Gran Cordoba

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Gran Córdoba is the name for the metropolitan area of ​​the Argentine city of Córdoba . There are numerous suburbs around the city, especially along the main arteries. Depending on the definition, the entire area has between 1.4 and 2 million inhabitants.

The population of the province of Córdoba is concentrated in the conurbation of Córdoba : In the 10,000 square kilometers around the city, with around 2 million inhabitants, 65% of the provincial population lives on around 7% of the territory (a total of 165,321 km²).

definition

There are two different views as to which cities and areas belong to the Gran Córdoba:

  • Gran Córdoba as a continuously built-up area . According to this version, after which u. a. According to the INDEC statistical office , the agglomeration had 1,368,301 inhabitants in 2001, the number is estimated at 1.5 million today (2006).
  • Gran Córdoba as a catchment area (similar to the German metropolitan region ) : According to this version, which u. a. Is favored by the newspaper La Voz del Interior , the metropolitan area also includes satellite cities that are not directly connected to the city, but are closely connected to Córdoba via commuters. According to this version, the population of the metropolitan area is around 1.6 to 1.9 million, depending on which places are included.

Population distribution and development

In addition to the actual city of Córdoba, the agglomeration consists of two major regions: the areas at the foot of the Sierra Chica mountain range and in the Valle de Punilla valley west of the city, as well as the places on the arteries of the Pampa plain in the north, east and south of the city pull along. With the exception of La Calera and Malagueño , the western areas, located in a scenic area, are characterized by a high socio-economic level. a. lots of gated community and country clubs . In contrast, the areas on the eastern periphery are poor and partly characterized by extensive slums .

While the city of Córdoba itself currently has stable but relatively low population growth (approx. 10% between 1991 and 2001), the growth rates on the periphery are almost without exception very high. The highest growth rates were shown by Juárez Celman with 830% and Mendiolaza with 170% between 1991 and 2001.

There are three reasons for the high growth: On the one hand, there are many families and retirees from the city of Córdoba, who are moving to the periphery of the city in search of less crime and more nature, primarily to the scenic areas in the west. Then poor families in search of low property prices move primarily to the northern and eastern periphery. Thirdly, government-planned social housing districts are increasingly being built on the outskirts of the city.

The internal migration plays a role, despite a slowdown in recent decades. There are two tendencies here: on the one hand, better-earning immigrants from the state capital Buenos Aires , who settle in the mountainous region in the west, on the other hand, poor and unemployed people from rural areas of Argentina, mainly from the north and from the neighboring countries Bolivia and Paraguay as well as Peru .

expansion

Continuously built-up area

The following localities (arranged clockwise from west to east) are to be classified in this area. The population figures in brackets () refer to the census in 2001 , but they are likely to be already far exceeded due to the high growth of the suburbs of Córdoba.

The area had 1,368,301 inhabitants in 2001.

*) This number of inhabitants only affects the inhabitants of the urban area who live in the continuously built-up parts. Isolated rural residents and in particular the Jardín Arenales district (see below) are not included.

Metropolitan area

The following cities and places with more than 1,000 inhabitants are counted in addition to the places mentioned in the catchment area of ​​the city. Some are about to merge with the city, others are up to 50 km away. However, they all have a strong infrastructural connection to Córdoba in common.

The areas have a total of 268,520 inhabitants; thus the population of Gran Córdoba rises to a total of 1,636,821, not including places with less than 1,000 inhabitants and the rural population.

*) Jardín Arenales administratively belongs to the city of Córdoba, but is not counted as part of the Gran Córdoba by the INDEC due to its relatively long distance to the rest of the built-up urban area.

Catchment area

The following departments of the province are generally regarded as the catchment area of ​​Córdoba:

This area has a total of 20,892 square kilometers and 1,835,088 inhabitants. The size of the Río Primero department with 6,753 square kilometers, which is the most sparsely populated in the area, should be considered.