4. LA BOCA – CAMINITO - RIACHUELO
Caminito is today a central touristic point of Buenos Aires where you're going to hear every language but spanish. Since the decade of 1990, just a few blocks around Caminito were guarded by the police, but since the crisis of the country in 2001 and the revaluation of the south of the city, more blocks were added to the touristic area.
Caminito is exclusively touristic nowadays, but it was very different back in the old days of the beginning of the 20th Century. In those days, the whole neighborhood was full of ships, cranes, fights between the "guapos porteños" (the name given to the bad guys of that times in Buenos Aires), and even a big bridge to transport the tramway from the capital city to the suburbes ("Gran Buenos Aires"), in front of the ending of the river called Riachuelo.
However, La Boca is far known because of one of the most important football clubs of the world: the Club Atlético Boca Juniors. It's in this neighborhood were the tourists get to know the astounding passion of the argentine people for the football, being the most famous sport in the country.
The roots of Buenos Aires stays in La Boca and the south of the city. These images capture those places: