The Rosario Department (in

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, ''Departamento Rosario'') is an administrative subdivision (''

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'') of the . It is located on the south of the province, with its eastern border coinciding with the provincial border along the

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. It has an area of and a population of 1.3 million, with a population density of about 700 inhabitants/km². This department is the most populated in the province (comprising more than one third of the total population). The department's head town is the city of

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; most of the population is concentrated in its

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(

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), which reaches north into the neighboring

San Lorenzo Department The San Lorenzo Department (in Spanish, ''Departamento San Lorenzo'') is an administrative subdivision (''departamento'') of Santa Fe Province, Argentina. It is located in the south of the province. It limits with the populous Rosario Department an ...

. Other important cities and towns are

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Granadero Baigorria Granadero Baigorria is a city in the south of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, located directly north of Rosario, on the western shore of the Paraná River, and forming part of the Greater Rosario metropolitan area. Its population is about ...

, Funes,

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, Zavalla, Pueblo Nuevo, Villa Diego,

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, Villa Amelia, Acebal,

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, Arroyo Seco, Fighiera, and

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. Limiting the Rosario Department to the south is the Constitución Department (whose head town is

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) and to the east and north, the

(head town

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). On the eastern border, along the Paraná River, is the heart of the Industrial Corridor, a productive area with a concentration of light industries (such as soybean oil and pod processing) and major ports.

References

''In Spanish.''
Government of the Province of Santa Fe

Inforama] - Municipalities of the Rosario Department. * {{Authority control Rosario Department, Departments of Santa Fe Province