The Nueve de Julio Department (in
Spanish
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, ''Departamento Nueve de Julio'') is an administrative subdivision (''
departamento A ' () is a country subdivision in several Latin American
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Latin American countries and the ...
'') of the
province
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of
Santa Fe,
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
. It is located in the northwestern corner of the province, limiting with the
Vera Department in the east, and with the
San Cristóbal Department
The San Cristóbal Department (in Spanish language, Spanish, ''Departamento San Cristóbal'') is an administrative subdivision (''Departments of Argentina, departamento'') of the provinces of Argentina, province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe, Arge ...
in the south. To the north it limits with the province of
Chaco, and to the west with the province of
Santiago del Estero
Santiago del Estero (, Spanish for ''Saint-James-Upon-The-Lagoon'') is the capital of Santiago del Estero Province in northern Argentina. It has a population of 252,192 inhabitants, () making it the twelfth largest city in the country, with a sur ...
.
The department is the second largest in the province, but it has only about 28,000 inhabitants. The head town is
Tostado (population 14,000). Other cities and towns are
Esteban Rams,
Gato Colorado,
Gregoria Pérez de Denis,
Juan de Garay
Juan de Garay (1528–1583) was a Spanish conquistador.
Garay's birthplace is disputed. Some say it was in the city of Junta de Villalba de Losa in Castile, while others argue he was born in the area of Orduña (Basque Country). There's ...
,
Logroño
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,
Montefiore,
Pozo Borrado,
San Bernardo,
Santa Margarita, and
Villa Minetti.
The name of this department corresponds to the date of the
Argentine Declaration of Independence
The Independence of the Argentine Republic (or ''La Independencia de Argentina'' in spanish) was declared on July 9, 1816, by the Congress of Tucumán. In reality, the congressmen who were assembled in Tucumán declared the independence ...
(9 July 1816) and is often spelled with the actual figure 9 (''Departamento 9 de Julio'').
References
Inforama- Municipalities of the Nueve de Julio Department.
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External links
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{{Departments Santa Fe
Departments of Santa Fe Province