Santa Fe, Argentina

History

Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz was founded on the nearby site of Cayastá in 1573 by the conquistador Juan de Garay (1528-1583) The South American Republics, page 22 - "[...] it was not until 1573 that the Spaniards from Asuncion succeeded in founding a city south of the confluence of the Paraná and Paraguay. Santa Fé was the first Spanish settlement on the Plate in territory now a part of the Argentine Republic. [...] The man who led the creoles to the pampa was Juan de Garay, a Basque, who had been one of the soldiers in the army that conquered Peru." during an expedition which he led from Asunción (in present-day Paraguay) to the Paraná River. (Cayastá today has a historical park containing the grave of Hernandarias (1561-1634), the first American-born governor in South America.) The settlement was moved to the present site in 1653 due to the constant flooding of the Cayastá River. The city of Santa Fe became the provincial capital in 1814, when the territory of the province of Santa Fe was separated from the province of Buenos Aires by the National Constituent Assembly, held in the city in 1853.

Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz became the commercial and transportation center for a rich agricultural area that produces grain, vegetable oils, and meats. The city is the site of the National Technological University – Santa Fe Regional Faculty, Catholic University of Santa Fe (inaugurated in 1959), and the National University of the Littoral (first founded as the Provincial University in 1889, it adopted its current name in 1919).

A suspension bridge was completed in 1924, though severe flooding partially destroyed it in 1983 (a second bridge, the Oroño, was opened in 1971). The city's location is still not immune to flooding. On April 29, 2003, the Salado, which empties into the Paraná near Santa Fe, rose almost 2 m (6.5 ft) in a few hours following heavy rainfall, and caused a catastrophic flood. No fewer than 100,000 people had to be evacuated, and large sections of the city remained under water more than a week later. That year, the suspension bridge was reopened, and in 2008, the city's historic grain silos were converted into the Los Silos Hotel and Casino, and San Martín Street was converted to pedestrian use.

The city's historical role in the Argentine Constitution led national lawmakers to choose it as the site of Constitutional Conventions in 1949, 1957, and 1994.

File:Ex estacion de omnibus belgrano.jpg|Santa Fe rail station (1905), today the long-distance bus station File:Teatro Municipal de Santa Fe Argentina.JPG|Municipal Theater File:Casa de Gobierno de Santa Fe.jpg|Santa Fe Province Government House Building

Climate

The city has a climate considered as humid subtropical (Cfa, according to the Köppen climate classification, with a Cwa tendency). Winters are generally mild, though minimum temperatures can fall below 0 C on cold nights during the winter. Summers are generally hot and humid. During the most extreme heat waves, temperatures have exceeded 45 C. Temperatures have exceeded 35 C in every season.{{cite web

Rainfall can be expected throughout the year though summer is usually the wettest season. Thunderstorms can be intense with frequent lightning, powerful downdraughts and intense precipitation. The lowest record temperature was -7.0 C on June 13, 1967, while the highest recorded temperature was 45.6 C on January 25, 1986.

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The city

There is infrastructure for tourism that has been developed: river side bars and nightclubs, chic restaurants, the improvement of the major highways and a subfluvial tunnel.

Transport

Railway

Despite having had four railway stations, nowadays the city Santa Fe is not served by rail transport. The Mitre Railway station is no longer used since 2007, when defunct company Trenes de Buenos Aires cancelled its services to Santa Fe. Likewise, the Santa Fe Belgrano (built in 1891 and named Cultural Heritage) and Guadalupe stations had been entered into disuse in 1993 when the railway privatisation in Argentina ceased all the long-distance services in the country.

In the 2010s, the local municipality remodelled both stations as Guadalupe would be terminus for a new urban train.

The fourth station (also the oldest of all) had been built by French company Province of Santa Fe Railway in 1885. It was demolished in 1962 and replaced by a bus station.

