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27-721: He started his schooling in Montevideo, but his family moved to the city of Santa Fe in Argentina during the Portuguese occupation . He finished his secondary schooling at the Monserrat School in Córdoba , where he started his studies on art and painting. After the war with Brazil , he returned to Montevideo, where he founded a school and published a book for the teaching of reading. He moved to Buenos Aires in 1830, and began studying law at

54-575: A school on the Reconquista River , in the town of Tigre , are named after him. Santa Fe, Argentina Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanta ˈfe ðe la ˈβeɾa ˈkɾus] ; usually called just Santa Fe , lit. "Holy Faith") is the capital city of the province of Santa Fe , Argentina . It is situated in north-eastern Argentina, near the junction of the Paraná and Salado rivers. It lies 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from

81-924: A treatise on spelling, Ortografía Completa , and another one on grammar, Lecciones de Gramática . After the Battle of Pavón during the Argentine Civil Wars , he continued working as the director of schools for the nation. In 1865, he was named director of the Teacher's School in Entre Ríos. His last public post was as member of the national Council on Education, where he worked until his death. Sastre died in Buenos Aires in February 1887. The town of Sastre , in Santa Fe Province , street names in several Argentine cities and

108-631: Is a small river in the province of Buenos Aires , Argentina . Together with the Riachuelo , it is one of the most contaminated watercourses in the country. The Reconquista is part of the Río de la Plata basin. It originates in Marcos Paz , Buenos Aires Province, and flows across 18 municipalities, emptying into the Luján River . Its drainage basin has an area of 1,670 square kilometres (640 sq mi) and

135-586: Is populated by around 4 million people. The river carries about 33 percent of the total pollution drained by the estuary of the Río de la Plata, taking into account both industrial and domestic waste . There are about 12,000 industries in its basin, 700 of which dump their waste into the watercourse without controls. Studies have found nitrites , nitrates , ester- phenols , PCB , and heavy metals . These pollutants can cause hepatitis , skin reactions, gastrointestinal problems and eye infections. During

162-706: Is the site of the National Technological University – Santa Fe Regional Faculty , Catholic University of Santa Fe (inaugurated in 1959), and the National University of the Littoral (first founded as the Provincial University in 1889, it adopted its current name in 1919). A suspension bridge was completed in 1924, though severe flooding partially destroyed it in 1983 (a second bridge, the Oroño,

189-562: The Hernandarias Subfluvial Tunnel that connects it to the city of Paraná . The city is also connected by canal with the port of Colastiné on the Paraná River. Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz has about 391,164 inhabitants per the 2010 census [ INDEC ] . The metropolitan area has a population of 653,073, making it the eighth largest in Argentina. Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz is linked to Rosario (170 km (106 mi) to

216-477: The Köppen climate classification , with a Cwa tendency). Winters are generally mild, though minimum temperatures can fall below 0 °C (32.0 °F) on cold nights during the winter. Summers are generally hot and humid. During the most extreme heat waves , temperatures have exceeded 45 °C (113.0 °F). Temperatures have exceeded 35 °C (95.0 °F) in every season. Rainfall can be expected throughout

243-592: The Sociedad Popular Restauradora (Rosas' government's political arm). In the same year, the French blockade of the Río de la Plata started, which first for cultural reasons, then political, defined them as anti-Rosas. The threats of the para-military group, the Mazorca , Sastre did not flee to Montevideo, as several of his friends had done. The government's displeasure and the stopping of imports from France caused

270-679: The University of Buenos Aires , but did not finish. He studied painting with various renowned artists. The following year, he opened a bookstore, Librería Argentina . In the back room, a new literary club, the Salón Literario ("Literary meeting room") started meeting in 1835. The regular members to the Salón were youths interested in culture, politics and the scientific progress: Miguel Cané , Juan Bautista Alberdi , Juan María Gutiérrez , Esteban Echeverría , and Vicente Fidel López . Their meetings at

297-422: The flood prevention works were built. Four projected waste treatment plants and other sanitation infrastructure were not. There was also no minimization or monitoring of industrial waste dumped into the course. According to Martín Nunziata, member of a Río de la Plata environmental group, this failure to comply with the plan was the result of political corruption , and also due to the pressure exerted by

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324-544: The railway privatisation in Argentina ceased all the long-distance services in the country. In the 2010s, the local municipality remodelled both stations as Guadalupe would be terminus for a new urban train. Nevertheless, the original project was not carried out. On the other hand, the Santa Fe Belgrano station was re-opened as a convention center . The fourth station (also the oldest of all) had been built by French company Province of Santa Fe Railway in 1885. It

351-629: The 1980s, there was a wave of protests by local residents denouncing the lack of state involvement. In 1984, the national Senate addressed the issue for the first time. In 1995, the national government obtained a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank for the cleaning and control of the Reconquista. The construction started in 1996, with a $ 400 million budget assigned to an autonomous entity called UniRec. In 2001 they were officially finished, and advertised as such, though only

