Acebal, Santa Fe
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Acebal is a town (''comuna'') in the south of the
province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
of Santa Fe, Argentina, from
Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the ParanĂ¡ River. Rosario is the third-most populous ci ...
and south of the provincial capital Santa Fe. It has 4,814 inhabitants per the . The town was founded in 1890 by Amador Acebal. The local administration was formally created on 19 December 1895. The land where the town is today belonged to Amador Acebal and his wife, MarĂ­a Saa Pereyra de Acebal. And they donated them to the then Central Argentine Railway for the laying of the tracks of the Rosario - Peyrano line . The couple made it a condition that a station be established within their fields, inaugurated in February 1891. Months before, on July 22, 1890, a decree from the Santa Fe Government approved the plans for the newly founded town. Later, on December 19, 1895, the Development Commission was created. It is known as the national footwear capital. The sector represents almost 60 percent of the town's activity. In 2017, the drop in sales and imports reduced production to less than half, causing a serious crisis.


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* * Populated places in Santa Fe Province The Acebal Train Station & a statue of San Martin in Acebal, Santa Fe, Argentina {{SantaFeAR-geo-stub