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The city of Buenos Aires is located in front of the Río de la Plata, it occupies a surface of 200km² and it is made up of 47 neighborhoods.
The majority of the "Porteños" are identified with the neighborhood where they lived almost all their life. It is not common that tourists visit all these neighborhoods since there aren't specific attractions; but nine of them concentrate most of the tourist attractions: La Boca, San Telmo, Monserrat, Puerto Madero, San Nicolás, Retiro, Recoleta, Palermo and Belgrano.
It is easy to move around the city since it is distributed in blocks of 100 meters long and wide (10,000 square meters surface). There are avenues and streets identified with names of personalities of the cultural, military and political history of the country and of the world as well as places and dates. The financial district, commonly referred to as "La City" or "Microcentro" is located between Avenida Cordoba and Avenida de Mayo and between Avenida 9 de Julio and Avenida Paseo Colón; while the tourist areas of the city are found in the neighborhoods near the "centro" or downtown, and they are: Recoleta, Palermo, la Boca, San Telmo and Puerto Madero.
Population: 2,965,403 (City of Buenos Aires), 37,812,817 (Republic of Argentina).
Climate: Temperate. Sporadically reaches peaks of 40ºC (110ºF) during the months of January through March, while the coldest months are June and July with temperatures of 0ºC (30ºF).
Religion: Roman Catholic (92 %), Protestant (2 %,) Jewish (2 %) and other (4 %).
Ethnic Group: 97 % are white (of European descent) and 3 % are a mixture of Native Indians and other races.
Language: Spanish -Castilian- (official), a minority speaks English, Italian, German and French. Lunfardo (commonly used in tango lyrics) is a form of slang that is spoken by non-educated people.
Currency: The official currency in Argentina is the peso.
Taxes: VAT (Valued Added Tax) or I.V.A. (Impuesto al Valor Agregado) is 21% and it is almost always included in purchases.
National Flower: The national flower is the ceibo.
National Stone: The rodocrosita or "inca rose" is the national stone.
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Starting at the Cathedral and Archbishop's Palace and the 17th. century Church of San Francisco with its 19th. century tower, forming a group of outstanding beauty, from there the range of tourist sights spreads out in all directions of Salta - Argentina.
Iguazu Falls - Cataratas del Iguazu - consists of some 275 separate waterfalls - in the rainy season there are as many as 350 - that send their white cascades plunging more than 200 feet onto the rocks below.
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