San Justo is a city in the center region 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, 99 km north from the provincial capital. It had about 22,000 inhabitants at the and it is the head town of the San Justo Department. Founded in 1868 by

Mariano Cabal Mariano Cabal (12 April 1830 – 1885) was the governor of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina between 9 April 1886 and 7 April 1871. Major achievements of Cabal's administration were, among others, the opening of the first telegraph line betwee ...

, San Justo attained the status of a ''comuna'' (

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

) on 13 July 1887 and the following year the

Ferrocarril Provincial de Santa Fe Province of Santa Fe Railway (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Provincial de Santa Fe and in French: "Compagnie Française de Chemins de Fer dans la Province de Santa Fe") was a French-owned company that purchased a railway network built by the provincia ...

arrived on 1 September 1888. It became a city on 17 September 1959. On January 10, 1973, the city was struck by a destructive tornado.

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* * Populated places in Santa Fe Province {{SantaFeAR-geo-stub