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What to Expect When Visiting Buenos Aires

By: Art Gib

The South American city of Buenos Aires is one of the largest cities of Latin America, and is the capitol of Argentina. Buenos Aires is located on the southern shore of the Rao de la Plata, and the southeastern coast of the South American continent.

Buenos Aires is populated mostly by people of Spanish and Italian decent, but there are many residents of French, British, German, Eastern European, and Syrian background and some communities of Paraguayans and other Latin Americans. The universal language of Argentina is Spanish, but many natives and immigrants keep their mother tongues as a matter of pride.

Buenos Aires is Argentina's chief port and its financial, industrial, commercial, and social center. The city is the distribution hub and trade outlet for a vast area. The historical importance of its port, one of the world's busiest, has led the citizens of Buenos Aires to call themselves portenos (people of the port). Meat and dairy products, hides, wool, flax, and linseed oil are the chief exports.

Buenos Aires, the most heavily industrialized city of Argentina, is a major food-processing center, with huge meatpacking plants, refrigeration plants, and flourmills. Other leading industries are metalworking, automobile manufacturing, oil refining, printing and publishing, machine building, and the production of textiles, chemicals, paper, clothing, beverages, and tobacco products. Factories began to move into some of the suburbs in the 1980s.

Argentina is currently going through a restructuring period. Many destinations and highlights have become more "tourist" friendly over the last few years and the tourism industry has grown considerably. Buenos Aires, was recognized as one of the top twenty-five destinations and voted a 2008 Traveler's Choice Award Winner.

Local culture is celebrated in the weekly Mataderos Fair, featuring regional food, crafts and horse races. The city's dozens of neighborhoods, each with its own personality, offer museums, restaurants, shopping, history, dancing and outdoor activities, to suit any taste or budget.

Additional attractions to visit while vacationing in Buenos Aires are, Iguazu Falls, just due north, is one of the greatest wonders of nature in the world. The 275 separate cascades that make up the Iguazu Waterfalls are truly magnificent. Further to the South, one finds the unbelievable region of Patagonia. This region features amazing mountains and lakes, excellent winter skiing, and entices the sports enthusiasts with various warm weather sports the rest of the year.

El Calafate and Peninsula Valdes feature wonders like the Perito Moreno Glacier along with amazing nature and wildlife, while Tierra del Fuego is the closest point to the Antarctic. Visit penguin colonies, glaciers and encounter a great variety of wildlife in Patagonia.

West of Buenos Aires, the wine region is located around the lively city of Mendoza. Mendoza is also located right next to the magnificent Andes Mountains. Finally, only an hour ferry from Buenos Aires takes visitors to the quiet colonial town of Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. Explore the beautiful town and enjoy the atmosphere, the food, and the quiet beach.

Buenos Aires has a flavor all its own and is a place you will never forget. It is definitely worth a visit.

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Art Gib is a freelance writer writing about BAStay a leading provider of Buenos Aires apartments.

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