Santiago del Estero

Santiago del Estero is both capital of the department as Capital of the province of Santiago del Estero in northwestern Argentina. It has 230 614 inhabitants ( INDEC, 2001) ( in the metropolitan area, together with the city of La Banda, live a total of 280,000 inhabitants).

Geography

Santiago del Estero is located in a fertile district on the Rio Dulce to 162 meters.

History

Santiago del Estero was established in 1553 by the conquistador Lope de Aguirre, making it the oldest continuously still existing city in Argentina.

At the end of the 19th century, the city had a population of 8000.

Today only a few buildings from the colonial period have been preserved.

The Santiago del Estero province is one of the poorest and driest in the country.

Since Santiago del Estero is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Argentina, she is also known as Madre de ciudades ( Mother of Cities ).

Culture

Cultural life in Santiago is characterized by multi-ethnic mixture of the ancestors of today's inhabitants. On conspicuous most represented are descendants from Italy and the Arab- Asian region. Especially with the many different restaurants, this striking. Formative are also the two major universities in the city ( one of which is private), whereby there is a lot of young people in the city. A separate youth scene has developed on the streets and in the city park, clubs or discos there is little, the rather poor inhabitants could not afford ( in city outskirts, the unemployment rate is due in part to more than 70 %). A free art scene there is most likely in the music, however, marked here very folkloric, and on the stage. In addition to performances at the municipal theater socially critical and highly political pieces usually enter into ecclesiastical framework for performance. Estadio Victor Antonio Aguirre is the stadium of the city.

Twinning

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Amancio Alcorta (1805-1862), composer and politician
  • Bernardo Canal Feijoo (1897-1982), poet, historian, lawyer, sociologist, philosopher
  • Julio Carreras (* 1949), journalist and writer
  • Mariela Coronel ( born 1984 ), football player
  • Julio Ricardo Cruz ( born 1974 ), football player
  • Domingo Cura (1929-2004), percussionist
  • Orestes Di Lullo (1898-1983), writer, anthropologist, physician, historian
  • Carlos Manuel Fernández Loza (1940-2005), writer
  • José Ramón Maranzano ( born 1940 ), composer
  • Jorge Rosenberg (1948-1964), painter
  • Jorge Rosenberg ( b. 1948 ), poet
  • Rafael Touriño (1955-2005), illustrator and stage designer
  • Ricardo Touriño ( born 1953 ), sculptor
  • Oscar Guido Trejo (* 1988), football player
  • Graciela Soria ( born 1959 ), artist
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