Villa del Rosario is a city in the center 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 Córdoba, Argentina. It has 13,741 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the

Río Segundo Department Río Segundo Department is a department of Córdoba Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population in 2001 of 95,803 in an area of . Its capital city is Villa del Rosario, which is located from the Buenos Aires. Settlem ...

. It is located 80 km east-southeast from the provincial capital Córdoba, on the right-hand (southern) banks of the

Segundo River The Segundo River ( es, Río Segundo, 'Second River'), also known as Xanaes, is a river in the center-north of the provinces of Argentina, province of Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Argentina. It is born in the Paravachasca Valley at the ...

(also known as Xanaes). On December 2, 2013, much of the city was destroyed in a powerful tornado.

References

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Portal de Villa del Rosario
— City portal. Populated places in Córdoba Province, Argentina {{CórdobaAR-geo-stub