Porteño

{{short description|Demonym for inhabitants of port city in the Spanish language}}

{{About|the Porteño people|the dialect of Spanish|Rioplatense Spanish}}

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{{Langx|es|Porteño|label=none}} (feminine: Porteña, {{lit|port city person}} in Spanish) is mainly used to refer to the residents of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is also used for other port cities, such as El Puerto de Santa María, Spain; Valparaíso, Chile;{{cite news|last=Gregory |first=Vanessa |title=Tastes of Newly Fashionable Valparaíso, Chile |date=November 8, 2009 |newspaper = The New York Times |url= http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/travel/08journeys.html |accessdate=2024-12-13}}{{cite news|last= Gabanski |first= Pepa |title= Old Prejudices Die Hard In Chile’s Rival Coastal Cities: Viña and Valparaíso |newspaper=The Santiago Times |url= http://www.santiagotimes.cl/news/other/20562-old-prejudices-die-hard-in-chiles-rival-coastal-cities-vina-and-valparaiso |date= 21 January 2011 |accessdate= 2024-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124025439/http://www.santiagotimes.cl/news/other/20562-old-prejudices-die-hard-in-chiles-rival-coastal-cities-vina-and-valparaiso |archive-date=24 January 2011 |url-status=dead}} Mazatlán, Veracruz, Acapulco and Tampico, Mexico; Puerto Cabello, Venezuela; Puerto Colombia, Colombia; Puerto Suárez in Bolivia; Puerto Cortés, Honduras; Puntarenas, Costa Rica, and Montevideo, Uruguay.