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Buenos Aires, the autonomous city and capital of Argentina, is composed of 48 neighbourhoods (locally known as barrios). Since 2008, the city is also legally divided into communes (comunas), each one including one or more barrios.
The Palace of Justice of the Argentine Nation (Spanish: Palacio de Justicia de la Nación Argentina, more often referred locally as Palacio de Justicia or Palacio de Tribunales), is a large building complex located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the seat of the Supreme Court and other lower courts.
Mayor Manuel de Frías proposed the building of the cabildo in what is now the Plaza de Mayo on March 3, 1608, since the government of the city lacked such a building. [11] Its construction was financed with taxes from the port of Buenos Aires, the building was finished in 1610 but was soon found to be too small and had to be expanded.
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] [d] is the capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. "Buenos aires" is Spanish for "good airs" or "fair winds".
Palacio Barolo is a landmark office building, located at 1370 Avenida de Mayo, in the neighborhood of Monserrat, [1] Buenos Aires, Argentina.It stood as Buenos Aires' tallest building for more than a decade until the construction of the Kavanagh Building in 1936.
The comunas separately coloured, showing neighbourhood divisions. The city of Buenos Aires is administratively divided into fifteen comunas, [1] unlike the Province of Buenos Aires, which is subdivided into partidos, or the rest of Argentina, in which the second-order administrative division is departamentos. [2]
The center of Buenos Aires in 1936, with the Kavanagh Building in the lower left corner. It was designed in 1934, by local architects Gregorio Sánchez, Ernesto Lagos and Luis María de la Torre, built by the constructor and engineer Rodolfo Cervini, and inaugurated in 1936.
The State of Buenos Aires (Spanish: Estado de Buenos Aires) was a secessionist republic resulting from the overthrow of the Argentine Confederation government in the Province of Buenos Aires on 11 September 1852. The State of Buenos Aires was never explicitly recognized by the Confederation; it remained, however, independent under its own ...