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Encyclopedia > Caballito

Caballito is a neighborhood, or barrio, of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires (Good Airs in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in Latin America. ...


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Caballito Photos and Fish Species Information (574 words)
Fish Identification Photos: Caballito, Goggle Eye, or Bigeye Scad, Selar crumenophthalmus: This fish is one of the Carangidae or Jack Family that is characterized by its very large eyes and elongated body with a widely forked tail.
The Caballito is pelagic, widely distributed across the central Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, from Africa, throughout Micronesia and to the Eastern Pacific south to Ecuador.
In Mexico, the Caballito is found occasionally in the Los Cabos area of Baja California, north along Baja's Cortez coast to San Felipe, and throughout all coastal waters of mainland Mexico.
Buenos Aires Residents Rebel Against Apartment Towers (859 words)
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 11 (Tierramérica) - Upset with the multiplication of apartment towers in neighborhoods of single-family dwellings, residents in Buenos Aires are calling for a halt to unregulated construction that threatens to push water and sanitation services to the brink of collapse and leave the city without green spaces.
The epicenter of the phenomenon is the central neighborhood of Caballito, where 15.4 percent of all new buildings were built in the January-August period, although the district covers just three percent of the capital's total area.
The movement emerged in June with a demonstration by 40 Caballito residents.
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