Buenos Aires Central Business District

Buenos Aires Central Business District
Unofficial barrio
Aerial view of Buenos Aires' central business district
Location of the CBD (light and dark green) and the Microcenter (light green) within Buenos Aires.
Coordinates: 34°36′14″S 58°22′14″W / 34.60389°S 58.37056°W / -34.60389; -58.37056
Country	Argentina
Autonomous City	Buenos Aires
Comuna	C1
Population	C.20000
Time zone	UTC-3 (ART)

The Buenos Aires Central Business District is the main commercial centre of Buenos Aires, Argentina, though not an official city ward. While the barrios of Puerto Madero and Retiro house important business complexes and modern high-rise architecture, the area traditionally known as Microcentro (Spanish: Microcenter) is located within San Nicolás and Monserrat, roughly coinciding with the area around the historic center of the Plaza de Mayo. The Microcentro has a wide concentration of offices, service companies and banks, and a large circulation of pedestrians on working days. Another name given to this unofficial barrio is La City, which refers more precisely to an even smaller sector within the Microcentro, where almost all the banking headquarters of the country are concentrated.