Porteño

Porteño is derived from the Spanish ' del Puerto "or" que vive en el puerto "and is used to denote a person who lives in a port city. The term can also be used as an adjective for anything that is connected to a port, used. Usually Porteño refers to the port city of Buenos Aires ( Argentina) and since the end of the 19th century is meant by porteños the inhabitants of Buenos Aires. In contrast Bonaerense referred to a resident of the province of Buenos Aires.

As an impact of European immigration in the 1880s, the area around the Río de la Plata was around and especially Buenos Aires populated by people of European descent, mainly Italians and Spaniards. In contrast, the population of the interior and especially the Northwest of Argentina continued largely composed of Creoles, mestizos and Native Americans. For this reason, the inhabitants of Buenos Aires looked at as being different from the rest of the country and bordered with the name Porteño from. This awareness continues to this day and also includes a greater proximity to the inhabitants of Montevideo ( Uruguay), which has a similar history of immigration and also is a port city.

• Buenos Aires
• Spanish Language