List of ''partidos''

Rank	Partido	Seat	2010 Census	% growth from
2001 Census	2022 Census	% growth from
2010 Census
*	Buenos Aires		2,890,151	4.1	3,120,612	8.0
1	La Matanza	San Justo	1,775,816	41.5	1,837,774	3.5
2	Lomas de Zamora	Lomas de Zamora	616,279	4.2	694,330	12.7
3	Quilmes	Quilmes	582,943	12.4	636,026	9.1
4	Almirante Brown	Adrogué	552,902	7.2	585,852	6.0
5	Merlo	Merlo	528,494	12.4	580,806	9.9
6	Moreno	Moreno	452,505	18.9	574,374	26.9
7	Florencio Varela	Florencio Varela	426,005	22.1	497,818	16.9
8	Lanús	Lanús	459,263	1.4	462,051	0.6
9	General San Martín	San Martín	414,196	2.8	450,335	8.7
10	Tigre	Tigre	376,381	25.0	447,785	19.0
11	Avellaneda	Avellaneda	342,677	4.2	370,939	8.2
12	Tres de Febrero	Caseros	340,071	1.1	366,377	7.7
13	Berazategui	Berazategui	324,344	12.6	360,582	11.2
14	Malvinas Argentinas	Los Polvorines	322,375	10.9	351,788	9.1
15	Esteban Echeverría	Monte Grande	300,959	23.4	339,030	12.6
16	Morón	Morón	321,109	3.8	334,178	4.1
17	San Miguel	San Miguel	276,190	9.1	326,215	18.1
18	José C. Paz	José C. Paz	265,981	15.5	323,918	21.8
19	San Isidro	San Isidro	292,878	0.5	298,777	2.0
20	Vicente López	Olivos	269,420	-1.7	283,510	5.2
21	Ezeiza	Ezeiza	163,722	37.8	203,283	24.2
22	Hurlingham	Hurlingham	181,241	5.2	187,122	3.2
23	Ituzaingó	Ituzaingó	167,824	6.1	179,788	7.1
24	San Fernando	San Fernando	163,240	8.0	172,524	5.7

