Villa Gobernador Gálvez is a city in the

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of Santa Fe, Argentina, located on the western ravine of the

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, within the

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Greater Rosario Greater Rosario is the metropolitan area of the city of Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. This metropolis has a population of about 1.3 million (1,455,668 million inhabitants) thus being Argentina's third most populated urban s ...

. It had 74,509 inhabitants per the . It is separated from

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, to the north, by the

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. It is the fourth most populated city in the province and the second in the metropolitan area. The city was founded by an

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, engineer Enrico Mosconi, on 25 February 1888 (he was the father of military engineer General

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, first director of the

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state

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company). Dr. José Gálvez, governor of Santa Fe since 1886, hired Mosconi to trace the railway system that would link this province to Mendoza. For this purpose Mosconi acquired land, and upon authorization by the governor, set up a village, populated mostly by other immigrants from Italy and

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. The town was declared a city by Governor

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on 12 April 1962. At the time it had about 18,000 inhabitants. What today is called "Villa Gobernador Gálvez" is in fact an aggregate of three towns: V. G. Gálvez proper, Villa Diego and Pueblo Nuevo. The history of the city is preserved in a public museum (Dr. Raúl Malatesta Municipal Museum), established in 1986 and managed by an association of citizens. Villa Gobernador Gálvez is divided in about 20 ''

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s'' (neighborhoods). It has a public

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( Anselmo Gamen Hospital) and several minor public healthcare centers, a number of

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s clubs, five

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s, and two FM

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and

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services are provided by a

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Notable people

* Ezequiel Barco, soccer player on loan to

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Ezequiel Lavezzi Ezequiel Iván "Pocho" Lavezzi (, ; born 3 May 1985) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward. During his career, his most important attributes were his pace, hardworking style of play, technique, creativity, and d ...

, former professional soccer player who represented the

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from 2007 to 2016

References

* *
History of V. G. G.
on the telephone-ISP cooperative website.

- Website of the public museum. {{DEFAULTSORT:Villa Gobernador Galvez Paraná River Populated places in Santa Fe Province Cities in Argentina Populated places established in 1888