Parque Chas

Parque Chas is a neighborhood in the northwest of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. It is 1.4 km ², the smallest of the 48 districts of Buenos Aires, has almost 19,000 inhabitants (as of 2001) and belongs to the Comuna C15.

Parque Chas is bounded by the streets of La Pampa, Triunvirato, Combatientes de Malvinas, Chorroarín and Constituyentes. The district is the only one that is not created in the usual checkerboard pattern. The streets Victorica Avalos and Gándara meet in the center of the district, where they open into a roundabout. The remaining streets of Parque Chas concentrically applied to this roundabout, named after European cities. Only close to the main avenues La Pampa, Triunvirato and de Los Incas one finds streets in a grid pattern. For district also includes two small parks, according to one of them Parque Chas is named.

To highlight the contrast with the rest of the city, mentioned several writers, including Alejandro Dolina, Parque Chas as a place where one could get lost (literally or metaphorically considered ).

Parque Chas is not only the smallest, but also legally considered one of the youngest neighborhoods. Until 2005 it belonged to the neighboring Agronomía, but then got the status of a district awarded.