Pinamar, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
馃嚘馃嚪 Pinamar is an Argentine coastal resort city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in Buenos Aires Province.
Located less than 400聽km (249聽mi) south of Buenos Aires, it is one of several small seaside communities that line the coast. Since Pinamar's main attraction is the ocean, it is a fairly quiet town during the winter months. Tourism fuels the economy during the summer. Several other coastal towns are right beside Pinamar. If you move south, you will have the towns of Ostende, Valeria del Mar, and finally Caril贸.
Two facts set Pinamar apart from most of the other Argentine beach cities: it is a planned city with a very strict building code, and it has been artificially turned from wild sand dunes into a forest (mostly of pine trees, which explains the "pina" in the town's name). City planning, as defined by founding architect orge Bunge] and maintained by elected authorities ever since, translates into a city mostly made up of residential houses with open gardens.
Pine planting was originally started in Caril贸鈥攁 town nearby Villa Gesell and copied in Pinamar, although the city plan for Villa Gesell was not as carefully laid out or kept through the years.
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Pinamar has a population of over 45,000 people. Pinamar also forms the centre of the wider Pinamar Partido which has a combined population of over 65,666 people.
Twin Towns - Sister Cities Pinamar has links with:
馃嚝馃嚪 Deauville, France 馃嚭馃嚫 Myrtle Beach, USA