George Reid Andrews' The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires – 1800-1900 from 1980 remains one of the most important sources on the cultural impact of Afro-Argentines on Porteño society. The Argentine scholar Alejandro Frigerio has done more recent research in the past twenty years. However, all sources in regard to Afro-Argentine Candombe must be approached very critically. Frigerio has determined that many scholars of Afro-Argentine culture have used descriptions of Afro-Uruguayan Candombe without acknowledging this “in order to portray what the Argentine one was or could have been like” (Frigerio, “Blacks in Argentina” 10). For illustrations, movies, and more, Afro-Uruguayan comparsas, rhythms, musicians have been and are being used to highlight the nation's black heritage. Additionally, there has been almost no information on the characteristics of the old Afro-Argentine Candombe. We have tried to find reliable information to the best of our abilities, and by that mark differences to Candombe in Montevideo. (For further information on Afro-Uruguayan Candombe, please go to “Candombe in Uruguay”)