Caminito is an alley, museum and passage of great cultural and tourist value located in the neighborhood of La Boca, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This place became culturally significant because it inspired the music of the famous tango "Caminito" (1926), composed by Juan de Dios Filiberto. However, the lyrics of the tango, written by the Riojan Gabino Coria Peñaloza, are based on a path in the town of Olta, in the province of La Rioja. In honor of Coria Peñaloza, a street in Chilecito was named "Caminito" in 1971.

It is located in the popular neighborhood of La Boca, with one end facing the Riachuelo at Vuelta de Rocha and about 400 meters from La Bombonera, the stadium of Club Atlético Boca Juniors. The path, which runs east-west in a curve of about 150 meters, crosses a block bounded by Araoz de Lamadrid (north), Garibaldi (west), Magallanes (south) and Del Valle Iberlucea (east) streets. It follows the course of an old track of a branch of the Buenos Aires Railroad to Puerto de la Ensenada, later abandoned. In 1959, Caminito was officially converted into a "museum street", completely pedestrianized.

Originally, Caminito's winding route was due to a stream that flowed into the Riachuelo and was crossed by a small bridge, known in Genoese dialect as "Puntin". In 1866, the company Ferrocarril Buenos Aires a Ensenada built a freight branch between Estación General Brown and Estación Muelles de la Boca, which was closed in 1928. Subsequently, the track deteriorated and was used as a garbage dump. In 1950, a group of neighbors, including the Boquense painter Benito Quinquela Martín, decided to recover the place. In 1959, under the initiative of Quinquela Martín, a museum street called "Caminito" was built.

"One fine day it occurred to me to turn that paddock into a lively street. I managed to get all the material or wood and zinc houses bordering that narrow little road to be painted with colors (...) And the old paddock became a cheerful and beautiful street, with the name of the beautiful song and a real Art Museum was installed in it, where you can admire the works of famous artists, generously donated by their authors".

The wood and sheet metal houses in front of Caminito follow the style of the traditional "conventillos boquenses", precarious popular dwellings typical of the neighborhood since the end of the 19th century. These houses, painted in bright colors, are subsidized by the State to guarantee their maintenance. In the adjacent streets, you can walk through the traditional conventillos, built of sheet metal and painted in bright colors, as preserved by their inhabitants.

Along Caminito, important artistic works are exhibited, among them:

- "Herrero boquense" by Marisa Balmaceda Krause.

- Waiting for the boat" by Roberto Juan Capurro.

- "El maestro/ El coro/ El trabajo" by Humberto Eduardo Cerantonio

- "The Family" by Nicasio Fernández Mar

- "Guardia vieja - Tango" by Israel Hoffmann

- Works by Luis Perlotti, Benito Quinquela Martín, Julio Vergottini and many more.

Caminito has become a cultural and tourist center where you can see couples dancing tango, and a craft market that offers paintings, souvenirs, crafts, and collages with images of La Boca. In 2022, the restoration and enhancement of the place was completed, recovering the original colors designed by Quinquela Martín.

Proof of this is that the Boquense musician Juan de Dios Filiberto was inspired by this path to compose the music of the tango "Caminito", although Gabino Coria Peñaloza's lyrics refer to a path in Olta, La Rioja, where he had a young love. Filiberto asked Coria Peñaloza to compose the verses for his tango, resulting in the creation of "Caminito" in 1926.

"Caminito que el tiempo ha borrado,

that together one day you saw us pass,

I have come for the last time,

I've come to tell you my evil (...)"

Although there are plaques in Caminito that incorrectly indicate that the tango premiered in 1923, the correct premiere date is 1926.