Empalme Villa Constitución (often shortened to Empalme) is a town (''comuna'') in the south of the
province
A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
of
Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 5,890 inhabitants as per the .
Overview
Empalme lies from the city of
Villa Constitución and south of
Rosario
Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city, located northwest of Buenos Aires on the west bank of the Paraná River, is the third-most populous city in the ...
. Its name, which means ''junction'' in
Spanish, alludes to its location at the junction of the main Buenos Aires–Rosario railway and a short line coming from the port of Villa Constitución, which was opened in 1886.
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Populated places in Santa Fe Province
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