The Greater Rosario is the metropolitan area of the city of Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. This metropolis has a population of about 1.2 million (1,121,441 in the 2001 census), thus being Argentina's third most populated urban settlement, after Buenos Aires and Greater Córdoba. A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs. ... Rosario viewed from a point above the Paraná River Rosario is the largest city of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and the third most populous in the country, after Córdoba and Buenos Aires. ... Argentina consists of 23 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia), and 1 federal district (Capital Federal *). Capital Federal * Buenos Aires Catamarca Chaco Chubut Córdoba Corrientes Entre Ríos Formosa Jujuy La Pampa La Rioja Mendoza Misiones Neuquén Río Negro Salta San Juan San Luis Santa Cruz Santa Fe Santiago... Categories: Argentina geography stubs | Argentine provinces ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Buenos Aires (Good Airs in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America. ... Avenida Colón, Córdoba Córdoba is a city located in the foothills of the Sierra Chica mountains on the Suquía river, the center of Argentinas most productive agricultural area. ...

The Greater Rosario comprises Rosario itself (population about 910,000) and a large area around it, spreading in all directions except eastward (because of the Paraná River). Directly to the south it includes the city of Villa Gobernador Gálvez, with a population of about 75,000, at about 10 km from the center of Rosario. Overlooking the Paraná River from Encarnación, Paraguay. ...

To the east and south-east there are several smaller towns and cities (Funes, Roldán, Pérez, Soldini); Roldán is 23 km from Rosario's center. These settlements were incorporated into the metropolis due to their vicinity to major roads leading into Rosario, and many people living there habitually commute to Rosario. Commuting is the process of traveling between a place of residence and a place of work. ...

The farthest end is to the north, following the coast of the river; from Rosario one finds, in succession and usually merging into each other, the towns of Granadero Baigorria, Capitán Bermúdez, Fray Luis Beltrán, San Lorenzo (already in a different departamento, with a population of over 50,000), and Puerto General San Martín, the last being at a distance of 35 km from Rosario. This northward extension makes up one end of an area traditionally called Cordón Industrial ("Industrial Cord"), since it was traditionally a heavily industrialized productive region (though the economic crisis of the 1990s largely dismantled the industrial infrastructure, now in recovery). The Argentine economic crisis was part of the situation that affected Argentinas economy during the late 1990s and early 2000s. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ...

The Greater Rosario has a fluid short-distance transportation schemes. Several of Rosario's urban bus lines cross the limits of the city into the neighboring towns (keeping the common urban fee), and many low-cost interurban short-distance lines depart at regular intervals from the Bus Terminal and the transport node at Plaza Sarmiento.

The metropolitan area is also a node of national and international transportation. Major roads and highways sprout from Rosario's Avenida de Circunvalación, originally a city-encircling two-way avenue, going north through the towns already mentioned and towards the provincial capital, Santa Fe. To the south, the roads cross the provincial border and the Industrial Cord continues up to San Nicolás, Buenos Aires. To the west, a national highway is being built, ultimately to reach the city of Córdoba; and to the east, the metropolis communicates with the neighboring Entre Ríos (and from there Uruguay and Brazil) through the recently finished cable-stayed Rosario-Victoria bridge. See also Transportation in Argentina. Santa Fe, is a city in northeastern Argentina, It is the capital of the Santa Fe Province, near the junction of the Parana and Salado rivers, opposite the city of Parana, to which Santa Fe is linked by a sub-fluvial tunnel inaugurated in 1973. ... Avenida Colón, Córdoba Córdoba is a city located in the foothills of the Sierra Chica mountains on the Suquía river, the center of Argentinas most productive agricultural area. ... Map of Argentina highlighting the province Entre Ríos is a province of Argentina, it lays and borders north of Buenos Aires Province, south of Corrientes Province, east of Santa Fe Province, and west of Uruguay. ... The cable-stayed Rosario-Victoria Bridge, spanning the Paraná River Rosario-Victoria bridge (in Spanish, Puente Rosario-Victoria) is the informal name of the physical connection between the Argentine cities of Rosario (province of Santa Fe) and Victoria (province of Entre Ríos). ... Argentina has a complex net of routes, crossed by long distance buses, and a number of national and international airports. ...