Buenos Aires - Botanical Garden

Inaugurated in 1908, the Buenos Aires Botanical Garden was designed towards the end of the 19th. century by the French landscape designer Carlos Thays to help accomplish university studies and to classify botanical species. Nowadays, the Garden occupies a surface of 69,772 square meters and comprises about 5,500 shrub species, arboreal species and herbaceous species spread around the whole space and sorted by place of origin, family and use; gardens of style; and five greenhouses. Av. Santa. Fe 3951 between Las Heras and Santa Fe avenues and República Arabe Siria street. Hours: Monday through Sundays, from 8 am to 6 pm. Free admission. 4832-1552

Buenos Aires Botanical Garden