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Arroyito, Córdoba
Arroyito () is a city in Córdoba Province, Argentina. It is located east of Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba, on both sides of National Route 19. Arroyito earned the nickname Sweet City (''Ciudad Dulce''). Etymology Arroyito can be translated as "little stream", or "little brook". It was named after a stream (now disappeared) that crossed this settlement and landed on the Xanaes river. The first records referred to this settlement as ''paraje del Arroyito'' or ''El Arroyito''. History Early settlement It is not clear when Arroyito was founded. The oldest document that mentions it was the first census of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata on 23 November 1778, with a resulting population of 220 inhabitants. This hamlet was known as ''Villa Arroyito'', and was the place chosen by the Spain, Spanish soldier José Ignacio Urquía to build a church dedicated to the Virgin of Mercy, completed in 1790. In 1865, the total population for Arroyito was 228 inhabitants, according to ...
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List Of Cities In Argentina
This is a list of city, cities in Argentina. List of Argentine cities Over 150,000 inhabitants 45,000 to 150,000 inhabitants This is a list of the localities of Argentina of 45,000 to 150,000 inhabitants ordered by amount of population according to the data of the 2001 INDEC Census. * San Nicolás de los Arroyos (Buenos Aires) 133,602 * San Rafael, Mendoza, San Rafael (Mendoza) 104,782 * Rafael Castillo, Buenos Aires, Rafael Castillo (Buenos Aires) 103,992 * Trelew (Chubut) 103,305 * Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Santa Rosa (La Pampa) 101,987 * Tandil (Buenos Aires) 101,010 * Villa Mercedes, San Luis, Villa Mercedes (San Luis) 97,000 * Puerto Madryn (Chubut) 93,995 * Morón (Buenos Aires) 92,725 * Virrey del Pino (Buenos Aires) 90,382 * Caseros, Buenos Aires, Caseros (Buenos Aires) 90,313 * San Carlos de Bariloche (Río Negro) 90,000 * Maipú, Mendoza, Maipú (Mendoza) 89,433 * Zárate, Buenos Aires Province, Zárate (Buenos Aires) 86,686 * Burzaco (Buenos Aires) 86,113 ...
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Argentina Census
The Argentina census () is a census that takes place every 10 years since 1960. The first census was taken in 1869, under president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento; there have been 11 federal censuses since that time. The most recent national census took place in 2022. Since 1968, the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina is the public body responsible for conducting the census. History Adapted from the official website. Immigration File:Distribution_of_European_people_in_Argentina,_1869.svg, Only European immigrants (1869) File:Distribution_of_European_people_in_Argentina,_1895.svg, Only European immigrants (1895) File:Distribution_of_European_people_in_Argentina,_1914.svg, Only European immigrants (1914) File:Distribution_of_European_people_in_Argentina,_1947.svg, Only European immigrants (1947) File:Distribution_of_South_American_immigrants_in_Argentina,_2022.svg, Only South American immigrants (2022) Notes References External links

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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ...
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Verzuolo
Verzuolo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italy, Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin and about north of Cuneo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,379 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute National Institute of Statistics (Italy), Istat. The municipality of Verzuolo contains the ''frazione, frazioni'' (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Falicetto, Villanovetta, Papò, Chiamina, S. Bernardo, and Pomerolo. Verzuolo borders the following municipalities: Costigliole Saluzzo, Lagnasco, Manta (Cuneo), Manta, Pagno, Piasco, Savigliano, Villafalletto. Notable people People born in Verzuolo, or with close links to it, have included: *Giuseppe Siccardi (Verzuolo, 3 October 1802 – Turin, 29 October 1857) was an Italian jurist and politician. *Alessandra Boarelli (Turin, 1838 – Verzuolo, 1908) was an Italian mountaineer and, in 1864, became the first woman to summit ...
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Grupo Arcor
Grupo Arcor is an Argentine food company specialized in confectionery. The firm was founded on July 5, 1951 in the city of Arroyito, Córdoba. It specializes in the production of foodstuff, sugar and chocolate confectionery, cookies and ice cream in 39 industrial plants throughout Latin America. It is the world's top producer of hard candies and the tenth-biggest confectionery manufacturer overall. In Argentina, Arcor is the largest producer of processed foods, and its products are exported to over 120 countries. In 2012, Arcor ranked 1st amongst the 100 most valuable companies of Argentina, according to the opinion of CEOs, financial analysts and journalists specialised in economics. History Arcor was created on 5 July 1951 when a group of entrepreneurs, sons of Italian immigrants, opened the first candy factory in Arroyito, a city in Córdoba Province. The partners and buyers of the 10,000 m2 factory were members of the Pagani Family: Amos, Renzo, Fulvio, and Elio, who dec ...
