Apóstoles

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Apóstoles
Escudo de Apóstoles (Misiones) .svg
Basic data
Surface: 316 km 2
location 27 ° 55 ′  S , 55 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 27 ° 55 ′  S , 55 ° 45 ′  W
Height above d. M .: 151  m
Population (2010): 42,457
Density: 134 inhabitants / km²
  (Argentina)
 
 
administration
Province : MisionesMisiones Misiones
Department : Apóstoles
Mayor: Mario Ramón Vialey
Others
Postal code : 3758
Telephone code: 3350
Apóstoles website
map
Location of Apóstoles

Apóstoles is a city in northeast Argentina . It is the administrative center of the Apóstoles Department in the southwest of the Misiones province . Apóstoles has 42,457 inhabitants (2010) and has been a 1st class municipality since 1963.

Fiesta Nacional de la Yerba Mate in Apóstoles

geography

Apóstoles is located 27 km from the Brazilian border. The road Ruta Provincial 1 runs through the city in a north-south direction as an extension of the Ruta Nacional 105 , which connects the city with the center of the provincial capital Posadas , 75 km to the north . The capital of Argentina Buenos Aires is 1000 km southwest.

economy

The main branch of the city's economy is agricultural production, especially the cultivation of mate bushes , followed by animal husbandry, horticulture and the production of animal products. Rice is also grown on a smaller scale. There are 22 companies with a total of over 500 jobs that are involved in the production and marketing of mate tea .

history

The first settlement on the soil of today's Apóstoles was built in August 1633 as a Jesuit reduction and was destroyed again by the Brazilians. On July 2, 1816, the battle of Apóstoles took place as part of the Luso-Brazilian or Portuguese invasion of the town .

With a first wave of immigration in 1897 came the first colonists, six Ukrainian and six Polish families who rebuilt the village. Since then, the oldest Ukrainian colony in Argentina has been located in Apóstoles. The peasant families from Galicia originally intended to emigrate to the United States , but because of problems with the American immigration authorities, they finally applied for immigration to Argentina, which was also granted. They arrived at the port of Buenos Aires in Argentina in June 1897 and were sent by the Argentine authorities to settle in the province of Misiones, the northernmost and at that time almost unpopulated region of Argentina, where they arrived on August 27, 1897. The existing subtropical forest and the pampas were to be turned into agricultural land and therefore 50 hectares of government land were sold to the immigrants  . They were also given food, seeds, agricultural implements and other support.

The official establishment of the community took place on November 28, 1913. The city has a Ukrainian Basilian monastery with a printing press, a Ukrainian elementary school and an Argentinian-Ukrainian cultural association. The Fiesta Nacional de la Yerba Mate takes place annually in Apóstoles .

population

In 2010 the community had 42,457 inhabitants, of which 21,015 were men and 21,442 women. In 1980, 11,000 people, 3,000 of them of Ukrainian origin, lived in Apóstoles.

1980 1991 2001 2010
11,000 19,754 26,858 42,457

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Apóstoles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d General information about the city on the Apóstoles website; accessed on March 29, 2017 (Spanish)
  2. Distances to Apóstoles on the Apóstoles website; accessed on March 29, 2017 (Spanish)
  3. Economics of Apóstoles on the Apóstoles website; accessed on March 29, 2017 (Spanish)
  4. a b History of the city on the Apóstoles website; accessed on March 29, 2017 (Spanish)
  5. La Batalla de Apóstoles , on the Apóstoles website; accessed on March 29, 2017 (Spanish)
  6. a b c Entry on Apóstoles in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 29, 2017 (English)
  7. ^ Entry Argentina in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 29, 2017 (English)