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3 unusual facts about Rosario, Santa Fe


1986 South American Games

The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR) and were initially awarded to Brazil at its 1982 congress held in Rosario.

Arnaldo Sialle

Born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Sialle began playing professional football with Newell's Old Boys in the Primera División.

Emilio Badini

He was born in Rosario, Santa Fe Argentina and had Argentine citizenship but represented Italy internationally.


40 y Tantos

Diego (Francisco Melo), Rosario (Francisca Imboden), Marco (Francisco Pérez-Bannen) and Miguel Elizalde (Matías Oviedo) are four brothers who live the crisis forty and have just lost their father.

Abreu Camp

Jesus Gil Abreu and his wife Petra, a daughter of Carlos Beaubien, established the Abreu settlement shortly after Lucien Maxwell's departure from the area in 1857; in addition to a successful ranch, the family operated a store and cantina at which travelers on their way to Santa Fe could stop for refreshment and materials.

Alan V. Tishman

They had Two daughters (Pat T. Hall of Santa Fe, New Mexico and Virginia Nina Tishman Alexander of New York City) as well as one son David Tishman, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Aldo Poy

In 1997 the goal was recreated in Cuba, where Ernesto Guevara (the youngest son of Che Guevara, a famous fan of Rosario Central) played the role of Poy scoring the goal as in 1971.

Alfredo Fiorito

Alfredo Fiorito is a DJ who was born in the town of Rosario in Argentina.

Animal-borne bomb attacks

In 1862, during the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War a Confederate force approached the ford at Valverde, six miles north of Fort Craig, hoping to cut Union communications between the fort and their headquarters in Santa Fe.

Battle of Rio San Gabriel

Although Kearny had superior orders from the United States War Department, he had previously sent most of his troops back to Santa Fe, New Mexico, believing that the war in California had ended, and his remaining force sustained heavy losses in the United States defeat at the Battle of San Pasqual.

California Southern Railroad

Among the organizers were Frank Kimball, a prominent landowner and rancher from San Diego who also represented the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of City Trustees of San Diego, Kidder, Peabody & Co., one of the main financial investment companies involved in the Santa Fe, B.P. Cheney, L.G. Pratt, George B. Wilbur and Thomas Nickerson who was president of the Santa Fe.

Central Argentine Railway

The lines handled by F.C.O.S., which served the southwest of Santa Fe Province and the south of Córdoba (up to the city of Cruz Alta), were merged with those of the larger company, and the passenger services handled by Rosario Oeste Santafesino Station were transferred to Rosario Central Station, while the former was renamed Rosario Este.

Charles Tersolo

Subject matter covered by this artist includes Provincetown, Boston, Paris, the Grand Canyon, Santa Fe, Monument Valley, Valley of the Gods, New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Cape Elizabeth, and Mount Desert Island, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Claudio Velásquez

Claudio Matías Velásquez (born 18 February 1986 in Rosario) is an Argentine football striker who currently plays for José Gálvez in the Torneo Descentralizado.

Daniel Killer

Daniel Pedro Killer (born 21 December 1949 in Rosario) is a retired Argentine football defender who was part of the Argentina squad that won the 1978 FIFA World Cup.

Fabio Díez

Fabio Ricardo Diez Steinaker (born November 18, 1965 in Santa Fe, Argentina) is a former beach volleyball player, who represented Spain at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Ferrocarril Central Norte

The first section of the line to Chile via Socompa from Empalme Cerrillos to Rosario de Lerma was completed on 27 August 1907.

Football rivalries in Argentina

The teams nicknames relate from the same incident where Rosario Central refused to play a charity game for a Leprosy charity, hence their nickname Canallas (Scoundrels).

Giro di Castelbuono

Lirio Abbate & Rosario Mazzola, La storia del giro podistico internazionale di Castelbuono, Promos Editore (1994).

Hospital Escuela Eva Perón

It services the north of Greater Rosario (Granadero Baigorria, the north of Rosario proper, and Ibarlucea).

Hospital Tobar García

Tobar Garcia was founded in 1968, two years after its construction started; in-patient services began in 1969 with a contingent of children from Montes de Oca in Belgrano Department, Santa Fe.

HSBC Finance

Children of former full-time Beneficial employees are considered for scholarships to four Maryland institutions of higher learning: Hood College, Johns Hopkins University, St. John's College and Washington College.

John Chisum

In 1866-67, Chisum formed a partnership with cattlemen Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving to assemble and drive herds of cattle for sale to the Army in Fort Sumner and Santa Fe, New Mexico, to provide cattle to miners in Colorado as well as provide cattle to the Bell Ranch.

John Riley Banister

Between 1889 and 1892, Banister accepted special assignments as a detective for the Santa Fe and other railroads.

Jorge Griffa

Jorge Bernardo Griffa Monferoni (born September 7, 1935 in Casilda, Santa Fe) is a retired Argentine footballer.

Jorge Obeid

He became a member of the legislative council of Santa Fe and, as the President of the Council, became the mayor when the incumbent resigned.

