Demonym for inhabitants of port city in the Spanish language
This article is about the Porteño people. For the dialect of Spanish, see Rioplatense Spanish.
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (2024-08-25) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 988 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Porteño (gentilicio)]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Porteño (gentilicio)}} to the talk page.
Porteños have a unique culture, different from that of their initial European homelands. Notably, equestrian sports are a huge part of Porteño life.[1] Buenos Aires produces some of the best polo players in the world, due to the high quality of ponies raised throughout the fertile grasslands in the Pampas region and the enthusiastic sponsorship of the sport by Argentina's land-owning elites.[2] Each year, in November, the Palermo Open, the world's most prestigious Polo championship, takes place in the Palermo section of Buenos Aires.[3]
Also tracing to the inherent geographies of the Pampas, Porteño cuisine consists heavily of beef. For example, the national dish of Argentina is asado.
Demographics
Since Porteño is not officially reportable on any census, estimates differ regarding their population and geography. However, it is estimated that over 3 million Uruguayans identify as Porteño, making up over 90% of the country's population.[citation needed] While not the majority ethnicity in Argentina, Porteños are prominent in the eastern province of Buenos Aires. Outside Buenos Aires City, they make up most of the population, and a significant Porteño diaspora exists in the City's Recoleta, Palermo, and Belgrano neighborhoods.[citation needed]
References
^Leandro Losada, “Sociabilidad, Distinción y Alta Sociedad en Buenos Aires: Los Clubes Sociales de la Elite Porteña (1880-1930),” Desarrollo Económico 45 (2006):547–72.
^Archetti, Eduardo (2020). "Chapter III: Hybridization and Male Hybrids in the World of Polo". Masculinities: Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina. Oxford: Routledge.