Esperanza (Santa Fe)
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| Surface: | 289 km 2 | ||
| location | 31 ° 27 ′ S , 60 ° 56 ′ W | ||
| Height above d. M .: | 38 m | ||
| Population (2010): | 40.125 | ||
| Density: | 139 inhabitants / km² | ||
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 Santa Fe
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| Department : | Las Colonias | ||
| Mayor: | Ana Meiners | ||
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| Postal code : | 3080 | ||
| Telephone code: | 03496 | ||
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The city of Esperanza is located in the Las Colonias department in the province of Santa Fe in Argentina , about 40 km west of the provincial capital, Santa Fe . It has about 40,000 inhabitants (as of 2010).
history
The first settlers to come to Esperanza were Germans, Swiss, French, Belgians and Luxembourgers. These approximately 200 families arrived between late January and early June 1856. Each of the colonist families received about 33 hectares of land. The German-speaking families settled west and the French-speaking families in the east of the designated area.
A first election was held on May 12, 1861, and five representatives from each of the two cantons (German and French) were elected to the city parliament.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Ernst Albert Koch (1899–1973), German librarian
- Moisés Julio Blanchoud (1923–2016), Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Salta
- Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer (1935–2002), writer
- Sebastian Spreng (* 1956), visual artist and music journalist
literature
- Adolf N. Schuster: Sounds of home from the Silberstrom. Historical-geographical sketch of the Swiss colonies in Argentina , in: Annual reports of the Geographical-Ethnographic Society in Zurich / Volume 12 (1911–1912), pp. 97 ff. ( Digitized version )
Web links
Commons : Esperanza - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Data from the Ministry of the Interior on Esperanza (2001) ( Memento of April 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )