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Regarding having been registered as Afro-descendants in the 2010 Census, the results were shocking and dismaying: 100% said they had not, as they received Form B. Some interpretations Given the limited scope and simplicity of our census, we were only able to report on the small universe we polled, and abstained from comparing it to others and project any representativity on a national level. Recalling the metaphor about the glass of water, numbers do not speak for themselves, especially if they are analyzed using erroneous suppositions that distort reality. But, interpreting results can help understand social dynamics of AfroArgentines of Colonial Origin. Place of birth was recorded as completely as possible, even with respect to the neighborhoods of those born in the City of Buenos Aires. This allow us to update, at least in part, the origin of Afro-descendants in the hypothesis that the San Telmo and Monserrat neighborhoods, which are held in the popular imagination and certain academic literature as “Afro neighborhoods.,” but have ceased being representative of this a long time ago: our census result was zero. Nevertheless, we can state that Carlos César Lamadrid lives in Monserrat with his family, and was born in Constitución. Similarly, five of the 83 Afro-porteños were born in Recoleta, a neighborhood that was not 91