Why are some people in Argentina called Portenos?
"Porte��os" comes from the word Puerto, which means Port in Spanish. Porte��os was first introduced to describe the people that lived near the main Port in Argentina which is in Buenos Aires, the Capital of Argentina. So Porte��os is used to refer to people that live in Buenos Aires. If referring to a female the right use of the word would be Porte��A, with an "a" at the end.