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Encyclopedia > Santa Fe Province, Argentina
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Santa Fe is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. The capital is Santa Fe (population 369,000). Its more important cities are Rosario (population 908,000), Rafaela (83,000), Villa Gobernador Gálvez (74,000), Venado Tuerto (69,000), Reconquista (66,000) and Santo Tomé (58,000). The province has a population of 3,000,701 (2001), and covers an area of 133,007 km². Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Santiago del Estero. 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... 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. ... This article or section should include material from Rosario, Argentina This is an article about a city in Argentina. ... For other uses, see Reconquista (Disambiguation). ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... There are things that have the name Chaco: South America: Gran Chaco, a region in South America Chaco Province, Argentina in the northeastern part of the country Chaco, a region in Paraguay Chaco Department, historical in Paraguay and proposed in Bolivia Gran Chaco Province, Bolivia (in Tarija Department) Chaco War... Categories: Argentina geography stubs | Argentine provinces ... 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. ... Categories: Argentine provinces | Buenos Aires province | Argentina geography stubs ... Map of Argentina highlighting Córdoba. ... Map of Argentina highlighting the province Santiago del Estero is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. ...


Among the economical activities of the province, the most remarcable are agriculture (especially soy and wheat), and various industries, remarcably agricultural machinery, dairy products, vegetal oil refineries and biogenetical investigation. Binomial name Glycine max Soybeans (US) or soya beans (UK) (Glycine max) are a high-protein legume (Family Fabaceae) grown as food for both humans and livestock. ... Species T. boeoticum T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat (Triticum spp) is a grass that is cultivated around the world. ...


The provincial government is divided in the usual three branches: the executive, headed by a Governor, popularly elected for non-reelection four-year terms, who appoint the cabinet; the legislative, formed by a bi-cameral legislature (a 50-member Chamber of Deputies and a 19-member Senate, all elected for four-year terms); and the judiciary, headed by the Supreme Court and completed by several inferior tribunals.


The province is divided in 19 departments (Spanish: departamentos)

Departament Population Area Head town
Belgrano 41.449 2.386 km² Las Rosas
Caseros 79.096 3.449 km² Casilda
Castellanos 162.165 6.600 km² Rafaela
Constitución 83.045 3.225 km² Villa Constitución
Garay 19.913 3.964 km² Helvecia
General López 182.113 11.558 km² Melincué
General Obligado 166.436 10.928 km² Reconquista
Iriondo 65.486 3.184 km² Cañada de Gómez
La Capital 489.505 3.055 km² Santa Fe
Las Colonias 95.202 6.439 km² Esperanza
9 de Julio 28.273 16.870 km² Tostado
Rosario 1.121.441 1.890 km² Rosario
San Cristóbal 64.935 14.850 km² San Cristóbal
San Javier 29.912 6.929 km² San Javier
San Jerónimo 77.253 4.282 km² Coronda
San Justo 40.379 5.575 km² San Justo
San Lorenzo 142.097 1.867 km² San Lorenzo
San Martín 60.698 4.860 km² Sastre
Vera 51.303 21.096 km² Vera


Categories: Stub ... This article or section should include material from Rosario, Argentina This is an article about a city in Argentina. ... San Lorenzo is Italian and Spanish for Saint Lawrence. ... José de San Martín ( 25 February 1778 - 17 August 1850) was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South Americas successful struggle for independence from Spain. ...




  Results from FactBites:
 
Santa Fe, Argentina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (443 words)
Santa Fe is the capital city of province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
Santa Fe is the commercial and transportation center for a rich agricultural area that produces grain, vegetable oils, and meats.
Santa Fe is linked to Rosario (170 km to the south), the largest city in the province, by the Brigadier Estanislao López Highway and by National Route 11, which continues south towards Buenos Aires.
Santa Fe Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1362 words)
Santa Fe is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country.
After the organization of the nation, the province entered an era of peace and prosperity; in 1872 the railways already connected many points of the province, as well as the telegraph lines, and in 1889 the Universidad de Santa Fe was founded.
Twenty-one percent of the cultivated lands of Argentina are in Santa Fe, whose main crops are soybean (main national producer), sunflower, maize, wheat and rice.
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