Armstrong is a city in the southwest of the province

Provinces of Argentina

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 of Santa Fe

Santa Fe Province

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, Argentina

Argentina

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. It has 10,411 inhabitants as per the . It is located 214 km (133 mi) from the provincial capital Santa Fe

Santa Fe, Argentina

Santa Fe is the capital city of province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It sits in northeastern Argentina, near the junction of the Paraná and Salado rivers. It lies opposite the city of Paraná, to which it is linked by the Hernandarias Subfluvial Tunnel. The city is also connected by canal with the...

, 80 km (50 mi) west of Rosario

Rosario

Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....

 and 20 km (12 mi) from Cañada de Gómez

Cañada de Gómez

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, on National Route 9

National Route 9 (Argentina)

National Route 9 is a major road in Argentina, which runs from the center-east to the northwest of the country, crossing the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, Salta and Jujuy...

 near the intersection with National Route 178.

The economy of the area is based on agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

, but Armstrong, together with nearby Las Parejas

Las Parejas, Santa Fe

Las Parejas is a city in the southwest of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, on National Route 178. Las Parejas has 11,301 inhabitants as per the ....

, have also become industrial centers focused on the manufacturing of agricultural machinery

Agricultural machinery

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 for local use and export

Export

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. These two cities together are home to 20% of Argentina's productive establishment of said industry.

Armstrong hosts an annual agro-industrial fair, Feriagro, which gathers exhibitors and visitors from the whole country and abroad. The agro-machinery industry has boomed since the turn of the 21st century, as the Argentine economy recovers

Argentine economic crisis (1999-2002)

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.

History

The area of the present-day town was under the jurisdiction of the Society of Jesus

Society of Jesus

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 in colonial times. It passed to Spanish landowners, then to British ones, and then to the Central Argentine Railway

Central Argentine Railway

The Central Argentine Railway was one of the Big Four broad gauge, , British-owned companies that built and operated railway networks in Argentina...

 company (CAR). Armstrong was started as a colony around a newly-installed train station

Train station

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 in 1882. At the time the area was occupied by a majority of Italian

Italy

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 immigrants. The name of the settlement was an homage to Thomas Armstrong, a pioneer in the development of the CAR.

The colony officially became a comuna (a small town commune) in 1886, and a full municipality on 16 November 1984.