Rosario (Santa Fe)

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Rosario
Rosario monu bandera.jpg
Basic data
Surface: 179 km 2
location 32 ° 57 ′  S , 60 ° 39 ′  W Coordinates: 32 ° 57 ′  S , 60 ° 39 ′  W
Height above d. M .: 23  m
Population (2010): 948.312
Density: 5298 inhabitants / km²
Agglomeration : Gran Rosario
  - Population: 1,250,000
  (Argentina)
 
 
administration
Province : Santa FeSanta Fe Santa Fe
Department : Rosario
Mayor: Pablo Javkin
Others
Postal code : S2000
Telephone code: 0341
Rosario website
map
Location of Rosario
coat of arms

With 948,312 inhabitants (2010, INDEC ), Rosario is the third largest city in Argentina after Buenos Aires and Córdoba and an important industrial center. The city is located 300 km northwest of Buenos Aires on the western bank of the Paraná . Rosario is the capital of the department of the same name and is located in the center of the most important Argentine industrial corridor. Its suburbs and neighboring cities form a metropolitan area with 1,121,441 inhabitants.

The city is an important rail hub and the shipping hub for northeast Argentina. Ocean liners reach the city via the Paraná, which enables the existence of a ten meter deep harbor. A bridge over the Paraná was opened in 2003 to connect Rosario to Victoria across the Paraná delta.

geography

The city is located on the Río Paraná in the south of the province of Santa Fe . Several suburbs stretch along the river, so the built-up area between Alvear and San Lorenzo is about 50 kilometers long. Despite its size, the city is only the capital of the department named after it , the provincial capital is Santa Fe, 170 km north of Rosario .

history

Permanent settlement in the area of ​​today's Rosario began in the 17th century. The first landowner was Luis Romero de Pineda and the first official colonial settlement was initiated by Santiago de Montenegro, who was appointed mayor of the settlement in 1751. There is no specific date of foundation, the city developed slowly in the 18th century from a small settlement around a chapel of the Virgin of Rosario, from which the city got its name ( rosario, Spanish for rosary ). In 1811 a military battalion was established in the north of what is now the city, where General Manuel Belgrano hoisted the flag of Argentina for the first time a year later . A monumental monument in the center reminds of this act today.

On the other hand, the city only began to grow in the second half of the 19th century, especially from 1880, when European immigration to Argentina was made easier, which resulted in an influx of hundreds of thousands to Rosario. At the end of the 19th century, Rosario had large, eight-story high granaries, three foundries, five sawmills, five steam grain mills, four tanneries, three breweries, five printing works, a brick kiln and a manufacture of electric bells and jam. There were five clubs, including one German. In 1887 the population was 50,914.

Population development of the city

year population
1980 794.127
1991 907.718
2001 908.163
2010 948.312

politics

Rosario is the only major city in Argentina in which socialism plays an important role in local politics. Since 1989 the city has been ruled by the mayors of the Partido Socialista Popular and the successor party Partido Socialista . After Héctor Cavallero (1989–1995), Hermes Binner (1995–2003) and Miguel Lifschitz (2003–2011), the current mayor Mónica Fein also belongs to the Socialist Party. Since Hermes Binner's election as governor in 2007, the provincial government of Santa Fe has also been led by the socialists in an alliance with the Unión Cívica Radical .

Since 1997, Rosario has been a human rights city according to Shulamith Koenig's ideas .

economy

Above all, Rosario is an industrial and commercial center. Its port , navigable for ocean-going ships , is the second most important in the country, from here mainly products from the north of Argentina and Bolivia are shipped. Another important factor in the economy is the automotive industry . The Argentine General Motors plant is located in the suburb of Alvear . The American agricultural machinery and engine manufacturer John Deere , who operates a production facility in the northern suburb of Granadero Baigorria , should also be mentioned.

education

Rosario is an important educational center on a national and international level. Rosario has been the seat of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and a regional faculty of the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) since 1968 , both of which are state-owned and free of charge. The city is also home to the private institutions Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) , which, among other things, established the city's first law faculty, the Universidad Austral , the Universidad del Centro Educativo Latinamericano (UCEL) and the Universidad Abierta Interamericana (UAI) .

According to a state survey in 2008, around a third of the city's population was illiterate.

Culture and church

Rosario has earned its reputation as a cultural center primarily in music. Alongside Buenos Aires and Montevideo , the city is one of the cradles of tango , which developed in the immigrant milieu at the end of the 19th century. In the 1970s, several folklore styles and rock music developed into an independent genre known as Trova Rosarina, which was successful across the country.

The Rosario International Poetry Festival was founded in 1993 and has been held every September since then.

In October 2008, construction began on an approx. 3 hectare building complex on the banks of the Río Paraná, which will be carried out according to the plans of the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer . It includes a concert hall for 2,500 and an open-air stadium for 25,000 spectators.

In addition, Rosario is the city with the highest density of theaters in the country, and the film production, even if it is not comparable to that in Buenos Aires , should not be underestimated (for example the box office hit “El Asadito”).

Rosario is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rosario with the Cathedral of Nuestra Señora del Rosario ; Archbishop José Luis Mollaghan has been since 2005 .

