Road signs in Argentina

In 1994, the Congress of Argentina promulgated Law n° 24.449 with the purpose of establishing a single rules system within the whole country.

[1] The diagrams of those road signs were published in the "Anex L" of Decree 779 (promulgated in 1995), which ruled Law 24.449 and added visual information to its article 22.

[3] The first road signs in Argentina can be traced to 1817, in Buenos Aires Province, when Juan Martín de Pueyrredón (then Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata) promulgated a Decree to create a Road Committee.

This committee was commissioned to place posts on the main roads to serve as reference and guide for pedestrians.

[4] To reach a consensus and solve the problem, in 1939 the DNV created a committee to make variations to the existing sign system.

[10] In 1941, the DVBA ("Dirección de Vialidad de Buenos Aires", the provincial road administration) signed the first agreement with the Argentine Automobile Club (ACA), which stated that the ACA would build and place about 5,000 road signs on the main routes of Buenos Aires.

[12] New signs were introduced in December 1994, with the promulgation of Law 24.449 by the Congress of Argentina, with the purpose of establishing a single rules system within the whole country.