Vehicle Registration Plates Of Argentina
Argentine license plates (in Spanish, chapas patentes or simply patentes) are used to uniquely identify motor vehicles on the roads of Argentina. The current system employs three letters followed by three digits, issued consecutively, but the license plate system underwent significant changes before the use of this format.
The history of license plates in Argentina can be broken down in two major phases, the decentralized phase (until 1972) and the centralized one (since 1972). During the decentralized phase, license plates were assigned by each municipality or by the provinces, while during the second phase, the national state took charge of standardizing and centralizing the design and style.
Read more about Vehicle Registration Plates Of Argentina: 1900s-1972: Decentralization, 1972-1994: Identifying The Provinces, 1995 Onwards: A National Standard, Limits of The System
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