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, and it has 99,288 inhabitants according to the . The city lies on a branch of the Paraná River opposite the city of

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. As of 2005, the construction of a road link between the two cities is under study; at present there is no way to cross the multiple minor branches, streams and wetlands except by boat. Reconquista was founded on 27 April 1872 as a military fort, established by Colonel Manuel Obligado, in lands formerly belonging to the

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''Reducción San Jerónimo del Rey''. It was declared a city in 1921.

Climate

The

climate Climate is the long-term weather pattern in an area, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteorologi ...

of the region is wet subtropical (average in winter, in summer), with a mean annual

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of .

Transportation

The city is served by commercial airlines using the Reconquista Airport, served, as of 2018, by

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History

Reconquista was natively inhabited by the Abipones people according to accounts from

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Martin Dobrizhoffer. On November 22, 1872, the Governor

Simón de Iriondo Simón de Iriondo (1836–1883) was an Argentine politician of the National Autonomist Party, who was twice governor of the province of Santa Fe, from 1871 to 1874 and from 1878 to 1882. Iriondo was also the Government Minister of governor Ma ...

by Decree No. 430 authorizing the creation of a town a with the name of Reconquista. In 1998, there were a high number of leptospirosis cases were detected, coming from the area of Reconquista Central Hospital in Reconquista, Santa Fe province.

Notable residents

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: retired professional footballer * Laura Devetach, writer, was born here in 1936.Laura Devetach
Oxford Index, retrieved 6 February 2015 * Juan Gómez Taleb: professional footballer * Candela Ferro - television journalist

References

Municipalidad de Reconquista
(official website) * *

External links

Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina. City information, Photos, Tourism... www.portalreconquista.com.ar
Populated places in Santa Fe Province Paraná River Cities in Argentina {{SantaFeAR-geo-stub