Buenos Aires Province

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Introduction

The province (state) of Buenos Aires is located in the immensity of the Pampas Plains only interrupted by the Tandilia and Ventania mountain ranges. It is the largest and most populous province of Argentina and takes its name (meaning "good winds") from the City of Buenos Aires although the city is autonomous and not part of the province.

Buenos Aires is the land of the gauchos filled with tradition and history. For the tourist, there are a variety of great travel opportunities to be found all over the province. There are many tours located around the many districts not far from Buenos Aires such as Luján, Mercedes, Pilar, San Isidro and Tigre (and its delta region). Chascomús and other lagoons of Buenos Aires offer intense fishing excursions. Rural areas such as San Antonio de Areco invite tourists to perform activities typical from that countryside along with offering accommodation in ancient estancias along with the opportunity to breath in the pure air of the Pampas Plains while enjoyed a cup of mate and a traditional asado criollo (a gaucho styled cookout). Adventure travel in Balcarce, Sierra de la Ventana and Tandil round out tourist opportunities in Buenos Aires Province.

Buenos Aires Province Today

In the last several decades the areas outside of the City of Buenos Aires began to develop disproportionately quickly particularly in the suburban areas and includes around 10 million people constituting two-thirds of the total population of Buenos Aires Province today.

Today the province also finds itself in the midst of a great paradox. While it enjoys vast agricultural and industrial production, its economy nevertheless strains to find the means to provide for its nearly 15 million inhabitants which constitutes nearly 40% of the nation’s total population of which 9.7 million live in Greater Buenos Aires and 5 million in the rest of the province.

The province’s economy has long been the largest in Argentina. Its manufacturing accounts for about 40% of the country’s total production and its agriculture is renowned around the world for its level of production. Cattle have historically provided the main animal husbandry activity but the province is also the country’s top producer of chicken, pork and sheep. Of equal importance is the province’s dairy industry and in recent decades crop harvests have become vital to include flax, maize, soybean, sunflower and wheat.

Tourism remains important in the province. There is a thriving industry along the province’s coastline which begins some 150 miles south of the City of Buenos Aires and extends southward beyond the border of the province. Tourism is also important in suburban areas north of the City of Buenos Aires are fishing trips to lagoons of the province and rural vacations to estancias (ranches) as well as many new agri-tourism services increasing in popularity with foreigners visiting the province.