Buena ( BEW-nə) is a borough in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the borough’s population was 4,501, a grow less of 102 (−2.2%) from the 2010 census enhance of 4,603, which in aim reflected an lump of 730 (+18.8%) from the 3,873 counted in the 2000 census.

Charles K. Landis was a home developer who was the driving force astern the foundation of Hammonton and Vineland. Landis also had a hand in establishing other small communities, including Landisville, in Buena Borough. He planned to make it county seat of a extra county called Landis County, which would incorporate land from the surrounding counties. However, the locals were next to this, and began calling him “King Landis”.

Buena was incorporated as a borough by an case of the New Jersey Legislature on September 1, 1948, from portions of Buena Vista Township. The borough was reincorporated upon May 18, 1949. The borough derives its declare from Buena Vista Township, which in face was named for the 1847 Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican–American War.

In 1979, local resident Madeline Barrale authored a 115-page wedding album illustrating the Borough’s history. Buena Borough highly praised its 50th Anniversary in 1999 when the 1st Annual “Buena Day” at Bruno Melini Park. In 2002, the St. Padre Pio Shrine was erected by Italian-American farmers in the Landisville section of Buena and has attracted what was described by The New York Times as a “steady stream of Catholics” who assent pray at the site.