The National University of Litoral ( es, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, UNL) is a

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. It is based in Santa Fe, the capital of

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. It has colleges and other academic facilities in

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and Gálvez, also in Santa Fe Province.

History

The original institution was established as the ''Universidad Provincial de Santa Fe'' (Provincial University of Santa Fe) in 1889. The Argentine university reform of 1918 brought modernization and democratization to higher education in Argentina. The National University of Litoral was created the following year by a national law signed on October 17, becoming the first regional university in the country, with influence over the Argentine Littoral (Santa Fe and the Mesopotamic provinces of Entre Ríos and

Corrientes Corrientes (; Guaraní: Taragüí, literally: "Currents") is the capital city of the province of Corrientes, Argentina, located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, about from Buenos Aires and from Posadas, on National Route 12. It ha ...

Notable alumni

Jorge Goldenberg Jorge Goldenberg Hachero (b. 1941) is a prolific screenwriter from Argentina. Jorge Goldenberg was born in San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941. He studied film direction at the Film Institute of the National University of the Litoral in ...

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. Screenwriter. * Juan José Saer - Serodino. Novelist. *

Miguel Brascó Miguel Brascó (14 September 1926 – 10 May 2014) was an Argentine writer, poet and translator, humorist, cartoonist, editor, critic who is a specialist in wine and gourmet Gourmet (, ) is a cultural idea associated with the culinary arts of ...

- Sastre, Santa Fe. Writer, humorist, critic. * Alberto Cassano -

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. Engineer, professor. Founded the scientific program CONICET. *

Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Eugenio is an Italian and Spanish masculine given name deriving from the Greek ' Eugene'. The name is Eugénio in Portuguese and Eugênio in Brazilian Portuguese. The name's translated literal meaning is well born, or of noble status. Similar de ...

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. Judge of Inter-American Court of Human Rights. *

Ricardo Lorenzetti Ricardo Luis Lorenzetti (born 19 September 1955) is an Argentine judge graduated from the National University of the Littoral, Argentina, with a long national and international career. He used to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Argentina ...

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. Judge. President of

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. * Horacio Rossatti -

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. Lawyer. Former Mayor of the City of Santa Fé. Currently, President of the

. *

Rogelio Pfirter Rogelio Pfirter (born 25 August 1948) is an Argentine diplomat who served as Argentina's ambassador to the United Kingdom and to the Holy See. He was the Director General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) from 20 ...

. Diplomat. OPAQ director 2002–2010. *

Jorge Faurie Jorge Marcelo Faurie (born 24 December 1951) is an Argentine diplomat, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship, Minister of Foreigns Affairs and Worship of Argentina, serving in President Mauricio Macri's cabinet from 12 June 2017 to 10 Decemb ...

. Diplomat. Former chancellor at the

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Governors

Floro Bogado Floro Eleuterio Bogado (February 20, 1939 – December 12, 2017) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, lawyer and diplomat. He served as Vice-Governor of Formosa Province under Gildo Insfrán from 1995 to 2017, and was Governor from 198 ...

- Formosa. Governor

Formosa Province Formosa Province () is a province in northeastern Argentina, part of the Gran Chaco Region. Formosa's northeast end touches Asunción, Paraguay, and the province borders the provinces of Chaco and Salta to its south and west, respectively. Th ...

1983-1987 *

Luis Beder Herrera Luis Beder Herrera (born 26 May 1951) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician. He was the governor of La Rioja Province from 2007 to 2015. Born in Campanas, La Rioja, Herrera graduated as a lawyer in 1976 from the National Univer ...

- Campanas. Governor

La Rioja Province (Argentina) La Rioja () is a province of Argentina located in the west of the country. The landscape of the province consist of a series of arid to semi-arid mountain ranges and agricultural valleys in between. It is in one of these valleys that the capital ...

2007-2015 *

Deolindo Bittel Deolindo Bittel (May 26, 1922September 22, 1997) was a prominent Argentine politician. Life and times Early career and entry into politics Deolindo Felipe Bittel was born in Villa Ángela, a Chaco Province town known for its tannin industry, in ...

Villa Ángela Villa Ángela is a city in the provinces of Argentina, province of Chaco Province, Chaco, Argentina, 186 km west of the provincial capital Resistencia, Chaco, Resistencia. It is on the Gran Chaco, a lowland region of the Río de la Plata ba ...

. Governor

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 ...

1963-1966 and 1973-1976 *

Ángel Rozas Ángel Rozas (born 22 March 1950) is a retired Argentine politician. A member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Rozas was Governor of Chaco Province from 1995 to 2003, and served as a National Senator for Chaco from 2013 to 2019. Rozas was born ...

