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3 unusual facts about Santa Fe Province


Autonomous city

Another large city that is currently pressing for autonomy is Rosario, in Santa Fe Province.

DKW 3=6

DKW vehicles were also made in Argentina from 1960 through 1969 by IASF S.A. (Industria Automotriz Santa Fe Sociedad Anónima) in the city of Sauce Viejo, Santa Fe.

Parque Alem

The Parque Alem (Alem Park, full name Parque Leandro Nicéforo Alem) is a large public park in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina.


Alberto Acosta

Born in Arocena, Santa Fe Province, Acosta started playing professionally at Unión de Santa Fe, making his top division debut one month shy of his 20th birthday, in a 0–0 home draw against Argentinos Juniors.

Antonio Corti

Hugo Antonio Corti (born June 3, 1963 in San Martin, Sante Fé) is a retired boxer from Argentina, who competed in the middleweight division (– 71 kg).

Claudio Enría

Claudio Marcelo Enría (born 28 August 1973 in San Justo, Santa Fe) is an Argentine football striker who most recently played for Colón de Santa Fe.

Cristian Darío Álvarez

Born in General Lagos, Santa Fe, Álvarez came through the youth ranks at hometown side Rosario Central, making his first-team debuts in a Copa Libertadores game against Paraguayan side Cerro Porteño on 23 February 2006, a 0–2 home loss.

Ethnography of Argentina

Italians became firmly established throughout Argentina, but the greatest concentrations are in the City of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires Province, Santa Fe Province, Entre Rios Province, Córdoba Province, Tucumán Province, La Pampa Province and, in the nearby country of Uruguay.

Federalist

The 1831 Federal Pact between Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos and Santa Fe Provinces opposed a military alliance to the League and ultimately defeated it during 1832, its former members joining the Federal Pact into a loose confederation of Provinces known as the Argentine Confederation.

Héctor Zelada

Héctor Miguel Zelada Bertoqui (born April 30, 1957 in Maciel, Santa Fe) is a former Argentine football goalkeeper.

Jorge Griffa

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

Julián Magallanes

Born in Arequito, Caseros, Santa Fe Province, Magallanes started his professional career at the province capital, for Tiro Federal.

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).

Leonardo Biagini

Born in Arroyo Seco, Santa Fe Province, Biagini started his career at Newell's Old Boys in the Argentine first division, in 1993.

Marcos Sastre

The town of Sastre, in Santa Fe Province, street names in several Argentine cities and a school on the Reconquista River, in the town of Tigre, are named after him.

Nelson Vivas

Nelson David Vivas (born 18 October 1969 in Granadero Baigorria, Santa Fe, Argentina) is a former professional Argentine football player, who played primarily as right-back.

Otto Bemberg

Bemberg obtained commissions from Presidents Bartolomé Mitre and Nicolás Avellaneda for the establishment of agricultural colonies in the then-practically undeveloped Santa Fe Province, the site of some of the country's most productive cropland.

Quinto River

During the rainy season the Quinto's waters sometimes rise sufficiently to reach Santa Fé and Buenos Aires Provinces and sometimes even as far as the Salado River basin.

Rubén Ayala

Born in Humboldt, Las Colonias Department, Santa Fe Province, Ayala played club football for Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro in Argentina where he was part of the team that famously went unbeaten for the whole of the 1972 Nacional championship.

San Justo tornado

The San Justo Tornado was a tornado which struck San Justo, a town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, on January 10, 1973.

Sebastián Cuattrin

Sebastián Cuattrin (born September 6, 1973 in Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina) is an Argentine Brazilian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade).

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.


see also

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.

Tessio

Griselda Tessio (born 1946), Argentine politician, Vice-Governor of Santa Fe province since 2007