San Francisco is located at the far east border of the province of Córdoba, Argentina, and parts of the city are beyond the border into the province of Santa Fe. In the city National Routes 19 and 158 intersect. It is the fourth most populated city in Córdoba, with about 59,000 inhabitants, and the head city of the San Justo Department.
The town was founded on the 9th of September, 1886 by José Bernardo Iturraspe, as part of a colonization plan o...
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San Francisco is located at the far east border of the province of Córdoba, Argentina, and parts of the city are beyond the border into the province of Santa Fe. In the city National Routes 19 and 158 intersect. It is the fourth most populated city in Córdoba, with about 59,000 inhabitants, and the head city of the San Justo Department.
The town was founded on the 9th of September, 1886 by José Bernardo Iturraspe, as part of a colonization plan of the provincial government. The current location of the city is slightly south of the original settlement and dates from 1888. Around that same time railroads of the Córdoba Central Railway reached the area. The settlement was officially declared a city in 1915. A large portion of the city's population is made up of immigrants and World War I and II Refugees from Europe, a large concentration of them being from the region of Piemonte, Italy.
San Francisco was without running water services until the 1940s. It was also at this time that the...
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