Tigre Partido
Tigre Partido
Partido de Tigre | |
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| Municipio de Tigre | |
Tigre railway station | |
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Seal Municipal logo | |
Location of Tigre Partido in Buenos Aires Province | |
| Coordinates: 34°25′22″S 58°34′51″W / 34.42278°S 58.58083°W | |
| Country | Argentina |
| Province | Buenos Aires |
| Region | Greater Buenos Aires |
| Established | 1785 |
| Founded | 1790 |
| Cabecera | Tigre |
| Government | |
| • Intendant | Julio Zamora (UP) |
| Area | |
• Total | 368 km2 (142 sq mi) |
| • Land | 148 km2 (57 sq mi) |
| • Water | 220 km2 (85 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2 m (6.6 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 446,949 |
| • Rank | 12th in the province |
| • Density | 1,214.53/km2 (3,145.6/sq mi) |
| • Largest city | Don Torcuato: 64,867 (2,010 census) |
| Demonym | Tigrense |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (ART) |
| CPA | B1608, B1610, B1611, B1617, B1618, B1621, B1623, B1624, B1648, B1649, B1670, B1671 |
| Area Code | 011, 0348, 03327 |
| HDI (2004) | 0.835 (117th) – Very High |
| Website | www |
Tigre is one of the 135 partidos of the Buenos Aires province in Argentina. It is located in the northern area of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan region. This district encompasses a significant portion of the Paraná Delta and its low-lying islands, as well as a continental zone containing its administrative head, the city of Tigre, along with other localities such as Don Torcuato, General Pacheco, Benavídez, El Talar, Rincón de Milberg, and Nordelta.
The partido is bounded to the north by the Paraná de las Palmas River, which separates it from the San Fernando Partido; to the northeast by the Río de la Plata; to the southeast by San Fernando Partido and San Isidro Partido; to the south by San Martín Partido; to the southwest by San Miguel Partido and Malvinas Argentinas Partido; and to the west by Escobar Partido.
Its total area, including the islands, is 368 km2 (142 sq mi). As of the 2022 Census, the district had a population of 446,949 inhabitants.
Famous Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges described the area with the words: "no other city do I know that adjoins a secret group of green islands, which get lost at unknown waters of such a slow river that literature called it frozen..."