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Santa Rosa, La Pampa

Field	Value
settlement_type	City
name	Santa Rosa
image_skyline	SantaRosa004.JPG
image_caption	Panoramic of Santa Rosa
mapsize	200px
pushpin_map	Argentina#Argentina La Pampa Province
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_type2	Department
subdivision_name	Argentina
subdivision_name1	La Pampa
subdivision_name2	Capital
leader_title	Intendant
leader_name	Luciano di Nápoli
established_title	Founded
established_date	22 April 1892
area_total_km2	1500
population_as_of	2010 census
population_urban	102,880
timezone1	ART
utc_offset1	−3
timezone1_DST
utc_offset1_DST
coordinates
elevation_m	175
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	L6300
blank_name	Phone code
blank_info	+54 2954
website	www.santarosa.gob.ar

Santa Rosa () is a city in the Argentine Pampas (lowlands), and the capital of La Pampa Province, Argentina. It lies on the east of the province, on the shore of the Don Tomás Lagoon, at the intersection of National Routes National Route 5 and National Route 35. The city (94,340) and its surroundings hold 102,610 inhabitants (),Census-ar 2.010 hold 124.101 inhabitants the capital y Toay around a third of the population of the province. Its current mayor is Luciano di Nápoli. Founded in 1892 by Tomás Mason, Santa Rosa did not develop into a relatively important agricultural centre until the second half of the 20th century. It is still one of the smallest provincial capitals of the country after Patagonian Rawson, Ushuaia and Viedma.

City sights include the Fitte neighbourhood (1930), the monument to San Martín, the Palace of Justice, the Teatro Español Theatre (1908), the Provincial Art Museum (with paintings by Raúl Soldi, Antonio Berni, Quinquela Martín and other important Argentine painters) and the Provincial Natural History Museum.

The Santa Rosa Airport is located 2 kilometres from Santa Rosa on Route 35, and serves regular flights to Buenos Aires.

Near Santa Rosa is the city of Toay, together both cities form the Gran Santa Rosa metropolitan area.

Geography

Street map of Santa Rosa downtown

Santa Rosa was founded on the western edge of the Argentine Pampas, in the range of contact of two different natural environments: the end of the plain and the beginning of the land of the Pampas broken valley.

The town occupies part of a centripetal basin having their base in Don Tomás Lagoon, where rainwater drains from the surrounding area. The floor area lies west of it, in hilly terrain where the highest elevations are in the east, with two small plateaus located 200 meters. This high turnover is also observed north, with heights up to 195 meters. From here the terrain descends to the west and south, with slopes that are steep in some areas, since more than 3%. The southwest sector is lower and less undulating area, descending to 167 masl.

Climate

Santa Rosa has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa (bordering on Cwa), according to the Köppen climate classification), with warm to hot summers and chilly, dry winters. The highest temperature recorded was 45.7 °C on January 6, 1955 while the record low is -12.7 °C on June 13, 1967.

|Jan record high C = 45.7 |Feb record high C = 42.2 |Mar record high C = 39.7 |Apr record high C = 36.5 |May record high C = 31.8 |Jun record high C = 27.1 |Jul record high C = 27.8 |Aug record high C = 34.4 |Sep record high C = 35.2 |Oct record high C = 38.4 |Nov record high C = 39.9 |Dec record high C = 42.8 |year record high C = 45.7 |Jan record low C = 0.9 |Feb record low C = 2.3 |Mar record low C = -3.7 |Apr record low C = -7.0 |May record low C = -8.6 |Jun record low C = -12.7 |Jul record low C = -12.3 |Aug record low C = -10.0 |Sep record low C = -8.8 |Oct record low C = -4.3 |Nov record low C = -1.2 |Dec record low C = 2.0 |year record low C = -12.7 | access-date = 29 April 2023 | archive-date = 3 March 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230303032103/https://ssl.smn.gob.ar/dpd/observaciones/estadisticas_normales_9120.zip | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230708235600/http://repositorio.smn.gob.ar/bitstream/handle/20.500.12160/2506/estad%C3%ADsticas_climatol%C3%B3gicas_normales_1991-2020.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y | archive-date = 8 July 2023 | access-date = 1 August 2023 | archive-date = 4 September 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170904022616/https://www2.smn.gob.ar/caracterizaci%C3%B3n-estad%C3%ADsticas-de-largo-plazo | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201031221057/ftp://ftp.atdd.noaa.gov/pub/GCOS/WMO-Normals/TABLES/REGIII/AG/87623.TXT | archive-date = 2020-10-31 | url-status = dead | access-date = March 30, 2015}} Meteo Climat (record highs and lows),

Sport

The city is home to football team, Club Atlético Santa Rosa, Club Atlético All Boys and Club Atlético Belgrano.

Image:SantaRosaArgentinaChurch.jpg|Church in Santa Rosa, Argentina. Image:MunicipalBuildingSantaRosaArgentina.jpg|Municipal Building, Santa Rosa, Argentina. Image:SantaRosa006.JPG|Monument to José de San Martín, Santa Rosa.

References

"Station Santa Rosa". Meteo Climat.
. (6 February 2024). ["Santa Rosa Aerodrome (Argentina)"](https://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?ind=87623&ano=2024&mes=2&day=7&hora=21&min=0&ndays=30). *OGIMET*.

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