Railway stations in the city of Santa Fe are:

Sports

Santa Fe put itself on the international sports map as one of the host cities of the 1990 FIBA World Championship. The games were played in the Estadio de la Facultad Regional Santa Fe. The Estadio Ángel Malvicino was one of the venues of the 2002 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship. Santa Fe also hosted the first ever Five-pin billiards World Championship in 1965.

The city is also home to two first division football teams: Club Atlético Colón and Club Atlético Unión, who contest the Santa Fe derby. Santa Fe was also the place where the world known Amílcar Brusa was born and raised, and the home of boxers Carlos Baldomir and Julio César Vásquez.

Notable natives

• Sebastián Caballero, football player
• Estanislao López, past Governor
• Carlos Thompson, actor
• Diego Bustos, journalist
• Norman Briski, actor and director
• Marcos Mundstock, actor and humorist
• Ariel Ramírez, musician and composer
• Ricardo Supisiche, artist
• Reine Flachot, cellist
• Liliana Bodoc, writer
• Osvaldo Bayer, writer
• Sergio Rubin, journalist
• Francisco Urondo, poet, writer and playwright
• Fernando Birri, film maker
• Carlos Baldomir, boxer
• Julio César Vásquez, boxer
• Carlos Delfino, basketball player
• Tayavek Gallizzi, basketball player
• Carlos Guastavino, pianist, composer
• Luciano De Cecco, volleyball player
• Victoria Mayer, volleyball player
• Germán Chiaraviglio, pole vaulter
• Arturo Kenny, polo player
• Rubén Rézola, sprint canoeist
• Santiago Grassi, swimmer
• Amelia Fournel, sport shooter
• Mario Schujovitzky, football player
• Enrique García, football player
• René Pontoni, football player
• Leopoldo Luque, football player
• Pedro Pablo Pasculli, football player
• Sebastián Battaglia, football player
• Juan Antonio Pizzi, football player, manager
• Carlos Reutemann, formula one driver and governor
• Alberto Armando, businessman and football manager
• Jorge Faurie, Diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Rogelio Pfirter, Diplomat
• Dominga Lucía Molina, activist

Sister cities

Santa Fe is twinned with:

• USA Santa Fe Springs, United States (1960)
• PAR Ypacaraí, Paraguay (1978)
• ITA Cuneo, Italy
• URU Montevideo, Uruguay
• ISR Afula, Israel

Gallery

File:Santa Fe, Argentina 2019 (letras).jpg|Santa Fe City Sign, Argentina File:Santa Fe Postal Panorámica.jpg|Santa Fe City's Skyline File:02 Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales de la UNL.jpg|Santa Fe at night File:Puente carretero Santa Fe.JPG|Santa Fe Carretero Bridge File:Catedral de Santa Fe.JPG|Santa Fe Cathedral File:Parquedelsurmonteagudo.JPG|Sur Park, Santa Fe

Notes

References

References

1. [http://www.infrapublica.com/index.php/noticias/item/1400-acondicionan-la-estacion-guadalupe-en-santa-fe-con-vistas-al-proyecto-de-tren-urbano "Acondicionan la Estación Guadalupe, en Santa Fe, con vistas al proyecto de tren urbano"], El Litoral, 2010
2. Nevertheless, the original project was not carried out. On the other hand, the Santa Fe Belgrano station was re-opened as a [[convention center]].[http://www.santafeciudad.gov.ar/ciudad/espacios_emblematicos/estacion_belgrano.html "Estación Belgrano"] on Government of Santa Fe website
3. ""Ferrocarril en Santa Fe"".
4. [http://www.elsantafesino.com/politica/2011/03/18/10432 "Puesta en valor de la Estación Guadalupe"] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-10-08 , El Santafesino, 18 Mar 2011)
5. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230910203105/https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/event/p/sid/2912/_/index.html 1990 World Championship for Men], Archive.FIBA.com, Retrieved 18 March 2016.
6. "Asuntos Federales y Electorales".