Ensenada is a city and port in Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires Province

The Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...

, Argentina

Argentina

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, located around the Ensenada de Barragán

Ensenada de Barragán

The Ensenada de Barragán is a small bay on the Río de la Plata, some southeast of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The area belongs today to the Ensenada district of Buenos Aires province, centred around the city of the Ensenada...

. It has 31,031 inhabitants as per the . It is the capital of Ensenada Partido

Ensenada Partido

Ensenada Partido is a district of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, belonging to the Greater La Plata area, just south of the Gran Buenos Aires urban conglomerate....

, and
together with Berisso Partido

Berisso Partido

Berisso Partido is a small eastern partido of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.The provincial subdivision has a population of 80,092 inhabitants in an area of 135 km² , and its capital city is Berisso, which is located around 57 km  from Buenos Aires.The district forms part of...

 they are the main suburbs of the Gran La Plata conurbation around the provincial capital of La Plata

La Plata

La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of La Plata partido. According to the , the city proper has a population of 574,369 and its metropolitan area has 694,253 inhabitants....

.

The port of Ensenada carries grain

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 and beef

Beef

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 exports, as well as industrial shipments. The volume traded has been recently growing at the expense of the Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

 port, located 60 km to the north-west.

As Buenos Aires city authorities are considering repurposing the port of Buenos Aires as a passenger-only facility, the volume at Ensenada (as well as that of the ports in Campana

Campana, Buenos Aires

Campana is a city in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, in the Campana Partido. It is located about from Buenos Aires City, on the right-hand margin of the Paraná River, Its population is 84,000 inhabitants as per the ....

 and Bahía Blanca

Bahía Blanca

Bahía Blanca is a city located in the south-west of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Atlantic Ocean, and seat of government of Bahía Blanca Partido. It has a population of 274,509 inhabitants according to the...

) is slated to experience further growth.