Nueva Pompeya

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Nueva Pompeya
Neighborhood of Buenos Aires
Location of Nueva Pompeya within Buenos Aires
Country	Argentina
Autonomous City	Buenos Aires
Comuna	C4
Important sites	Puente Valentín Alsina Church of the Rosary of Nueva Pompeya Club de Pescadores, Nueva Pompeya
Area
• Total	6.1 km2 (2.4 sq mi)
Population
• Total	63,276
• Density	10,000/km2 (27,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-3 (ART)

Nueva Pompeya (Spanish for New Pompei), often loosely referred to as Pompeya, is a neighbourhood in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Located in the South side, it has long been one of the city's proletarian districts steeped in the tradition of tango and one where many of the first tangos were written and performed.

A neighborhood local, the legendary tango composer Homero Manzi, set a very popular tango (Sur) in Nueva Pompeya, describing a melancholy landscape (“Pompeya and beyond the flood”) that, even today, defines much of the district's physionomy.