Porteño
Porteño is the
Spanish demonym for those born in the
Argentine city of
Buenos Aires. In
Chile, it is used also for the inhabitants of
Valparaiso.
Buenos Aires locals refer to themselves as
Porteños and its associated to the word
puerto ("port"), because many of them originally arrived by boat from Europe and settled in the
port area, as Buenos Aires was the most important port in Argentina since the beginning of the
Spanish colonisation of the Americas to late in the
20th century.
Its feminine form is
Porteña.It is not to be confused with the word
portuario, which means "of the port", that is used for things of any given port.
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Rioplatense Spanish*
Lunfardo (Porteño's
slang)
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Porteños
