page_title: Buenos Aires Central Business District
section_title: Retiro
hierarchical_section_title: Buenos Aires Central Business District / Districts / Retiro
caption_attribution_description: Buenos Aires
context_page_description: 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 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.
context_section_description: Retiro is one of the largest hubs of transportation services in Argentina.  Local and long distance rail service heading to the north originate from Estación Retiro (Retiro Terminal Station), and Retiro bus station is the city's main long-distance bus terminal. Subte line C of the Buenos Aires Metro system and numerous local public bus services serve Retiro, and this area is always teeming with commuters and traffic on weekdays.
  The most important avenue linking Retiro and the CBD to commuters living in residential areas to the north is Avenida del Libertador, which becomes Leandro Alem Avenue past the Retiro Station. Other important thoroughfares in the Retiro section of the CBD are Córdoba, Santa Fe, and 9 de Julio Avenues.
  The high-rise business district of Catalinas Norte, as well as the northern end of the Puerto Madero development, is located east of Leandro N. Alem Avenue. Opposite the Retiro train terminal, at the northern end of the CBD, is the leafy Plaza San Martín, surrounded by great palaces and hotels. The Retiro lowlands were once the training grounds for José de San Martín's Granaderos corps,  and the modern-day Plaza San Martín features an equestrian statue honoring the hero of the Argentine War of Independence, as well as a memorial for the dead in the 1982 Falklands War. Facing the station is Argentine Air Force Square, where the Torre Monumental (formerly Torre de los Ingleses), a monument donated by the Anglo-Argentine community for the 1910 centennial celebrations, is located.
  Other significant landmarks opposite the Plaza are the Kavanagh Building, a reinforced concrete structure that when completed in 1936, was the tallest building in Latin America at 120 metres (394 ft). The nearby Brunetta Building (formerly headquarters for Olivetti's Latin American operations) was the first in Argentina to be built in the International style.
caption: The Avenida Leandro N. Alem in Retiro, featuring the Catalinas Norte business complex.
exif: {"Image Tag 0x000B": "digiKam-5.6.0", "Image ImageDescription": "", "Image Make": "SONY", "Image Model": "ILCE-7M2", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Capture One Pro 11.0 Windows", "Image ExifOffset": "242", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 3, 0, 0]", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "S", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[34, 355809/10000, 0]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "W", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[58, 223959/10000, 0]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSAltitude": "42743/2738", "GPS GPSTimeStamp": "[21, 57, 51]", "GPS GPSDate": "2017:12:17", "Image GPSInfo": "844", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1092", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "3416", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/200", "EXIF FNumber": "9", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF SensitivityType": "Recommended Exposure Index", "EXIF RecommendedExposureIndex": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2017:12:17 21:57:51", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2017:12:17 21:57:51", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "477741/62500", "EXIF ApertureValue": "126797/20000", "EXIF BrightnessValue": "11127/1280", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "4", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "24", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "5865", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "4236", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "24", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF Contrast": "Hard", "EXIF Saturation": "Hard", "EXIF Sharpness": "Hard", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[24, 24, 4, 4]", "EXIF LensModel": "Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* FE 24-70 mm F4 ZA OSS (SEL2470Z)"}