Arequito is a town 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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, 248 km (154 mi) southwest from the provincial capital

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...

 and 90 km (56 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 ....

. It has a population of about 7,000 inhabitants as per the .

The town was founded initially as a waystop (posta) by Braulio Areco in 1778. He ended up using a diminutive

Diminutive

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 of his surname because there were already two postas de Areco in Buenos Aires (Carmen de Areco

Carmen de Areco

Carmen de Areco is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Carmen de Areco Partido.-History:*1779, Viceroy Vértiz ordered Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Bergezé de Ducás to reinforce the line of defence against the native Argentine aborigenes .*January 1, 1780, Juan...

 and San Antonio de Areco

San Antonio de Areco

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). It became a colonist settlement, and in time it was recognized officially as a town, on 1 June 1891. The area received an important influx of immigration (mostly from Europe, and also Syrian-Lebanese) during the second half of the 19th century, and became a highly productive agricultural area. Since 1970 it produces soybean

Soybean

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 (the town is the seat of the National Festival dedicated to this crop, held every October).

Arequito became nationally known in the 1990s as the hometown of the young folk singer and composer

Folk music

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 Soledad Pastorutti

Soledad Pastorutti

Soledad "La Sole" Pastorutti is an Argentine folk singer, who brought the genre to the younger generations at the end of the 20th century, and the beginning of the 21st....

.