Communes of Buenos Aires

The city of Buenos Aires is administratively divided into fifteen comunas, 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. Each comuna encompasses one or more neighbourhoods (barrios), which are represented in the respective community centres for administrative purposes.

The division by comunas was instituted by the 1996 Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires, and modified in 2005 by Law #1777. The law was again modified in 2008, 2011, and 2013.

List of comunas
The comunas are serially numbered. They are listed below in numerical order together with their constituent neighbourhoods.


 * 1) Comuna 1: Puerto Madero, San Nicolás, Retiro, Monserrat, San Telmo and Constitución
 * 2) Comuna 2: Recoleta
 * 3) Comuna 3: Balvanera and San Cristóbal
 * 4) Comuna 4: La Boca, Barracas, Parque Patricios and Nueva Pompeya
 * 5) Comuna 5: Almagro and Boedo
 * 6) Comuna 6: Caballito
 * 7) Comuna 7: Flores and Parque Chacabuco
 * 8) Comuna 8: Villa Soldati, Villa Lugano and Villa Riachuelo
 * 9) Comuna 9: Parque Avellaneda, Mataderos and Liniers
 * 10) Comuna 10: Villa Luro, Vélez Sársfield, Floresta, Monte Castro, Villa Real and Versalles
 * 11) Comuna 11: Villa Devoto, Villa del Parque, Villa Santa Rita and Villa General Mitre
 * 12) Comuna 12: Villa Pueyrredón, Villa Urquiza, Coghlan and Saavedra
 * 13) Comuna 13: Núñez, Belgrano and Colegiales
 * 14) Comuna 14: Palermo
 * 15) Comuna 15: Villa Ortúzar, Chacarita, Villa Crespo, La Paternal, Agronomía and Parque Chas