Mar 12, 2008 20:22
16 yrs ago
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Spanish term

conurbano

Spanish to English Tech/Engineering Architecture city planning
Buenos Aires y todo su conurbano

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Greater Buenos Aires

La idea es que el conurbano incluye a las áreas urbanas edificadas contiguas a la ciudad, incluyendo barrios apartados y las así llamadas ciudades dormitorios. También incluye al sistema vial que conecta esos lugares.

Espero te sirva.
Saludos.
Wilson
Peer comment(s):

agree Jim Tucker (X)
12 mins
agree Lucy Phillips : I've made another suggestion below but I think yours maybe the more correct term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Buenos_Aires
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Muchas gracias! (Como no suele pasar, lo sabemos pero no lo sacamos de la memoria!)"
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outskirts

It's always used in the plural form
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agree Victoria Porter-Burns :
1 min
agree eski : outskirts is correct
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4 mins

conurbated area

www.rec.uba.ar/ubacyt_2004-7/archivos/U025.doc



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Note added at 6 min (2008-03-12 20:29:30 GMT)
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http://www.centre-cired.fr/forum/article297.html

http://www.derondevenen.nl/index.php?simaction=content&mediu...
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neutral Jim Tucker (X) : neither of these links is a native English source
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7 mins

metropolitan area

Greater Buenos Aires (Gran Buenos Aires, GBA, in Spanish) is the generic ... and the "Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires" (Área Metropolitana Buenos Aires, ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Buenos_Aires - 24k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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BUE - Buenos Aires [Metro Area], DF, AR - Metropolitan Area ...Metropolitan Area information about BUE - Buenos Aires [Metro Area], DF, AR.
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[PDF] Urban Mutations in the Buenos Aires metropolitan Area by Eduardo ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
The Buenos Aires metropolitan area, the third largest urban region in Latin America (12,6 million. inhabitants in 8.000 sq. km. ...
www.holcimfoundation.org/Portals/1/docs/F04/leston
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agree Jim Tucker (X)
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suburbs

"(the city of) Buenos Aires and its suburbs"

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Note added at 29 mins (2008-03-12 20:52:54 GMT)
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or "the conurbation of Buenos Aires" perhaps, the term does exist in English.

ESA - Observing the Earth - Buenos Aires: site of Kyoto Protocol's ...
The large conurbation of Buenos Aires is seen as a distinct grey area on the southern bank of the River Plate, while the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo is ...
www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMR1P0A90E_index_1.html - 33k
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