Gran La Plata (Greater La Plata) is an urban agglomeration formed around the city of La Plata , in Buenos Aires Province , Argentina . It includes the La Plata , Berisso and Ensenada partidos (departments).
8-647: Gran La Plata is located to the south of the Greater Buenos Aires agglomeration next to Rio de La Plata . To a small extent, the two metropolitan areas have slowly begun to merge. Nevertheless, the main centres remain separated by two dense forest reserves: the " Punta Lara jungle" (" Selva marginal ") by the River Plate , and the "Pereyra Iraola Park" ("Parque Pereyra Iraola") a few kilometers inland. The cities of Berisso and Ensenada existed well before La Plata and were both candidates to become
16-408: A vast metropolitan area of over 3,800 km² (1,500 mi²) - or 19 times the area of Buenos Aires proper. The 24 suburban partidos (counties) grew more than six-fold in population between the 1947 and 2022 censuses - or nearly 2.5% annually, compared to 1.4% for the nation as a whole. While annual growth for the suburban area slowed to 0.8% between 2010 and 2022, the 14 million inhabitants in
24-606: The Río de la Plata shore, acted from then on as natural harbors for the new capital city of the Province, and gradually they also became integrated as a conurbation into Greater La Plata. Greater Buenos Aires Greater Buenos Aires ( Spanish : Gran Buenos Aires , GBA ), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area ( Spanish : Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires , AMBA ), refers to
32-523: The urban agglomeration comprising the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the adjacent 24 partidos (districts) in the Province of Buenos Aires . Thus, it does not constitute a single administrative unit. The conurbation spreads south, west and north of Buenos Aires city. To the east, the River Plate serves as a natural boundary. Urban sprawl , especially between 1945 and 1980, created
40-455: The City of Buenos Aires. The term is also related to other expressions that are 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). In colloquial speech, people refer to the "Buenos Aires' conurbation" as
48-442: The capital city of Buenos Aires Province once Buenos Aires city was federalized in 1880. Eventually, it was decided to build a new city, La Plata, entirely designed to serve as the provincial capital. It was founded in 1882. Soon after, irregular suburbs began to appear outside the designed limits of La Plata. These suburbs would go on to become an integral part of La Plata Partido municipality. Neighboring Berisso and Ensenada, on
56-400: The entire 30-county area plus the City of Buenos Aires account for a third of the total population of Argentina and generate nearly half (48%) of the country's GDP. The term Gran Buenos Aires ("Greater Buenos Aires") was first officially used in 1948, when Governor of Buenos Aires Province Domingo Mercante signed a bill delineating as such an area covering 14 municipalities surrounding
64-477: The set of municipalities that surround the City of Buenos Aires, and which are mostly populated by working-class or middle-class communities. The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) has defined Greater Buenos Aires. There are three main groups within the Buenos Aires conurbation. The first two groups (24 partidos ) comprise the traditional conurbation, or the "conurbation proper", while
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