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This is an article about a city in Argentina. For other uses of Rosario, see Rosario (disambiguation).
Rosario is the largest city of Santa Fe Province, Argentina, and the second most populous in the country, with approximately 1 million inhabitants. It is located 300 km north of Buenos Aires on the Paraná River, which allows the existence of a 32-feet deep port.
In colonial times, the city was known as Villa del Rosario. Along with Paraná, it is one of the few Argentine cities that cannot point to a particular known individual as its founder. The city's patron is the Virgen del Rosario (feast: October 7).
The Flag Memorial marks the site where, on February 27 1812, General Manuel Belgrano first raised the Argentine flag on the shores of the Paraná. Because of this, Rosario is known as the "Cradle of the Argentine Flag".
It is seat of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (founded 1968) and the football (soccer) teams Rosario Central (founded 1889) and Newell's Old Boys (founded 1903).
The city has three notable newspapers: La Capital (Argentina's oldest still-published newspaper, founded 1867), El Ciudadano & la Región (founded 1999) and Rosario/12 (founded 1991).
The International Congress of the Spanish Language was held in Rosario on November 2004.
Following the fall of much of the city´s once extensive industry, which occurred during the 1990s, many of Rosario's population lives in various degrees of poverty, mostly in slums lacking toilets or running water. Since the recovery of the national economy that followed the 2001 collapse, Rosario has improved its economy, becoming the fastest growing city in Argentina, which is improving the living conditions on the outskirts of the city.
Government
Mayor of Rosario City (as of 2003): Miguel Lifschitz (Socialist Party)
Notable people from Rosario
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Rosario is also a town in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
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