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San Francisco, Cordoba
San Francisco is a city in the east of the province of Cordoba, Argentina, near the border with the province of Santa Fe, on the intersection of National Routes 19 and 158. It is the fourth most populated city in Cordoba, with about 59,000 inhabitants, and the head town of the San Justo Department.
History
The original town was founded on 9 September 1886 by Jose Bernardo Iturraspe, as part of a colonization plan of the provincial government. The current location of the city is slightly south from that settlement and dates from 1888, when the railroads of the Cordoba Central Railway reached the area. The town was declared a city in 1915. A large portion of the city's population is made up of immigrants from the region of Piemonte in Italy, and their descendants.
The running water service came only in the 1940s. It was also at this time that the city was connected by Route 19 with the provincial capital (Cordoba) and with Santa Fe. The old tracks of the Central Cordoba were removed in the 1960s from what had become the city center, which was modernized.
UN/LOCODE is ARSFO.
Notable natives
San Francisco is the birthplace of:
Former Ministry of Economy and presidential candidate Domingo Cavallo.
Tango singer Abel Cordoba.
Poet Rodolfo Godino.
Tennis player Mariano Puerta
Guillermo Acosta Economist
References
H.R.Stones, British Railways in Argentina 1860-1948, P.E.Waters & Associates, Bromley, Kent, England, 1993.
San Francisco Virtual Portal and official website of the municipality.
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