Communes of Buenos Aires

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] Each comuna encompasses one or more neighbourhoods (barrios), which are represented in the respective community centres for administrative purposes.[3]

The comunas separately coloured, showing neighbourhood divisions

The division by comunas was instituted by the 1996 Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires,[4] and modified in 2005 by Law #1777.[5] The law was again modified in 2008,[6] 2011,[7] and 2013.[8]

List of comunas

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The comunas are serially numbered. They are listed below in numerical order together with their constituent neighbourhoods.[9]

  1. Comuna 1: Puerto Madero, San Nicolás, Retiro, Monserrat, San Telmo and Constitución
  2. Comuna 2: Recoleta
  3. Comuna 3: Balvanera and San Cristóbal
  4. Comuna 4: La Boca, Barracas, Parque Patricios and Nueva Pompeya
  5. Comuna 5: Almagro and Boedo
  6. Comuna 6: Caballito
  7. Comuna 7: Flores and Parque Chacabuco
  8. Comuna 8: Villa Soldati, Villa Lugano and Villa Riachuelo
  9. Comuna 9: Parque Avellaneda, Mataderos and Liniers
  10. Comuna 10: Villa Luro, Vélez Sársfield, Floresta, Monte Castro, Villa Real and Versalles
  11. Comuna 11: Villa Devoto, Villa del Parque, Villa Santa Rita and Villa General Mitre
  12. Comuna 12: Villa Pueyrredón, Villa Urquiza, Coghlan and Saavedra
  13. Comuna 13: Núñez, Belgrano and Colegiales
  14. Comuna 14: Palermo
  15. Comuna 15: Villa Ortúzar, Chacarita, Villa Crespo, La Paternal, Agronomía and Parque Chas

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Cuadro P1-P. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Población total y variación intercensal absoluta y relativa por comuna. Años 2001-2010" (PDF). Censo 2010 (in Spanish). El Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Cartografía y códigos geográficos del Sistema Estadístico Nacional; Definiciones: Jurisdicciones de segundo orden". Unidades Geoestadísticas (in Spanish). El Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Decreto Nº 251/14". BOCBA 4426 Publ. 27/06/2014 (in Spanish). La Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  4. ^ Title 6 "Título Sexto - Comunas" (in Spanish). La Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Ley Orgánica de Comunas, Nº 1777". La Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. 1 September 2005. Archived from the original on 23 December 2007.
  6. ^ Ley Orgánica de Comunas, Nº 2650
  7. ^ Nº 3802 Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine and Nº 4013 Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine of 2011
  8. ^ Nº 4630 Archived 3 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine of 2013
  9. ^ "Notas aclaratorias referidas a la división político-territorial y político-administrativa en las publicaciones censales" (PDF) (in Spanish). El Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. 2012. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
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