José Inés Salazar

A Federal jury in Santa Fe acquitted him of the smuggling charge in May 1914, but he was then taken to a detention camp at Fort Wingate, New Mexico to face charges of violating American neutrality laws.

José Ruíz Matos

Ruíz had four successful defenses, defeating Juan Carazo, Ángel Rosario, Wilfredo Vargas and Armando Velasco.

José Vizcarra

Vizcarra played for the Rosario Central youth team until 2006 when he was loaned to Socio Aguila FC and then Club Zacatepec in Mexico, in 2007 he was loaned to LDU Quito.

Joseph Projectus Machebeuf

He served as pastor at Albuquerque (1853–1858) and at Santa Fe (1858–1860) before being transferred to Colorado, where he was thrown from his carriage while descending a spur of the Rocky Mountains and lamed for life.

Jovanny Rosario

Jovanny (De Los Santos) Rosario (born April 12, 1985 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic is an outfielder for the Olmecas de Tabasco in the Mexican League.

Kurtley Beale

The following week, he was selected again at fly-half against Argentina at Estadio Gigante de Arroyito in Rosario, setting up a try for Digby Ioane.

Leandro N. Alem

Parque Alem, one of two large parks in Rosario, Santa Fe, is named after Alem, and has a heroic statue of him, trying to bend a quebracho log, representing the motto of the Radical Civic Union, Se quiebra pero no se dobla ("It breaks but it does not bend", an expression of commitment to principles).

Manuel del Rosario

Del Rosario was born in Baao, Philippines in 1915, and was ordained a priest on March 25, 1939.

Marshall Barer

Marshall Barer (born Marshall Louis Barer, Astoria, Queens, 19 February 1923--Santa Fe, New Mexico, 25 August 1998 ) was a lyricist, librettist, singer, songwriter and director.

No Nay Never

Ridden again by Rosario, No Nay Never started the 4/1 second favourite behind the Aiden O'Brien-trained Coach House in a field of fourteen runners.

One Word from You

After the hard journey to the village, Rosario admits that she must not be alone anymore, so she decided to go to Fuenlabrada, where her friend Morsa, lives.

Oroño Boulevard

Its name was changed in 1904 to honor Nicasio Oroño, former mayor of Rosario and governor of Santa Fe, upon his death.

Pablo Vegetti

Pablo Ezequiel Vegetti Pfaffen (born October 15, 1988 in Santo Domingo (Santa Fe), Argentina) is an Argentine footballer who playing for Rangers of the Primera División in Chile.

Parque Tezozómoc

It is near the El Rosario residential neighborhood, and was built on the land of the former Hacienda del Rosario.

Presidio Chapel of San Elizario

The presidio was moved to the present site in 1790, to protect travelers and settlers along the Camino Real (Royal Highway) which ran from Mexico City through Paso del Norte to Santa Fe.

Ralph Levy

Levy died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, exactly fifty years to the day after the premiere of I Love Lucy, the pilot of which he had directed, although it was never shown to the public until decades later.

Raúl Uranga – Carlos Sylvestre Begnis Subfluvial Tunnel

Until the opening of the Rosario-Victoria Bridge, this was the only road link between two commercially important and populous regions of Argentina, and the only one between the two provinces (more to the south, Entre Ríos is connected to the province of Buenos Aires by the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge).

Roman Catholic Diocese of Rodez

At this time Conques, with Agen and Schelestadt in Alsace, was the centre of the cult of Saint Faith which soon spread to England, Spain, and America where many towns bear the name of Santa Fe.

Rosario Norte Station

From Rosario Norte the line continued to the northwest, crossing several provinces of Argentina to reach Tucumán.

Roxanne Guinoo

Roxanne Guinoo-Yap (born February 14, 1986, Rosario, Cavite) is a Filipina actress.

Ruy Diaz Melgarejo

Ruy Diaz Melgarejo (Salteras 1519 – Santa Fe 1602) was a miner, military, conqueror and statesman who established the Spanish Crown in the region of Río de la Plata in South America.

Soledad Pastorutti

Soledad "La Sole" Pastorutti (born October 12, 1980 in Arequito, Santa Fe) is an Argentine folk singer, who brought the genre to the younger generations at the end of the 20th century, and the beginning of the 21st.

Stringfellow Barr

Stringfellow Barr (January 15, 1897, Suffolk, Virginia – February 3, 1982, Alexandria, Virginia) was an historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he, together with Scott Buchanan, instituted the Great Books curriculum.

Tony Lagouranis

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and graduated from high school in 1987 in New York City, going on to study Ancient Greek as part of his degree program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Arabic at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.

University of Santo Tomas

Four of the University's structures are also declared National Cultural Treasures by the National Museum: Main Building, Arch of the Centuries, Santissimo Rosario Central Seminary, as well as the Grandstand and the University field.

Vincent Wetta

Wetta was born in Wichita, and lived in Wellington, where he worked as a conductor/engineer with the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway Company from 1966 to 2006.


see also

Fisherton Station

Antártida Argentina railway station in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, which was known as Fisherton Station until 1948