Buenos Aires 1900

Buenos Aires 1900 is a scaled (≈1:22) recreation of Buenos Aires Province, the Río de la Plata and southern Uruguay, set in 1900. Gigantomaniac 1:1 (28.7 × 28.7 km).

Terrain

• Real elevation. The Sierra de la Ventana and Tandilia ranges rise out of an almost flat pampa.
• The Paraná, the Uruguay and the Río de la Plata are widened and deepened for shipping, all the way to the north edge of the map.
• Real coastline, the Río de la Plata estuary, the Paraná delta, the Salado river and 200+ lagoons (Encadenadas, Epecuén, Mar Chiquita, Chascomús…).
• A field patchwork that changes by region: the rolling pampa, the Salado lowlands, the southern wheat belt, the dry west and Uruguay.
• The Paraná delta is forest with open marsh glades. Gallery woods follow the rivers, small woods dot the pampa, and groves sit behind the Atlantic dunes and on the sierra foothills.
• Buenos Aires has a waterfront terrace on its east side for the port and the railway terminus, and the Riachuelo on its south side.

Towns (75)

Buenos Aires, Montevideo, La Plata, Bahía Blanca, Mar del Plata, Tandil, Azul, Olavarría, Junín, Pergamino, San Pedro, Chivilcoy, Mercedes, Chascomús, Dolores, Necochea, Tres Arroyos, Sierra de la Ventana, Villa Gesell, Colonia and more. Starting sizes follow 1900 populations, and each town starts with period-appropriate cargo demands. Streets carry period Argentine names (San Martín, Belgrano, 25 de Mayo…).

Industries (64) at or near their real sites, with real names:

• Quilmes brewery, Loma Negra cement, the Tandil granite quarries, the Zárate–Campana meat packers, the Mar del Plata cannery, the Juan Lacaze paper mill.
• Grain farms across the pampa, cattle in the Salado basin, fishing off the Atlantic ports, and more.
• The region has no coal, iron or onshore oil, so these are placed at the map edges and offshore as "imports" to keep the steel, refinery and vehicle chains playable.

Requirements

Both mods are installed as dependencies. Keep them enabled when you play this map.

• Buenos Aires 1900 - All Industries economy. Without it the game uses the Temperate economy, and the cement, rubber, tire and paper chains won't work.
  • Alternative: set experimentalMapFeatures = true in settings.lua, then Gameplay Settings → Experimental → Industries = All Industries.
• Buenos Aires 1900 - Argentine names. The map's street names come from it.
• PC with 16 GB RAM or more (Gigantomaniac map).

Tips

• Start in 1900. Railways are the backbone; roads between towns were dirt tracks.
• Industries that aren't served can close after about 5 years unused, as in any map.

Credits and data sources

• Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles (Mapzen/Tilezen; sources include SRTM, ETOPO1, GMTED).
• Coastline, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth (public domain).
• Lagoons and town positions: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Descripción (español)

Buenos Aires 1900 es una recreación a escala (≈1:22) de la provincia de Buenos Aires, el Río de la Plata y el sur del Uruguay en 1900. Mapa Gigantomaniac 1:1.

• Relieve real, con las sierras de la Ventana y de Tandilia sobre la pampa. Costa, delta del Paraná, río Salado y más de 200 lagunas.
• El Paraná, el Uruguay y el Río de la Plata están ensanchados y profundizados para la navegación.
• 75 ciudades con tamaños y demandas de 1900, y 64 industrias en sus lugares reales (cervecería Quilmes, Loma Negra, canteras de Tandil, frigoríficos de Zárate–Campana, papelera de Juan Lacaze…).
• Buenos Aires tiene una terraza costera al este para el puerto y la estación terminal, y el Riachuelo al sur.
• Delta del Paraná boscoso, montes en galería junto a los ríos, montes dispersos en la pampa y arboledas detrás de los médanos.
• Requiere los mods Buenos Aires 1900 - All Industries economy y Buenos Aires 1900 - Argentine names (nombres de calles argentinos), que tienen que estar activos al jugar.

Datos: AWS Terrain Tiles, Natural Earth, © colaboradores de OpenStreetMap.