Empalme Villa Constitución (often shortened to Empalme) 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. It has 5,890 inhabitants as per the .
Overview
Empalme lies from the city of
Villa Constitución
Villa Constitución is a city in the Provinces of Argentina, province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe, Argentina, and the head town of the Constitución Department, Santa Fe, Constitución Department. It is located on the south-western banks of the ...
and south of
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 Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous ci ...
. Its name, which means ''junction'' in
Spanish
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, alludes to its location at the junction of the main Buenos Aires–Rosario railway and a short line coming from the port of Villa Constitución, which was opened in 1886.
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Populated places in Santa Fe Province
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