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Candy
Candy, alternatively called sweets or lollies, is a Confectionery, confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, also called ''sugar confectionery'', encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy. Vegetables, fruit, or Nut (fruit), nuts which have been glaze (cooking technique), glazed and coated with sugar are said to be ''Candied fruit, candied''. Physically, candy is characterized by the use of a significant amount of sugar or sugar substitutes. Unlike a cake or loaf of bread that would be shared among many people, candies are usually made in smaller pieces. However, the definition of candy also depends upon how people treat the food. Unlike sweet pastries served for a dessert course at the end of a meal, candies are normally eaten casually, often with the fingers, as a snack between meals. Each culture has its own ideas of what constitutes candy rather than dessert. The same food may be a candy in one culture ...
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Primera Fabrica Arcor
Primera may refer to * Nissan Primera, a car * Primera Air, a former airline * Primera división (other), multiple top division football leagues * Primera, Texas, a town in Cameron County, Texas * Alí Primera Ely Rafael Primera Rosell (31 October 1941–16 February 1985) known artistically as Alí Primera, was a Venezuelan musician, composer, poet, and political activist. He was born in Coro, Falcón State, Venezuela and died in Caracas. He was o ..., Venezuelan musician, composer, poet, and political activist * Spanish Primera, Spain's highest football competition {{disambig ...
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and business failures around the world. The economic contagion began in 1929 in the United States, the largest economy in the world, with the devastating Wall Street stock market crash of October 1929 often considered the beginning of the Depression. Among the countries with the most unemployed were the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Weimar Republic, Germany. The Depression was preceded by a period of industrial growth and social development known as the "Roaring Twenties". Much of the profit generated by the boom was invested in speculation, such as on the stock market, contributing to growing Wealth inequality in the United States, wealth inequality. Banks were subject to laissez-faire, minimal regulation, resulting in loose lending and wides ...
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Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities. While humans started gathering grains at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers only began planting them around 11,500 years ago. Sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle were domesticated around 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. In the 20th century, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monocultures came to dominate agricultural output. , small farms produce about one-third of the world's food, but large farms are prevalent. The largest 1% of farms in the world are greater than and operate more than 70% of the world's farmland. Nearly 40% of agricultural land is found on farms larger than . However, five of every six farm ...
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Sawmill
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logging, logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimensional lumber). The Portable sawmill, "portable" sawmill is simple to operate. The log lies flat on a steel bed, and the motorized saw cuts the log horizontally along the length of the bed, by the operator manually pushing the saw. The most basic kind of sawmill consists of a chainsaw and a customized jig ("Alaskan sawmill"), with similar horizontal operation. Before the invention of the sawmill, boards were made in various manual labour, manual ways, either wood splitting, rived (split) and plane (tool), planed, hewing, hewn, or more often hand sawn by two men with a whipsaw, one above and another in a saw pit below. The earliest known mechanical mill is the Hierapolis sawmill, a Roman water-powered stone mill at Hierapolis, Asia M ...
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Tuscany
Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital city is Florence. Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its influence on high culture. It is regarded as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and of the foundations of the Italian language. The prestige established by the Tuscan dialect's use in literature by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini led to its subsequent elaboration as the language of culture throughout Italy. It has been home to many figures influential in the history of art and science, and contains well-known museums such as the Uffizi and the Palazzo Pitti. Tuscany is also known for its wines, including Chianti, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Morellino di Scansano, Brunello di Montalcino and white Vernaccia di San Gimignano. Having a strong linguistic and cultural identity, ...
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Italian Argentines
Italian Argentines (; , or ''tanos'' in Rioplatense Spanish) are Argentine-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Argentina during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Argentina. Between the 1850s and the 1950s, 3.5 million Italians immigrated to Argentina. It was estimated that at least 25-30 million Argentines (62.5% of the country's population) have some degree of Italian ancestry. Argentina has the second-largest community of Italians outside of Italy, after Brazil. Contingents of Italian immigrants arrived in Argentina from all regions of Italy, mainly from Northern Italy in the 19th century and mostly from Southern Italy in the 20th century. Italian community in Argentina, along with Spanish immigrants, became a major part of modern Argentine society. Argentine culture has significant connections to Italian culture in terms of language, customs, and traditions. Argentina is also a strongly ...
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