The Belgrano Department (in
Spanish
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, ''Departamento Belgrano'') is an administrative subdivision (''
departamento
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'') of the
province
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of
Santa Fe,
Argentina
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. It is located in the southwest of the province. It limits with the departments of
San Martín (north),
San Jerónimo (northeast),
Iriondo (east), and
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(south); to the west it limits with the province of
Córdoba.
The department has about 41,000 inhabitants. Its head town is
Las Rosas
Las Rosas is a city in the southwest of the , located from the provincial capital. It has about 13,689 inhabitants as per the , and it is the head town of the Belgrano Department, which also comprises the municipalities of Armstrong, Bouquet, ...
(population 13,000). Other cities and towns are Armstrong, Bouquet, Las Parejas, Montes de Oca, and Tortugas.
The name of this department is an homage to General
Manuel Belgrano
Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano y González (3 June 1770 – 20 June 1820), usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano (), was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military leader. He ...
, the creator of the
Argentine flag
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.
References
Inforama- Municipalities of the Belgrano Department.
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Departments of Santa Fe Province