Arequito is a town (''comuna'') in the south of the
province
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of
Santa Fe, Argentina, southwest from the
provincial capital
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and west of
Rosario. It has a population of about 7,000 inhabitants as per the .
The town was founded initially as a waystop (''posta'') by Braulio Areco in 1778. He ended up using a
diminutive of his surname because there were already two ''postas de Areco'' in Buenos Aires (
Carmen de Areco
Carmen de Areco is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative centre for Carmen de Areco Partido.
History
In 1779, Viceroy Vértiz ordered Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Bergezé de Ducás to reinforce the line of defence ...
and
San Antonio de Areco
San Antonio de Areco is a city in northern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and administrative seat of the partido of San Antonio de Areco. It is located on the Areco River away from Buenos Aires city, the country's capital.
San Antonio de A ...
). It became a colonist settlement, and in time it was recognized officially as a town, on 1 June 1891. The area received an important influx of
immigration
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(mostly from Europe, and also
Syrian-Lebanese) during the second half of the 19th century, and became a highly productive agricultural area. Since 1970 it produces
soybean
The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (''Glycine max'') is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.
Traditional unfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, from which tofu a ...
(the town is the seat of the National Festival dedicated to this crop, held every October).
Arequito became nationally known in the 1990s as the hometown of the young
folk singer and composer Soledad Pastorutti
Soledad "La Sole" Pastorutti (born October 12, 1980, in Arequito, Santa Fe) is an Argentine folk singer, who brought the genre to the younger generations at the end of the 20th century, and the beginning of the 21st.
She is also a film and T ...
.
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History of Arequito
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Populated places in Santa Fe Province