Porteño (feminine: porteña) in Spanish is used to refer to a person who is from or lives in a port city, but it can also be used as an adjective for anything related to those port cities. The largest city to which the term is commonly applied is Buenos Aires, Argentina, and since the end of the 19th century Porteños has come to be the name of t...
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(from the article `Argentina`) ...a serious division between the rural interior and the urban coast. Many rural people grew to resent the wealth, political power, and cultural ... ...to a boite (`nightclub`) for an evening of tango, the emotional dance that originated in the lower-class areas of the city and is said to reflect...
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