in the mid-1800s, the well-known tenements in the thriving city of Buenos Aires filled with countrymen from the interior, "gringos" just off the ship and several porteños with few resources who, perhaps to differentiate themselves or to establish roots, marked with their own impulse the new popular expressions.
Mixture of closed codes and with particular language, tango germinated in the dance houses, along the Riachuelo, the bowling alley of carters and quarters, the tenements in the southern neighborhood. In those years, many of the immigrants came alone, and the few women who did come were in academies or in dating houses.
