Granadero Baigorria is a city in the south of the province

Provinces of Argentina

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 of Santa Fe

Santa Fe Province

The Invincible Province of Santa Fe, in Spanish Provincia Invencible de Santa Fe , is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco , Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero...

, Argentina

Argentina

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, located directly north 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 ....

, on the western shore of the Paraná River

Paraná River

The Paraná River is a river in south Central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina for some . It is second in length only to the Amazon River among South American rivers. The name Paraná is an abbreviation of the phrase "para rehe onáva", which comes from the Tupi language...

, and forming part of the Greater Rosario

Greater Rosario

Greater Rosario is the metropolitan area of the city of Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. This metropolis has a population of about 1.5 million , thus being Argentina's second most populated urban settlement, after Buenos Aires....

 metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

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. Its population is about 43,000 inhabitants.

Granadero Baigorria is named after Juan Bautista Baigorria

Juan Bautista Baigorria

Juan Bautista Baigorria, also known as Granadero Baigorria, was born in San Luis Province and died at the Battle of San Lorenzo on 3 February 1813, was an Argentine soldier...

, a cavalry

Cavalry

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 soldier

Soldier

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 of the Mounted Grenadiers (Granaderos a Caballo) who fought for General José de San Martín

José de San Martín

José Francisco de San Martín, known simply as Don José de San Martín , was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.Born in Yapeyú, Corrientes , he left his mother country at the...

 in the battle of San Lorenzo

San Lorenzo, Santa Fe

San Lorenzo is a city in the south of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, located 23 km north of Rosario, on the western shore of the Paraná River, and forming one end of the Greater Rosario metropolitan area...

 on 3 February 1813, the first of the Argentine War of Independence

Argentine War of Independence

The Argentine War of Independence was fought from 1810 to 1818 by Argentine patriotic forces under Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli and José de San Martín against royalist forces loyal to the Spanish crown...

.

The city features a camping site, beaches, and several islands on the Paraná. Cultural spotlights include an Artisans' Square, a museum, and several churches and shrines. Granadero Baigorria is also home to the first Portland cement

Portland cement

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 factory in Argentina.

The city has a large public (provincial) hospital, Hospital Escuela Eva Perón

Hospital Escuela Eva Perón

The Hospital Escuela Eva Perón is a general hospital in the city of Granadero Baigorria, part of the Greater Rosario metropolitan area, in Santa Fe Province, Argentina. It is a public hospital, depending on the Health Ministry of the provincial state of Santa Fe and managed partly by an elected...

, which together with two other such hospitals in Rosario supply free medical services to the populous metropolitan area around it.

External links

In Spanish unless otherwise noted.

• Datos útiles - Useful data for the visitor, on the website of La Capital
  La Capital
  La Capital is a daily Spanish-language newspaper edited and published in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It was founded in 1867 , and it is the oldest Argentine newspaper still in circulation, which has gained it the title of Decano de la Prensa Argentina...
  
  newspaper.
• Desarrollo Sostenible - Sustainable Development in Santa Fe.