Vicente López

Vicente López is one of the 135 partidos (districts) of Buenos Aires Province, located immediately north of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires in the area known as 'zona norte' of Greater Buenos Aires. With just 33 km² and a population of 282,281 according to the 2022 Census, it is the smallest partido and one of the densest in the province, with more than 8,000 inhabitants per km². Its main town, Olivos, is known for housing the Quinta de Olivos — the official residence of the President of Argentina — and for a high-quality residential environment that makes it one of the country's most liveable districts.

In sporting terms, Vicente López has built a model that combines high-quality public infrastructure with an extraordinarily dense network of neighbourhood clubs. The district has eight municipal sports centres distributed across different neighbourhoods, where more than 80,000 residents engage in regular sport. The flagship of this project is the Paseo de la Costa, a riverside corridor along the Río de la Plata that offers eight kilometres of cycle lanes, volleyball courts, football-tennis, basketball, tennis, table tennis, and calisthenics spaces, all freely accessible. This promenade has become one of the most heavily used urban sports corridors in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.

The municipality's commitment to sport as public policy led Vicente López, governed by Mayor Soledad Martínez, to officially present its candidacy for American City of Sport 2026 to ACES America in April 2025. The event was endorsed by athletes formed in the district — among them Delfina Merino, the historic Las Leonas player named FIH Player of the Year for 2017 — and attended by the ACES America delegation led by its coordinator general, Gonzalo Cuesta, and delegate Adriana Sánchez. The candidacy aims to position the district internationally as a Latin American benchmark for citizen sport, inclusion, and wellbeing. In addition to the eight sports centres, the district has more than 70 neighbourhood clubs and 25 squares and green spaces.

Vicente López is also an important cultural and gastronomic hub in the northern Buenos Aires metropolitan area. Its localities — Olivos, Florida, Munro, Villa Martelli, La Lucila, and Vicente López city — offer diverse cultural offerings, an active neighbourhood life, and exceptional transport links thanks to proximity to the federal capital. The district strikes a remarkable balance between the urban density typical of the Conurbano and a quality of public space that sets it apart within Greater Buenos Aires.