CITY OF "GOOD AIR"
Where the world's widest boulevard flanks the widest river—Río de la Plata—a port city was permanently founded in 1580. Its European flavor was enhanced in the 19th century by immigrants from Spain, Italy, Ireland, and Eastern Europe, who came to style themselves porteños. Beef, grain, and produce from the nearby pampas fueled the Buenos Aires economy. In recent decades shocks from politics, economics, and crime have rocked the city. Having weathered past upheavals, porteños hang on as the rhythms of their tango play on.
ECONOMYShipping, finance, agricultural trade and distribution, food processing, metalworking, motor vehicles, oil refining, printing and publishing, machine building, textiles. Text source:
National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition, 2004
