Street Maps, Guides for Buenos Aires, Argentina

Description

A series of maps & guides for Buenos Aires, the capital and largest city in Argentina (3 million people in the city, 15 million in the larger metro area), the shining showpiece of the Argentine nation and the biggest tourist draw in South America.
Includes a detailed street map of the city of 78 square miles on the broad Rio de la Plata, which manages to be stately and gracious even with a population density of roughly 40,000 people per square mile, as well as a road map of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (from Pilar to La Plata), a map of the Buenos Aires metro system and more detailed maps of the Centro/San Telmo and La Boca sections of the city (from ArgenGuide, circa 2005); a street map & shopping guide to Buenos Aires (from the Hotel Inter-Continental, circa 1995); a map & guide to upscale Recoleta, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, home to the National Fine Arts Museum, the National Library, and the famous Recoleta Cemetery, the final resting place for much of Argentina’s elite (from www.baturistica.com.ar, 2007); and a map & guide to the Palermo neighborhood, known for its vibrant nightlife, and for being the home of the Argentine Polo Open, the Buenos Aires Botanical Gardens and the Galileo Planetarium (from Indumentaria, 2007).