Santa Rosa de Calchines (commonly shortened to Santa Rosa) is a town (''comuna'') in the center of the
province
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of
Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 5,629 inhabitants per the . It lies 55 km northeast of
the provincial capital, by Provincial Route 1, on the Calchines stream within the western banks of the
San Javier River (a tributary of the
Paraná).
History
The town was founded in 1816 as an
Indian reduction, with the name of San Miguel de Calchines, under the control of
Franciscan
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missionaries. In 1856 the priest in charge of the reduction calculated the number of resident natives as 3,000, and asked for a town to be established. The mission was moved to
San Javier in 1857, and then again to its original site in 1860.
In 1861 governor
Pascual Rosas ordered the natives to be moved again to San Javier, but they rebelled and were split into three reductions: San Javier,
Cayastá and Calchines. Rosas therefore decided to leave the matter as it was, founding three towns. Santa Rosa de Calchines was named in honor of
St. Rose of Lima
Rose of Lima (born Isabel Flores de Oliva; 20 April 1586 24 August 1617) was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the city thro ...
, its patron. The communal institutions were formally assembled on 14 July 1886.
Highlights
* The church of St. Rose of Lima, finished in 1863, is a
National Historic Monument. Its altar, brought from
Naples
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, Italy, was donated by president
Bartolomé Mitre
Bartolomé Mitre Martínez (26 June 1821 – 19 January 1906) was an Argentine statesman, soldier and author. He was President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868 and the first president of unified Argentina.
Mitre is known as the most versatile s ...
, who attended the first mass.
* Boxing champion
Carlos Monzón was killed in a car crash in the jurisdiction of Santa Rosa in 1995. A monument at the site of his death commemorates it.
References
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Populated places in Santa Fe Province