List of cities

Rank	City	District	Partido	2001 Census
1	Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires		2,776,138
2	Merlo	Buenos Aires Province	Merlo	244,168
3	Quilmes	Buenos Aires Province	Quilmes	230,810
4	Banfield	Buenos Aires Province	Lomas de Zamora	223,898
5	José Clemente Paz	Buenos Aires Province	José Clemente Paz	216,637
6	Lanús	Buenos Aires Province	Lanús	212,152
7	Gregorio de Laferrère	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	175,670
8	Hurlingham	Buenos Aires Province	Hurlingham	174,165
9	Berazategui	Buenos Aires Province	Berazategui	167,498
10	González Catán	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	163,815
11	San Miguel	Buenos Aires Province	San Miguel	157,532
12	Moreno	Buenos Aires Province	Moreno	148,290
13	San Fernando	Buenos Aires Province	San Fernando	145,165
14	Isidro Casanova	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	131,981
15	Bernal	Buenos Aires Province	Quilmes	130,790
16	Florencio Varela	Buenos Aires Province	Florencio Varela	120,678
17	Avellaneda	Buenos Aires Province	Avellaneda	112,980
18	Lomas de Zamora	Buenos Aires Province	Lomas de Zamora	111,897
19	Temperley	Buenos Aires Province	Lomas de Zamora	111,160
20	Monte Grande	Buenos Aires Province	Esteban Echeverría	109,644
21	San Justo	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	105,274
22	Ituzaingó	Buenos Aires Province	Ituzaingó	104,712
23	Castelar	Buenos Aires Province	Morón	104,019
24	Rafael Castillo	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	103,992
25	Libertad	Buenos Aires Province	Merlo	100,324
26	Ramos Mejía	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	97,076
27	Ezeiza	Buenos Aires Province	Ezeiza	93,246
28	Morón	Buenos Aires Province	Morón	92,725
29	Caseros	Buenos Aires Province	Tres de Febrero	90,313
30	Parque San Martín	Buenos Aires Province	Merlo	89,073
31	Burzaco	Buenos Aires Province	Almirante Brown	86,113
32	Grand Bourg	Buenos Aires Province	Malvinas Argentinas	85,189
33	Monte Chingolo	Buenos Aires Province	Lanús	85,060
34	San Francisco Solano	Buenos Aires Province	Quilmes
Almirante Brown	81,707
35	Remedios de Escalada	Buenos Aires Province	Lanús	81,465
36	La Tablada	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	80,389
37	Ciudad Madero	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	75,582
38	Olivos	Buenos Aires Province	Vicente López	75,527
39	El Palomar	Buenos Aires Province	Morón
Tres de Febrero	74,757
40	Boulogne Sur Mer	Buenos Aires Province	San Isidro	73,496
41	Ciudadela	Buenos Aires Province	Tres de Febrero	73,155
42	Ezpeleta	Buenos Aires Province	Quilmes	72,557
43	Ciudad Evita	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	68,650
44	Bella Vista	Buenos Aires Province	San Miguel	67,936
45	Wilde	Buenos Aires Province	Avellaneda	65,881
46	Martínez	Buenos Aires Province	San Isidro	65,859
47	Don Torcuato	Buenos Aires Province	Tigre	64,867
48	Gerli	Buenos Aires Province	Avellaneda
Lanús	64,640
49	Ciudad Jardín	Buenos Aires Province	Tres de Febrero	61,780
50	Sarandí	Buenos Aires Province	Avellaneda	60,752
51	Villa Tesei	Buenos Aires Province	Hurlingham	60,165
52	Florida	Buenos Aires Province	Vicente López	59,844
53	Villa Domínico	Buenos Aires Province	Avellaneda	58,824
54	Béccar	Buenos Aires Province	San Isidro	58,811
55	Glew	Buenos Aires Province	Almirante Brown	57,878
56	Rafael Calzada	Buenos Aires Province	Almirante Brown	56,419
57	Mariano Acosta	Buenos Aires Province	Merlo	54,081
58	Los Polvorines	Buenos Aires Province	Malvinas Argentinas	53,354
59	Lomas del Mirador	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	51,488
60	Villa Centenario	Buenos Aires Province	Lomas de Zamora	49,737
61	William Morris	Buenos Aires Province	Hurlingham	48,916
62	Longchamps	Buenos Aires Province	Almirante Brown	47,622
63	San Isidro	Buenos Aires Province	San Isidro	45,190
64	Villa Adelina	Buenos Aires Province	Vicente López	44,587
65	San José	Buenos Aires Province	Lomas de Zamora	44,437
66	Villa de Mayo	Buenos Aires Province	Malvinas Argentinas	43,405
67	General Pacheco	Buenos Aires Province	Tigre	43,287
68	Villa Fiorito	Buenos Aires Province	Lomas de Zamora	42,904
69	Paso del Rey	Buenos Aires Province	Moreno	41,775
70	Llavallol	Buenos Aires Province	Lomas de Zamora	41,463
71	Tortuguitas	Buenos Aires Province	Malvinas Argentinas
José C. Paz	41,310
72	Claypole	Buenos Aires Province	Almirante Brown	41,176
73	Valentín Alsina	Buenos Aires Province	Lanús	41,155
74	Virreyes	Buenos Aires Province	San Fernando	39,507
75	Victoria	Buenos Aires Province	San Fernando	39,447
76	Pablo Nogués	Buenos Aires Province	Malvinas Argentinas	38,470
77	Haedo	Buenos Aires Province	Morón	38,068
78	San Antonio de Padua	Buenos Aires Province	Merlo	37,775
79	Munro	Buenos Aires Province	Vicente López	35,844
80	Villa Ballester	Buenos Aires Province	San Martín	35,301
81	Pontevedra	Buenos Aires Province	Merlo	33,515
82	Villa Udaondo	Buenos Aires Province	Ituzaingó	31,490
83	Villa La Florida	Buenos Aires Province	Quilmes	31,268
84	Tigre	Buenos Aires Province	Tigre	31,106
85	San Martín	Buenos Aires Province	San Martín	28,339
86	Adrogué	Buenos Aires Province	Almirante Brown	28,265
87	Tristán Suárez	Buenos Aires Province	Ezeiza	27,746
88	Muñiz	Buenos Aires Province	San Miguel	26,221
89	Villa Martelli	Buenos Aires Province	Vicente López	26,059
90	Villa Bosch	Buenos Aires Province	Tres de Febrero	24,702
91	Villa Maipú	Buenos Aires Province	San Martín	24,447
92	Vicente López	Buenos Aires Province	Vicente López	24,078
93	Don Bosco	Buenos Aires Province	Quilmes	20,876
94	Billinghurst	Buenos Aires Province	San Martín	19,138
95	Martín Coronado	Buenos Aires Province	Tres de Febrero	19,121
96	Villa Sarmiento	Buenos Aires Province	Morón	17,737
97	Ranelagh	Buenos Aires Province	Berazategui	15,262
98	Tapiales	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	15,148
99	Aldo Bonzi	Buenos Aires Province	La Matanza	13,410

Gallery

File:Centro_de_Berazategui.JPG|Berazategui File:Ciudad Evita.JPG|Ciudad Evita (La Matanza Partido) File:Peatonal Florencio Varela 1.jpg|Florencio Varela File:Viacivitanovamarche.JPG|General San Martín File:Iglesia Inmaculada concepción....jpg|Monte Grande (Esteban Echeverría Partido) File:Provincia de Buenos Aires - Vicente López - Avenida Maipú.jpg|Olivos (Vicente López Partido) File:Quilmes001bis.jpg|Quilmes File:Parque junto al Museo de Arte Tigre.jpg|Tigre File:Ruta_Panamericana_Buenos Aires_Florida.jpg|Pan-American Expressway, north of Buenos Aires

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Tallarico, Valeria. (2017). "Caracterización del AMBA".
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(15 June 2006). "Ley 13473". Provincia de Buenos Aires.
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