The Vera Department (in
Spanish
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, ''Departamento Vera'') is an administrative subdivision (''
departamento
A ' () is a country subdivision in several Latin American
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'') 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
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
. It is located in the center-north of the province. It limits
Chaco Province
Chaco (; Wichi: ''To-kós-wet''), officially the Province of Chaco ( es, provincia del Chaco ), is one of the 23 provinces in Argentina. Its capital and largest city, is Resistencia. It is located in the north-east of the country.
It is borde ...
to the north, and the departments of
General Obligado (east),
San Javier (south-east),
San Justo (south),
San Cristóbal (south-west), and
Nueve de Julio (west).
The Vera Department is the largest department in Santa Fe but also one of the least densely populated, as is true in the north of the province as a whole. It has over 51,000 inhabitants. Its head town is
Vera
Vera may refer to:
Names
*Vera (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
*Vera (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name)
**Vera (), archbishop of the archdiocese of Tarrag ...
(population 20,000). Other cities and towns are Calchaquí,
Cañada Ombú, Fortín Olmos, Garabato, Golondrina, Intiyaco, La Gallareta, Los Amores, Margarita, Tartagal, and Toba.
References
Inforama- Municipalities of the Vera Department.
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External links
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Departments of Santa Fe Province