San Salvador is a city in 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 Entre Ríos, Argentina. It has 13,228 inhabitants per the , and is the head town of the

San Salvador Department San Salvador () is a department of El Salvador in the west central part of the country. The capital is San Salvador, which is also the national capital. The department has North of the Rio Lempa Valley, the "Valle de las Hamacas" (Hammock Valle ...

. It is located on the center-east of the province, by National Route 18, about 48 km west of the

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and 205 km east from the provincial capital

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. The city is known as the 'National Capital of Rice'.

History

The town was founded on December 25, 1889 by the lawyer Miguel Malarín. The focal point of the settlement was the Malarín family home, called Villa Aurora, after the mother of the founder, Aurora Saint-Sauveur. The name of the town was also a homage to her, as ''San Salvador'' is the Spanish literal translation of the French surname ''Saint-Sauveur''. Colonists brought agriculture to the area (wheat, linseed, corn, sunflower, and later sorghum). Rice crops were planted first in 1932 and became popular, spreading to the whole province.

Economy

The San Salvador Department has rice as its traditional crop, and the city of San Salvador is now known as the National Capital of Rice. The area also hosts industries producing truck chassis, agricultural machines, aluminium works, pumps, and rice mills.

Tourism

National Museum of Rice Industry

The Museum displays the entire history of rice industry in

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. Is one of the three museums dedicated to the

rice Rice is a cereal grain and in its Domestication, domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice)—or, much l ...

in the world.

References

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Official website

Unofficial website

at TurismoEntreRios.com.
San Salvador
at EntreRiosTotal.com. {{DEFAULTSORT:San Salvador, Entre Rios Populated places in Entre Ríos Province