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Rosario, Argentina's chief inland port, especially for grain,1 is on the Paraná River on the edge of Santa Fe State.2 In 2015 it had a metropolitan population of 1.429 million,3 with 1.194 million within the city limits.4 It has a monument to the national flag, which was designed and first raised here. In the 19th century it became Argentina's chief export port, and its population therefore grew. The city's two tallest skyscrapers are the Dolfines Guaraní Torre [Tower] 1 and 2 (427 feet, 2010.5
Year | Population |
1900 CE | 112,0006 |
2015 CE | 1,429,000 (metropolitan)3 |
Skyline of Rosario, with the Paraná River in the foreground, in Santa Fe Province, Argentina
1. The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.
2. Santa Fe is Spanish for Holy Faith and refers to Christianity.
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_South_American_metropolitan_areas_by_population, accessed February 25, 2019.
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Argentina_by_population, accessed July 5, 2016.
5. Emporis.com, accessed March 13, 2019. The Rosario Telefe TV mast (2009) is higher at 633 feet.
6. Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987), "Tables of the World's Largest Cities." In 1900 it was the largest city in northeastern Argentina.