The San Cristóbal Department (in
Spanish
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, ''Departamento San Cristóbal'') is an administrative subdivision (''
departamento
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'') of the
province
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of
Santa Fe,
Argentina
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. It is located in the center-northwest of the province, limiting with the departments of
Nueve de Julio and
Vera in the north,
San Justo in the east, and
Las Colonias and
Castellanos in the south; to the west it shares a short border with the province of
Córdoba and a longer one with
Santiago del Estero
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.
The department is the third largest in the province and has about 65,000 inhabitants. The head town is
San Cristóbal (population 14,000). The municipalities and communes in the department total 32: Aguará Grande, Ambrosetti, Arrufó, Capivara,
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, Colonia Ana, Colonia Bossi, Colonia Dos Rosas y La Legua, Colonia Rosa, Constanza, Curupaity, Hersilia, Huanqueros, La Cabral, Colonia Clara, La Lucila, La Rubia, Las Avispas, Las Palmeras,
Moisés Ville
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, Monigotes, Monte Oscuridad, Ñanducita, Palacios, Portugalete, San Cristóbal, San Guillermo, Santurce, Soledad,
Suardi
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, Villa Saralegui, Villa Trinidad.
References
Inforama] - Municipalities of the San Cristóbal Department.
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External links
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Departments of Santa Fe Province