La Cruz (Corrientes)
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location | 29 ° 11 ′ S , 56 ° 39 ′ W | |
Height above d. M .: | 51 m | |
Population (2001): | 8591 | |
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administration | ||
Province : | Corrientes | |
Department : | San Martín | |
Mayor: | Carlos Emir Fagundez, UCR | |
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Postal code : | W3346 | |
Telephone code: | 03772 |
La Cruz is the capital of the eponymous department of San Martín in the province of Corrientes in northeast Argentina . In the classification of communes in the province of Corrientes, La Cruz is in the 2nd category.
history
La Cruz was founded in 1630 by the Jesuit Cristóbal Altamirano .
On June 15, 1947, a serious railway accident occurred near La Cruz : the international train of the British- owned Argentine North Eastern Railway from Buenos Aires , Argentina, to Asunción , Paraguay , collided with a cow , derailed and overturned. 20 people died.
Web links
- IFAM population data (Spanish) ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- lacruzcorrientes.com - Tourism and history (spanish) ( page no longer available , search web archives )
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 120.