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The Constitución Department (in Spanish, ''Departamento Constitución'') is an administrative subdivision ('' departamento'') of the
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of Santa Fe,
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. It is located on the south of the province. It has about 83,000 inhabitants as per the . Its head town is the city of Villa Constitución (population 43,000). Its neighbouring departments are
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, San Lorenzo and Caseros in the north, and General López in the west; to the south its natural border is the
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, which also marks the interprovincial limit with
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; to the east it faces the
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, across which is the province of Entre Ríos. The towns and cities in this department are (in alphabetical order): Alcorta, Bombal, Cañada Rica, Cepeda,
Empalme Villa Constitución Empalme Villa Constitución (often shortened to Empalme) is a town (''comuna'') in the south of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 5,890 inhabitants as per the . Overview Empalme lies from the city of Villa Constitución and south of ...
, General Gelly, Godoy, Juan Bernabé Molina, Juncal,
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, Máximo Paz, Pavón, Pavón Arriba, Peyrano, Rueda, Santa Teresa, Sargento Cabral,
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, Villa Constitución.


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Government of the Province of Santa Fe

Inforama
- Municipalities of the Constitución Department. * Departments of Santa Fe Province {{SantaFeAR-geo-stub