Buenos Aires is organised as a grid, with very long avenues crossing each other every 100 metres, making it quite easy to find your way, or get disoriented.
Each time you pass one « cuadra » (block), the house numbers increases by one hundred. Therefore at number 3300 you are at 33 cuadras from the harbour, or from the street that does the main East-West divide of the city.
As mentioned before, most of Argentine streets have names of (sometimes) obscure (especially to me) persons of Argentine history. Slightly boring. The others have the name of Argentine Provinces. I prefer (me, the Geographer).
Anyway, why don’t they have the variety we have in Europe? Well, creating a city from scratch on a (close to) virgin land in the 16th century has its consequences.
You have to search for the soul of the city in another dimension.
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