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Balvanera

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Balvanera is a neighborhood ("barrio") of Buenos Aires, Argentina. [1]

62 relations: Abasto de Buenos Aires, AMIA bombing, Angel, Arabs, Argentina, Argentine cumbia, Argentine rock, Armenians, Asian Argentines, Avenida Belgrano, Avenida Córdoba, Avenida Corrientes, Avenida Pueyrredón, Avenida Rivadavia, Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Underground, Carlos Gardel, China, Colectivo, Colectivo 60, Confitería El Molino, Congressional Plaza, Galicia (Spain), Gentrification, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martín", Jews, Jorge Luis Borges, Korea, La balsa, Leandro N. Alem, Lito Vitale, Lost Embrace, Macedonio Fernández, Ministro Pistarini International Airport, Monolith, Monserrat, Buenos Aires, National Congress of Argentina, Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, Once railway station, Palace of the Argentine National Congress, Parish, Plaza Miserere, Population density, Puerto Madero, Radical Civic Union, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, República Cromañón nightclub fire, Retiro bus station, ..., San Nicolás, Buenos Aires, Spanish language, Subdivisions of Buenos Aires, Sumo (band), Tango, Tango music, Tanguito, The Water Company Palace, Time in Argentina, Toll road, University of Buenos Aires, Yiddish. Expand index (12 more) »

Abasto de Buenos Aires

The Abasto Shopping is one of the biggest shopping mall centers in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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AMIA bombing

The AMIA bombing was an attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA; Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) building.

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Angel

An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies.

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Arabs

Arabs (عَرَب ISO 233, Arabic pronunciation) are a population inhabiting the Arab world.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Argentine cumbia

Argentine cumbia is an umbrella term that comprises several distinct trends within the same tradition: the dance and music style known as cumbia in Argentina.

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Argentine rock

Argentine rock (known locally as rock nacional, Spanish for "national rock") is rock music composed or performed by Argentine bands or artists mostly in Spanish.

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Armenians

Armenians (հայեր, hayer) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian Highlands.

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Asian Argentines

Asian-Argentines or Asian-Argentinians refers to Argentines of Asian ancestry who are citizens or residents of Argentina.

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Avenida Belgrano

Avenida Belgrano is an avenue that runs through Montserrat, Balvanera and Almagro neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Avenida Córdoba

Córdoba Avenue is one of the principal thoroughfares in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Avenida Corrientes

Avenida Corrientes is one of the principal thoroughfares of the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.

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Avenida Pueyrredón

Avenida Pueyrredón is an avenue that runs through Recoleta and Balvanera neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and goes from southwest to northeast, parallel Avenida 9 de Julio.

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Avenida Rivadavia

Avenida Rivadavia is one of the principal thoroughfares in Buenos Aires, Argentina, extending from downtown Buenos Aires to the western suburb of Merlo.

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Bernardino Rivadavia

Bernardino de la Trinidad González Rivadavia y Rivadavia (May 20, 1780 – September 2, 1845) was the first President of Argentina, then called the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, from February 8, 1826 to June 27, 1827.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.

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Buenos Aires Underground

The Buenos Aires Underground (Subterráneo de Buenos Aires), locally known as Subte (from subterráneo – 'underground' or 'subterranean'), is a mass transit metro system that serves the area of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Carlos Gardel

Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald Gardès; 11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a French Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Colectivo

Colectivo (English: collective bus) is the name given in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay to a type of public transportation vehicle, especially those of Argentina's capital city, Buenos Aires.

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Colectivo 60

The Colectivo 60 (the number 60 bus route) was founded in 1931 and runs from Constitución station, in the centre of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina to the Tigre Club in the partido of Tigre.

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Confitería El Molino

The Confitería El Molino is an Art Nouveau style coffeehouse located on the corner of Callao and Rivadavia Avenues, in front of the Argentine National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Congressional Plaza

Congressional Plaza (Spanish: Plaza del Congreso) is a public park facing the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires.

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Galicia (Spain)

Galicia (Galician: Galicia, Galiza; Galicia; Galiza) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.

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Gentrification

Gentrification is a process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents.

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Hipólito Yrigoyen

Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen Alem (July 12, 1852 – July 3, 1933) was a two-time President of Argentina (from 1916 to 1922, and again from 1928 to 1930).

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Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martín"

The Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martín" is a teaching hospital located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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La balsa

"La balsa" (Spanish for "the raft") is the debut single by the Argentine band Los Gatos, released on July 3, 1967 on Vik, a subsidiary of RCA Victor.

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Leandro N. Alem

Leandro Nicéforo Alem (born Alen) (11 March 1841 – 1 July 1896) was an Argentine politician, born in Buenos Aires, a founder and leader of the Radical Civic Union.