- General Pinedo. Governor

1995-2003 * José Antonio Romero Feris -

. Governor

Corrientes Province Corrientes (, ‘currents’ or ‘streams’; gn, Taragui), officially the Province of Corrientes ( es, Provincia de Corrientes; gn, Taragüí Tetãmini) is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by (fr ...

1983-1987 *

Enrique Mosca Enrique Mosca (July 15, 1880 – July 22, 1950) was an Argentine lawyer and politician prominent in the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR). Life and times Enrique Mosca was born in Santa Fe, in 1880. He enrolled at the Jesuit College of the Immac ...

- Santa Fe. Governor

1920-1924 * Waldino Suárez - Santa Fe. Governor

1946-1949 *

Aldo Tessio Aldo Emilio Tessio (October 28, 1909 – January 17, 2000) was an Argentine politician belonging to the Radical Civic Union (UCR). He served a Governor of Santa Fe Province from October 12, 1963, to June 28, 1966. Born in Esperanza, Santa Fe ...

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. Governor

1963-1966 *

Jorge Obeid Jorge Alberto Obeid (24 November 1947 – 28 January 2014) was an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician who was twice governor of Santa Fe Province and member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. Early life and education Obeid was born i ...

Diamante, Entre Ríos Diamante is a city in the west of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina, on the eastern shore of the Paraná River The Paraná River ( es, Río Paraná, links=no , pt, Rio Paraná, gn, Ysyry Parana) is a river in south-central South America ...

. Governor

1995-1999 y 2003-2007 * Carlos Raúl Contín - Nogoyá. Governor

Entre Ríos Province Entre Ríos (, "Between Rivers") is a central province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires (south), Corrientes (north) and Santa Fe (west), and Uruguay in the east. Its capital is Paraná ...

1963-1966 *

Sergio Montiel Sergio Alberto Montiel (October 20, 1927 – November 1, 2011) was an Argentinian politician, lawyer, and professor of constitutional law at the National University of the Littoral. Monitel served as Governor of Entre Ríos Province for two nonc ...

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. Governor

1983-1987 y 1999-2003 *

Oscar Castillo Oscar Aníbal Castillo (born 18 January 1954) is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, currently a Senator for the Civic and Social Front of Catamarca and a former governor of that province. He is the son of the late Arnoldo Castil ...

San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca () is the capital and largest city in Catamarca Province in northwestern Argentina, on the Río Valle River, at the feet of the Cerro Ambato. The city name is normally shortened as Catamarca. The city of , ...

. Governor Catamarca Province 1999-2003 *

Francisco Pérez (governor) Francisco Pérez (born May 9, 1969) is an Argentine lawyer and politician elected Governor of Mendoza Province in 2011. Biography Pérez was born in San Salvador de Jujuy, in 1969, to María Ercilia and Francisco Pérez. His father, with whom he ...

San Salvador de Jujuy San Salvador de Jujuy (), commonly known as Jujuy and locally often referred to as San Salvador, is the capital and largest city of Jujuy Province in northwest Argentina. Also, it is the seat of the Doctor Manuel Belgrano Department. It lies near ...

. Governor

Mendoza Province Mendoza, officially Province of Mendoza, is a province of Argentina, in the western central part of the country in the Cuyo region. It borders San Juan to the north, La Pampa and Neuquén to the south, San Luis to the east, and the republic o ...

2011-2015 *

José Humberto Martiarena José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

. Governor

Jujuy Province Jujuy is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia. The only neighboring Argentine province is Salta to the east and south. Geography There are three main areas in Jujuy: ...

1966-1966 * Carlos Maestro -

Puerto San Julián Puerto San Julián, also known historically as Port St. Julian, is a natural harbour in Patagonia in the Santa Cruz Province of Argentina located at . In the days of sailing ships it formed a stopping point, south of Puerto Deseado (''Port Desir ...

. Governor

Chubut Province Chubut ( es, Provincia del Chubut, ; cy, Talaith Chubut) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes rang ...

1991-1999 * Arturo Puricelli -

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. Governor Santa Cruz Province 1983-1987 * Rosana Bertone - San Salvador, Entre Ríos. Governor Tierra del Fuego Province 2015-2019

Notable faculty

* Ángela Romera Vera - Legal scholar and Sociology chair. First Argentine woman diplomat. *Prof. Raquel Chan. Biochemist, lead researcher in the team that developed the drought tolerant wheat and soybean seeds HB4®.

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