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Nueve de Julio Department, Santa Fe
The Nueve de Julio Department is an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the northwestern corner of the province, limiting with the Vera Department in the east, and with the San Cristobal Department in the south. To the north it limits with the province of Chaco, and to the west with the province of Santiago del Estero.
The department is the second largest in the province, but it has only about 28,000 inhabitants. The head town is Tostado . Other cities and towns are Esteban Rams, Gato Colorado, Gregoria Perez de Denis, Juan De Garay, Logrono, Montefiore, Pozo Borrado, San Bernardo, Santa Margarita, and Villa Minetti.
The name of this department corresponds to the date of the Argentine Declaration of Independence (9 July 1816) and is often spelled with the actual figure 9 (Departamento 9 de Julio).
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