Rosario
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Rosario is the largest city Santa Fe Province, Argentina, and the second most populous in the country, with approximately 1 million inhabitants. It is located 300 km north of Buenos Aires on the Paraná River.
In colonial times, the city was known as Villa del Rosario. Along with Paraná, it is one of the few Argentine cities that cannot point to a particular known individual as its founder. The city's patron saint is the Virgen del Rosario (feast: October 7).
The Flag Memorial marks the site where, on February 27 1812, General Manuel Belgrano first raised the Argentine flag on the shores of the Paraná. Because of this, Rosario is known as the "Cradle of the Argentine Flag".
It is seat of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (founded 1968) and the football (soccer) teams Rosario Central (founded 1889) and Newell's Old Boys (founded 1903).
The city has three notable newspapers: La Capital (Argentina's oldest newspaper, founded 1867), El Ciudadano & la Región (founded 1999) and Rosario/12 (founded 1991).
The International Congress of the Spanish Language was held in Rosario on November 2004.
Much of Rosario's population lives in extreme poverty, mostly in slums lacking toilets or running water.
Notable people from Rosario
- Leticia Cossetini
- Olga Cossetini
- Antonio Berni
- Lucio Fontana
- Roberto Fontanarrosa
- Che Guevara
- Libertad Lamarque
- Alberto Olmedo
- Juan Carlos Baglietto
- Fito Páez
- Liliana Herrero
- Lisandro de la Torre
- Rafael Bielsa
External links
- Municipality of Rosario (in Spanish)
- Turismo in Rosario (in Spanish)
- Government of Santa Fe Province (in Spanish)
- III Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española (in Spanish)
- Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) (in Spanish)
- Diario La Capital (Newspaper from Rosario, in Spanish)
- Diario El Ciudadano & la Región (Newspaper from Rosario, in Spanish)
- Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario (BCR) (Commodities market in Rosario, in Spanish)
Rosario is also a town in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
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