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| History of San Nicolás |
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This city of 133.056 inhabitants is a pole industrial north of the county of Buenos Aires. The merchant santafesino Rafael de Aguiar, settled down in this area with their wife Juana Paulina de Ugarte, heiress on behalf of these lands, organized a town here starting from April of 1741. San Nicolás de los Arroyos denominated it, for his adoration to the saint and for the geographical situation of the same one. Its strategic location in the one in route to Buenos Aires would make it later on scenario of many episodes in the period of the civil wars and, later, in that of the national organization.
In 1819 the Congress of Tucumán gives him city category. It ended up being head of the old and extensive Pago de los Arroyos that included those that are today several parties from Buenos Aires. From the beginnings it contributed whole regiments for the forces that fought for the independence, beginning with the Gral. Belgrano who in 1810 it was taken of here 350 men for their campaign of the Paraguay. In March of 1811 got rid in front of their coast the first naval combat, uneven confrontation among the commandant Juan Bautista Azopardo, with an incipient flotilla, and the Spanish Squad to the captain's Jacinto Romarate. In October of 1812 it was plundered by the Spaniards that razed the costs of the Paraná.
From 1815 it became city-frontier, when getting worse the civil wars. In 1820 it was witness of the confrontations among the commanders López, of Santa Fé, and Ramírez, of Entre Ríos, on one hand; and the forces of the Directory for the other one. The commanders conquered the Managing Rondeau in February, in the neighboring narrow canyon of Cepeda, on the Arroyo del Medio, and they advanced then on Buenos Aires. In August the city was sieged by forces of Alvear and Carreras, to those that the Cnel. Manuel Dorrego who then took it for assault. The Gral. Urquiza chose to San Nicolás like headquarters of the meeting of governors of the whole Confederation, included Buenos Aires, the one that culminated May of 1852 with the signature of San Nicolás' Agreement, signed for 14 provincial it is the most important antecedent in the National Constitution of 1853.
Thanks to their geographical location, the city and their area they were from early elects for the localization of important industries. In the years of 1870, Eugenio Terrazon, French resided in Argentina from 1860, built its refrigerator of bovine meats and ovinas that it was the first of South America. In the decade of the 80 it exported meats to Europe. It was liquidated in 1896, partly for the bloody competition that liberated the English refrigerators. Their port of deep waters was used to export agricultural products from 1852. But the most important industrial radicación was the General Savop steel complex Savio that you began to build in 1956. |
Viajoporargentina - Información turística sobre la República Argentina
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