Chinatown (Buenos Aires), Buenos Aires — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Chinatown (Buenos Aires)?

The Sarmiento Historic Museum anchors the edge of Chinatown, holding the house where a former Argentine president once worked and the records of the surrounding Belgrano district in its galleries. Museums cluster here. A short walk carries you to the Museum of Spanish Art Enrique Larreta and its walled garden, and on toward the Parroquia Inmaculada Concepción, the round church that gives this stretch of Belgrano its silhouette.

The quarter reads small on the map.

What is the history of Chinatown (Buenos Aires)?

Migration made this quarter. Chinese and Taiwanese families settling in Belgrano opened the first groceries and eating houses along a few blocks of Buenos Aires, and the cluster slowly grew into the small Chinatown that draws the wider city on weekends. The grid came first.

The Sarmiento Historic Museum and the Parroquia de la Santísima Trinidad already stood among these streets when the new shops arrived to line them.

Where is Chinatown (Buenos Aires)?

Chinatown sits on the flat subtropical ground of Belgrano, a few walkable blocks within the north of Buenos Aires. It runs small and dense. The Sarmiento Historic Museum and the Belgrano Athletic Stadium frame the wider quarter, while the Museum of Spanish Art Enrique Larreta marks its quieter western reach.