378-430: The author himself. Besides observations on flora and fauna, it contained studies on the insects, mushrooms and ferns of the region, a novelty at the time. After a visit to his school by members of the paramilitary Mazorca , he left for Santa Fe and later to Entre Ríos , where in 1849, he founded the newspaper El Sudamericano . The following year, Governor Urquiza named him Inspector General of schools and director of

405-479: The bankruptcy of his bookstore. In 1840, Sastre published a novel, Cartas a Germania . With his shop gone, he retired to the nearby town of San Fernando , where he opened a school in 1842. There he conceived and wrote El Tempe Argentino , his main work as a self-taught naturalist. It was a study more literary than scientific on the flora, fauna and geography of the Paraná Delta , illustrated with engravings made by

432-588: The beginning discussed literature, arts and fashion, influenced by the ascendancy of romanticism in Europe at the time. They also discussed politics and culture, subjects that later became the core of their meetings. In 1837, Echeverría founded the Asociación de Mayo , at the back room of his store. The meeting was first viewed favorably by top functionaries of the Rosas government, even though they were considered suspicious by

459-556: The constant flooding of the Cayastá River. The city of Santa Fe became the provincial capital in 1814, when the territory of the province of Santa Fe was separated from the province of Buenos Aires by the National Constituent Assembly , held in the city in 1853. Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz became the commercial and transportation center for a rich agricultural area that produces grain, vegetable oils , and meats. The city

486-532: The first ever Five-pin billiards World Championship in 1965. The city is also home to two first division football teams: Club Atlético Colón and Club Atlético Unión , who contest the Santa Fe derby . Santa Fe was also the place where the world known Amílcar Brusa was born and raised, and the home of boxers Carlos Baldomir and Julio César Vásquez . Santa Fe is twinned with: Reconquista River The Reconquista River ( Spanish , Río Reconquista )

513-511: The improvement of the major highways and a subfluvial tunnel. Despite having had four railway stations , nowadays the city Santa Fe is not served by rail transport. The Mitre Railway station is no longer used since 2007, when defunct company Trenes de Buenos Aires cancelled its services to Santa Fe. Likewise, the Santa Fe Belgrano (built in 1891 and named Cultural Heritage) and Guadalupe stations had been entered into disuse in 1993 when

540-529: The official newspaper El Federal . After the Battle of Caseros , which deposed Rosas, he returned to Buenos Aires, where he was named director of the public library. For his sympathies with the Urquiza government, in 1853 he was released from the post. He returned to Entre Ríos, where he became Inspector General of schools of the Argentine Confederation . He also wrote for several newspapers and published

567-522: The polluting industries on the workers: "The companies warn [them] that, if the environmental laws are applied, they will have to close." Nunziata also alluded to the cellulose plant conflict between Argentina and Uruguay : "If, starting today, it was decided to demand from the industries of the Reconquista River the same things we want Uruguay to demand from the Fray Bentos cellulose plants, out of

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594-614: The south), the largest city in the province, by the Brigadier Estanislao López Highway and by National Route 11 , which continues south towards Buenos Aires . Córdoba is about (340 km (211 mi) west of Santa Fe, through the National Route 19 . Santa Fe is home to the Sauce Viejo Airport with daily direct flights to Rosario and Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires. Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz

621-449: The year though summer is usually the wettest season. Thunderstorms can be intense with frequent lightning , powerful downdraughts and intense precipitation . The lowest record temperature was −7.0 °C (19.4 °F) on June 13, 1967, while the highest recorded temperature was 45.6 °C (114.1 °F) on January 25, 1986. There is infrastructure for tourism that has been developed: river side bars and nightclubs, chic restaurants,

648-486: Was demolished in 1962 and replaced by a bus station . Railway stations in the city of Santa Fe are: Notes: Santa Fe put itself on the international sports map as one of the host cities of the 1990 FIBA World Championship . The games were played in the Estadio de la Facultad Regional Santa Fe . The Estadio Ángel Malvicino was one of the venues of the 2002 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship . Santa Fe also hosted

675-515: Was founded on the nearby site of Cayastá in 1573 by the conquistador Juan de Garay (1528-1583) during an expedition which he led from Asunción (in present-day Paraguay ) to the Paraná River . (Cayastá today has a historical park containing the grave of Hernandarias (1561-1634), the first American-born governor in South America.) The settlement was moved to the present site in 1653 due to

702-469: Was opened in 1971). The city's location is still not immune to flooding. On April 29, 2003, the Salado, which empties into the Paraná near Santa Fe, rose almost 2 m (6.5 ft) in a few hours following heavy rainfall, and caused a catastrophic flood. No fewer than 100,000 people had to be evacuated, and large sections of the city remained under water more than a week later. That year, the suspension bridge

729-537: Was reopened, and in 2008, the city's historic grain silos were converted into the Los Silos Hotel and Casino , and San Martín Street was converted to pedestrian use. The city's historical role in the Argentine Constitution led national lawmakers to choose it as the site of Constitutional Conventions in 1949 , 1957 , and 1994 . The city has a climate considered as humid subtropical ( Cfa , according to

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