The city of Buenos Aires is administratively divided into fifteen comunas,[1] unlike the Province of Buenos Aires, which is subdivided into partidos, or the rest of Argentina, in which the second-order administrative division is departamentos.[2] Each comuna encompasses one or more neighbourhoods (barrios), which are represented in the respective community centres for administrative purposes.[3]
The division by comunas was instituted by the 1996 Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires,[4] and modified in 2005 by Law #1777.[5] The law was again modified in 2008,[6] 2011,[7] and 2013.[8]
- ^ "Cuadro P1-P. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Población total y variación intercensal absoluta y relativa por comuna. Años 2001-2010" (PDF). Censo 2010 (in Spanish). El Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Cartografía y códigos geográficos del Sistema Estadístico Nacional; Definiciones: Jurisdicciones de segundo orden". Unidades Geoestadísticas (in Spanish). El Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Decreto Nº 251/14". BOCBA 4426 Publ. 27/06/2014 (in Spanish). La Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ Title 6 "Título Sexto - Comunas" (in Spanish). La Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Ley Orgánica de Comunas, Nº 1777". La Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. 1 September 2005. Archived from the original on 23 December 2007.
- ^ Ley Orgánica de Comunas, Nº 2650
- ^ Nº 3802 Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine and Nº 4013 Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine of 2011
- ^ Nº 4630 Archived 3 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine of 2013