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 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.
7-581: Villa Ballester is a city located in the northern Greater Buenos Aires urban area and it is part of the General San Martín Partido in Buenos Aires Province , Argentina. It is served by the Línea Mitre commuter railway with its station also named Villa Ballester. Founded on 26 October 1889. Pedro Ballester (4 December 1849 – 5 September 1928) started the development of
14-497: A German school by the West German government. The city received international attention as one of the host cities of the 1990 FIBA World Championship . Greater Buenos Aires Urban sprawl , especially between 1945 and 1980, created 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
21-477: The "Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires" ( Área Metropolitana Buenos Aires , AMBA). In colloquial speech, people refer to the "Buenos Aires' conurbation" as 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
28-436: 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 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")
35-477: The Buenos Aires conurbation. The first two groups (24 partidos ) comprise the traditional conurbation, or the "conurbation proper", while the third group of six partidos is in the process of becoming fully integrated with the rest. As urbanization continues and the conurbation grows, six additional partially urbanized partidos (totaling 1,062,991 population of as the 2022 census) are now fully connected with
42-477: The town in the late 1880s in some fields occupied by his family, the chacra Miguel Ballester y Flotat. A key factor for the success of the new town was the train which provided fast access to Buenos Aires. The town was named after the commercial partnership between Pedro Ballester and Guillermo Lacroze, "Sociedad Villa Ballester". Hölters Schule , a German school, is in Villa Ballester. It was once recognized as
49-424: 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 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
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