Bernardo de Irigoyen is a town (''comuna'') in the center-east 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. It has 1,899 inhabitants as per the . It is located south-southwest from the provincial capital Santa Fe, on Provincial Route 10. The town was founded in 1886, as the

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– Tucumán railway reached the area. It was named after diplomat and politician

Bernardo de Irigoyen Bernardo de Irigoyen (December 18, 1822 – December 27, 1906) was an Argentine lawyer, diplomat and politician. Biography Born in Buenos Aires, Irigoyen enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires and earned a ''juris doctor'' in 1843. He was ...

, who donated lands for the town. It gained the official status of commune in 1923. Bernardo de Irigoyen hosts an annual Bronc Riding and Folk Music Festival, in the second half of February, and celebrates the day of its patron, the Nativity of the Child Virgin Mary, on 8 September.

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* * Populated places in Santa Fe Province {{SantaFeAR-geo-stub