Everything about Greater Buenos Aires totally explained
Greater Buenos Aires (
Gran Buenos Aires, GBA, in
Spanish) is the generic denomination to refer to the
megalopolis comprised by the
autonomous city of Buenos Aires and the
conurbation around it over the
province of Buenos Aires—namely the adjacent 24
partidos or municipalities—which nonetheless don't constitute a single administrative unit. The conurbation spreads to the south, west and north of Buenos Aires; to the east the
River Plate serves as a natural boundary.
The term "Greater Buenos Aires" is related with other expressions 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).
Definition
The
National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (
Instituto Nacional de Estadísticay Censos), INDEC, has defined Greater Buenos Aires to be comprised by:
Fourteen fully urbanized partidos
There are three main groups within the Buenos Aires' Conurbation:
Ten partidos partially urbanized
Six additional partidos not yet conurbated
As urbanization continues and the conurbation grows, six additional partially urbanized
partidos now are fully connected with the conurbation:
The first two groups (24
partidos) comprise the traditional conurbation, or the "conurbation proper". The third group of six
partidos is in process of becoming fully integrated with the rest.
Urban sprawl, especially in the years 1940 to 1960, created a vast
conurbation which had 9,270,661 inhabitants in 2001 in the above-mentioned partidos and a total of 12,046,799 including the city of Buenos Aires proper.
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