Reconquista, Santa Fe Province, Argentina
🇦🇷 Reconquista is a city in the north of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, 327 km from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the General Obligado Department.
The city lies on a branch of the Paraná River opposite the city of Goya, Corrientes. As of 2005, the construction of a road link between the two cities is under study; at present there is no way to cross the multiple minor branches, streams and wetlands except by boat.
Reconquista was founded on 27 April 1872 as a military fort, established by Colonel Manuel Obligado, in lands formerly belonging to the Jesuit mission Reducción San Jerónimo del Rey. It was declared a city in 1921.
Transport The city is served by commercial airlines using the Reconquista Airport, served, as of 2023, by LADE.
History Reconquista was natively inhabited by the Abipones people according to accounts from Jesuit Martin Dobrizhoffer.
On November 22, 1872, the Governor Simón de Iriondo by Decree No. 430 authorizing the creation of a town a with the name of Reconquista.
In 1998, there were a high number of leptospirosis cases were detected, coming from the area of Reconquista Central Hospital in Reconquista, Santa Fe province.
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Reconquista has a population of over 99,288 people. Reconquista also forms the centre of the wider General Obligado Department which has a population of over 166,436 people.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Reconquista has links with:
🇪🇸 Albacete, Spain🇧🇧 Bridgetown -59.616
🇦🇷 San Antonio de Areco -59.467
🇦🇷 Resistencia -58.983
🇦🇷 Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña -58.983
🇦🇷 General Rodriguez -58.95
Locations Near: Reconquista -59.9333,-29.2333
🇦🇷 Goya -59.25,-29.133 d: 67.3
🇦🇷 San Justo -60.583,-30.783 d: 183.4
🇦🇷 San Cristóbal -61.233,-30.317 d: 173.9
🇦🇷 Resistencia -58.983,-27.45 d: 219
🇦🇷 Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña -58.983,-27.45 d: 219
🇦🇷 Corrientes -58.817,-27.483 d: 223.2
🇦🇷 Esperanza -60.933,-31.417 d: 261.1
🇦🇷 Chajarí -57.975,-30.749 d: 252.9
🇦🇷 Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz -60.7,-31.633 d: 276.8
Antipodal to: Reconquista 120.067,29.233
🇨🇳 Dongyang 120.217,29.267 d: 20000
🇨🇳 Yiwu 120.1,29.534 d: 19981.5
🇨🇳 Yongkang 120.022,28.893 d: 19977
🇨🇳 Zhejiang 120.445,29.2 d: 19978.2
🇨🇳 Jinhua 119.627,29.079 d: 19969.1
🇨🇳 Zhuji 120.233,29.717 d: 19958.9
🇨🇳 Lishui 119.923,28.468 d: 19928.8
🇨🇳 Fuyang 119.95,30.05 d: 19923.6