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Time in Argentina. Argentina is located at a longitude that would naturally put it in the UTC−04:00 or UTC−05:00 time zone; however, it actually uses the UTC−03:00 time zone. Argentina determines whether to change clocks in observation of daylight saving time on a year-by-year basis, and individual provinces may opt out of the federal ...
The Kirchner Cultural Center (Spanish: Centro Cultural Kirchner) [3] [4] is a cultural centre located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the largest of Latin America, [5] [6] and the third or fourth largest in the world. [7] The building was originally opened in 1928 as the Buenos Aires Central Post Office ("Palacio de Correos"), [1] operating ...
The Plaza de Mayo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈplasa ðe ˈmaʝo]; English: May Square) is a city square and the main foundational site of Buenos Aires, Argentina.It was formed in 1884 after the demolition of the Recova building, unifying the city's Plaza Mayor and Plaza de Armas, by that time known as Plaza de la Victoria and Plaza 25 de Mayo, respectively.
1542 – City attacked by indigenous people and settlers abandon it, moving to Asunción. 1580 – Second foundation of the city around fort built by Juan de Garay. [1] 1591 – Dominican monastery established. [2] 1604 – San Francisco monastery established. [2] 1611 – Men's Hospital founded.
Obelisco de Buenos Aires. The Obelisco de Buenos Aires (Obelisk of Buenos Aires) is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires. Located in the Plaza de la República in the intersection of avenues Corrientes and 9 de Julio, it was erected in 1936 to commemorate the quadricentennial of the first foundation of the city.
Buenos Aires is the financial, industrial, and commercial hub of Argentina. The economy in the city proper alone, measured by gross geographic product (adjusted for purchasing power), totaled US$102.7 billion (US$34,200 per capita) in 2020 [ 118 ] and amounts to nearly a quarter of Argentina's as a whole. [ 119 ]
This last statement was confirmed by the former first candidate for Buenos Aires legislator linked to the convicted former minister Julio de Vido, [76] Gonzalo Díaz Córdoba, [77] who was appointed in 2020 by the Buenos Aires government as trustee of the Puerto Madero Corporation.
Pilar is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina with a population of 299,077 as per the 2010 census [INDEC]. It is part of the Greater Buenos Aires urban conurbation and is the seat of the administrative division of Pilar Partido. Since the early 1990s, Pilar has gained an increasingly upscale profile due to the development of ...