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Lito Vitale

Héctor Facundo Vitale (born December 1, 1961, Villa Adelina, Buenos Aires province), known as Lito Vitale, is an Argentine musician, composer and arranger.

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Lost Embrace

Lost Embrace (El abrazo partido) is a 2004 Argentine, French, Italian, and Spanish comedy drama film, directed by Daniel Burman and written by Burman and Marcelo Birmajer.

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Macedonio Fernández

Macedonio Fernández (1 June 1874 – 10 February 1952) was an Argentine writer, humorist, and philosopher.

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Ministro Pistarini International Airport

Ministro Pistarini International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Ministro Pistarini), known as Ezeiza International Airport owing to its location in the Ezeiza Partido in Greater Buenos Aires, is an international airport south-southwest of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina.

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Monolith

A monolith is a geological feature consisting of a single massive stone or rock, such as some mountains, or a single large piece of rock placed as, or within, a monument or building.

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Monserrat, Buenos Aires

Monserrat or Montserrat (in the original Catalan name) is a neighbourhood in the east of the Buenos Aires CBD.

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National Congress of Argentina

The Congress of the Argentine Nation (Congreso de la Nación Argentina) is the legislative branch of the government of Argentina.

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Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, autonomous city and capital of Argentina, is composed of forty-eight neighbourhoods (locally known as barrios).

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Once railway station

Once railway station, formally (date (11th of September Station), informally estación Once (Eleven Station))) is a large railway terminus in central Buenos Aires, Argentina in the barrio of Balvanera. The station, inaugurated on December 20, 1882, is located in the barrio of Balvanera immediately north of Plaza Miserere, a large public square. The station is named after the September 11, 1852, rebellion of Buenos Aires against the Federal government of General Justo José de Urquiza. Coincidentally President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento also died on September 11 (1888), but contrary to popular belief in Argentina, this is not the date commemorated by the station's name.

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Palace of the Argentine National Congress

The Palace of the Argentine National Congress (Palacio del Congreso Nacional Argentino, often referred locally as Palacio del Congreso) is a monumental building, seat of the Argentine National Congress, located in Buenos Aires at the western end of Avenida de Mayo (at the other end of which is the Casa Rosada).

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Plaza Miserere

Plaza de Miserere is one of the main plazas (squares) of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Puerto Madero

Puerto Madero, also known within the urban planning community as the Puerto Madero Waterfront, is a barrio (district) of the Argentine capital at Buenos Aires CBD, occupying a significant portion of the Río de la Plata riverbank and representing the latest architectural trends in the city of Buenos Aires.

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Radical Civic Union

The Radical Civic Union (Unión Cívica Radical, UCR) is a centrist social-liberal political party in Argentina.

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Recoleta, Buenos Aires

Recoleta is a downtown residential neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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República Cromañón nightclub fire

The República Cromañón nightclub fire occurred in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 30 December 2004, killing 194 people and leaving at least 1,492 injured.

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Retiro bus station

Retiro bus station (Terminal de Ómnibus de Retiro) is the main bus terminal in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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San Nicolás, Buenos Aires

San Nicolás is one of the neighbourhoods of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, sharing most of the city and national government structure with neighboring Montserrat and home to much of Buenos Aires' financial sector.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Subdivisions of Buenos Aires

The city of Buenos Aires is formally divided in 48 barrios (neighbourhoods), grouped into 15 comunas (communes), which are defined as "units of decentralized political and administrative management governed by designated residents".

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Sumo (band)

Sumo was a 1980s Argentine alternative rock band, merging post-punk with reggae.

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Tango

Tango is a partner dance which originated in the 1880s along the River Plate (Río de Plata), the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.

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Tango music

Tango is a style of music in 4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay (collectively, the "Rioplatenses").

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Tanguito

José Alberto Iglesias (September 16, 1945 – May 19, 1972), better known as Tango or its diminutive Tanguito, was an Argentine rock singer-songwriter.

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The Water Company Palace

The Palace of Flowing Waters (Palacio de Aguas Corrientes) is an architecturally significant water pumping station in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Time in Argentina

Argentina is located at a longitude that would naturally put it in the UTC−4 or UTC−5 time zone, but it actually uses the UTC−3 time zone.

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Toll road

A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage.

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University of Buenos Aires

The University of Buenos Aires (Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is the largest university in Argentina and the second largest university by enrollment in Latin America.

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Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish/idish, "Jewish",; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש Yidish-Taitsh, Judaeo-German) is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews.

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Barrio Once, Nuestra Señora de Balvanera, Once, Buenos Aires.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balvanera

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