Vera is a city in the north 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. It is the head town of the

Vera Department The Vera Department (in Spanish language, Spanish, ''Departamento Vera'') is an administrative subdivision (''Departments of Argentina, departamento'') of the provinces of Argentina, province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located ...

and lies 256 km from the provincial capital ( Santa Fe). It has a population of about 20,000 inhabitants (). The town was founded in 1891 by M. Leiva and E. Alemán, soon after the arrival of 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 ...

in February 1890, and became a city on 24 June 1954.

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