Reconquista is a city in the north of the , from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the General Obligado Department, and it has 99,288 inhabitants according to the . The city lies on a branch of the

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opposite the city of Goya, Corrientes. As of 2005, the construction of a road link between the two cities is under study; at present there is no way to cross the multiple minor branches, streams and wetlands except by boat. Reconquista was founded on 27 April 1872 as a military fort, established by Colonel Manuel Obligado, in lands formerly belonging to the

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mission ''Reducción San Jerónimo del Rey''. It was declared a city in 1921.

Climate

The

climate Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteoro ...

of the region is wet

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(average in winter, in summer), with a mean annual

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of .

Transportation

The city is served by commercial airlines using the Reconquista Airport, served, as of 2023, by LADE.

History

Reconquista was natively inhabited by the Abipones people according to accounts from

Martin Dobrizhoffer. On November 22, 1872, the Governor Simón de Iriondo by Decree No. 430 authorizing the creation of a town a with the name of Reconquista. In 1998, there were a high number of

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cases were detected, coming from the area of Reconquista Central Hospital in Reconquista, Santa Fe province.

Notable residents

Gabriel Batistuta Gabriel Omar Batistuta (; born 1 February 1969) is an Argentine former professional Association football, footballer. During his playing career, Batistuta was nicknamed Batigol () as well as El Ángel Gabriel (; Spanish for ''Archangel Gabriel, A ...

: retired professional footballer * Laura Devetach, writer, was born here in 1936.Laura Devetach
Oxford Index, retrieved 6 February 2015 * Juan Gómez Taleb: professional footballer * Candela Ferro - television journalist

References

Municipalidad de Reconquista
(official website) * *

External links

Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina. City information, Photos, Tourism... www.portalreconquista.com.ar
Populated places in Santa Fe Province Paraná River Cities in Argentina {{SantaFeAR-geo-stub