Sports

Rosario is home to two of the most important football clubs in Argentina: Rosario Central (founded in 1889) and Newell's Old Boys (1903). Newell's Old Boys is the home club of world star Lionel Messi (now FC Barcelona), who has been voted World Player of the Year six times so far . Messi is from Rosario.

traffic

port

The seaworthy port of Rosarios is located in the southeast of the city on the Río Paraná . It used to be the economic engine of the city and is one of the most important ports in Argentina. In particular, agricultural, but also industrial products are shipped from the northern region of Argentina. However, the port of Rosario suffers from silting and has to be cleared periodically.

Rail transport

Rosario was once one of the centers of the Argentine rail traffic and owned several important train stations. Since 1990 passenger traffic has almost come to a standstill due to the privatization of rail traffic, trains only run to Buenos Aires , Córdoba , Santa Fe and San Miguel de Tucumán , although the number of connections is very low. The rail network is currently being partially renewed so that new and faster connections are possible. The former Rosario Central train station has now been converted into a park.

It is planned to connect the three largest cities in Argentina Buenos Aires, Rosario and Córdoba with a high-speed train . The construction of the Cobra project has, however, been delayed again and again for years.

Local transport

Local public transport today is handled exclusively by buses and trolleybuses , some of which drive in the city and some in the surrounding area.

air traffic

The Rosario Airport is located about ten kilometers west of the center near the district Fisherton. It mainly offers connections within Argentina, as well as connections to Uruguay , Brazil , Peru and Chile . Most of the long-distance traffic is handled by intercity buses, the Mariano Moreno bus station is three kilometers from the center.

Road traffic

The bridge from Rosario to Victoria (2013)

A city motorway, the Avenida Circunvalación, runs around the downtown area of ​​Rosario . Rosario is connected to Santa Fe and Buenos Aires by motorways, and a motorway to Cordoba is also under construction . Other national roads go in a star shape from the city to Tucumán , Mendoza , Río Cuarto and Santa Rosa de Toay .

A bridge between Rosario and Victoria ( Entre Ríos province ) over the Río Paraná was built from 1998 to 2002. In April 2002 it was 95 percent complete. The Argentine economic crisis delayed the project so that the Puente Rosario-Victoria could only be opened to traffic on May 22, 2003. It forms an important element in the internal Argentine trade and is one of only four traffic routes over (or under) the Río Paraná (the others are at Zárate , Santa Fe and Corrientes ). In addition, the bridge is an important junction for the Mercosur states, as it connects the southeastern part of Brazil with the rest of Argentina and from there one has trunk connections to Chile / Pacific.

Climate table

Rosario
Climate diagram
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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: wetterkontor.de
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Rosario
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 31.4 30.5 27.7 23.4 19.1 15.7 15.5 17.1 20.2 23.2 27.0 29.7 O 23.3
Min. Temperature (° C) 19.4 19.0 17.3 14.1 10.7 7.0 6.9 7.4 9.7 12.1 15.1 17.7 O 13
Precipitation ( mm ) 121 113 156 85 49 38 38 37 55 100 106 107 Σ 1.005
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 9.5 8.8 7.5 6.8 5.8 5.0 5.2 6.1 6.9 7.7 9.0 9.1 O 7.3
Rainy days ( d ) 8th 7th 8th 6th 5 4th 3 4th 5 8th 7th 7th Σ 72
Humidity ( % ) 69 74 77 80 81 82 81 76 73 72 69 68 O 75.2
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Source: wetterkontor.de

sons and daughters of the town

Town twinning

Rosario lists the following 23 twin cities :

city country since
Alessandria ItalyItaly Piedmont, Italy 1988
Asunción ParaguayParaguay Paraguay 1993
Barcelona SpainSpain Catalonia, Spain
Bilbao SpainSpain Basque Country, Spain 1988
Caracas VenezuelaVenezuela Venezuela 1998
Concepción ChileChile Chile
Cuenca EcuadorEcuador Azuay, Ecuador 2011
Dakar SenegalSenegal Senegal 1998
Haifa IsraelIsrael Israel 1988
Imperia ItalyItaly Liguria, Italy 1987
Kuwait City KuwaitKuwait Kuwait 2011
Manizales ColombiaColombia Colombia 1998
Medellin ColombiaColombia Antioquia, Colombia 2011
Monterrey MexicoMexico Nuevo León, Mexico 1993
Montevideo UruguayUruguay Uruguay 1998
Piraeus GreeceGreece Attica, Greece 1993
Pisco PeruPeru Ica, Peru 1986
Porto Alegre BrazilBrazil Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 1994
Santa Cruz de la Sierra BoliviaBolivia Bolivia 1998
Santiago de Cuba CubaCuba Cuba 1993
Santo Domingo Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Dominican Republic 1998
Shanghai China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China East China, People's Republic of China 1997
Turin ItalyItaly Piedmont, Italy 2013
Valparaíso ChileChile Chile 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ INDEC: 2010 census, according to the REDATAM database ( online access ( memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
  2. ↑ Santa Fe (Argentina): Departments & Localities - Population Statistics, Charts and Map. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Many of the residents of Rosario are illiterate . In: http://www.tageblatt.com.ar . Argentinisches Tageblatt , May 24, 2008, page 2. Retrieved June 15, 2008.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tageblatt.com.ar  
  4. ↑ Oscar Niemeyer is still building when he is 100 years old . Retrieved December 30, 2008.
  5. ↑ Relaciones bilaterales ǀ Sitio de la Municipalidad de Rosario. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .

Web links

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