Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña

Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña is the capital of the department Comandante Fernández. It is located in the center of Chaco Province in northern Argentina. With 76 794 inhabitants, it is the second largest city of the province.

Economy

The surrounding area of the city is still one of the centers of cotton production, therefore outweighs the related industries as well as services to the environment in the urban economy. More recently, the growing of soybeans and corn has increased greatly in this region.

Geography

Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña lies in the plane of the Gran Chaco, a savannah landscape with bush forests. The climate is subtropical. In particular, the summers are very hot.

Climate

History

The city was founded in 1912 by Carlos Fernández. Up there in the province of Chaco, only the coastal strip of the rivers Río Paraná and Río Paraguay was settled, but an upturn in the region made ​​it necessary to extend coverage to areas further west. Thus, a railway line from Resistencia to Salta was built, in which Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña developed. The name recalls the founding of the city to the incumbent President Roque Sáenz Peña ( 1910-1914 ). In the 1920s and 1930s, the city has experienced rapid population growth, particularly Europeans settled here, to grow cotton.