San Carlos Centro is a city in the center of the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

of Santa Fe, Argentina, located from the provincial capital Santa Fe. It has 11,055 inhabitants as per the . Like most other towns in the

Las Colonias Department The Las Colonias Department (in Spanish, ''Departamento Las Colonias'') is an administrative subdivision (''departamento'') of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the center of the province. Starting from the east and going cloc ...

, San Carlos Centro was originally an agricultural colony, populated by European immigrants. It was founded in 1858 by Carlos Beck Bernard, of the Beck & Herzog Swiss Colonizing Society. The settlement received the category of ''comuna'' (village or commune) on 2 June 1886, and became a city (full-fledged

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) on 9 October 1986. The city preserves its historical past at the Historical Museum of the San Carlos Colony.

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Populated places in Santa Fe Province Cities in Argentina Argentina Santa Fe Province {{SantaFeAR-geo-stub