Rosario del Tala is a city in the center-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 Entre Ríos, Argentina. It has 12,801 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the Tala Department. It lies on the western banks of the

Gualeguay River The Gualeguay River (Spanish Río Gualeguay) is one of the major rivers of the Mesopotamic province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. Its source is in the north of the province, in the region between the cities of Federación and San José de Feliciano ...

, 179 km east-southeast from the provincial capital Paraná and 118 km due west from Colón. A populated settlement existed in the area already in the 1750s, but the town was officially founded on 7 July 1863 by decree of governor

Justo José de Urquiza Justo José de Urquiza y García (; October 18, 1801 – April 11, 1870) was an Argentine general and politician who served as president of the Argentine Confederation from 1854 to 1860. Life Justo José de Urquiza y García was b ...

References

* {{ar-mi-muni, ERI043
Rosario del Tala
at TurismoEntreRios.com. sur de entre rios Populated places in Entre Ríos Province Populated places established in 1863 1863 establishments in Argentina