The Nueve de Julio Department (in Spanish

Spanish language

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, Departamento Nueve de Julio) is an administrative subdivision (departamento

Departments of Argentina

Departments form the second level of administrative division in the provinces of Argentina. There are no departments in the city of Buenos Aires, which has so far been divided into neighbourhoods as its administrative divisions, but is to be divided now into communes by a recently passed local act...

) 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 is located in the northwestern corner of the province, limiting with the Vera Department

Vera Department

The Vera Department is an administrative subdivision of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the center-north of the province...

 in the east, and with the San Cristóbal Department

San Cristóbal Department

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 in the south. To the north it limits with the province of Chaco

Chaco Province

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, and to the west with the province of Santiago del Estero

Santiago del Estero Province

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.

The department is the second largest in the province, but it has only about 28,000 inhabitants. The head town is Tostado

Tostado, Santa Fe

Tostado is a city in the northwest of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, north-west from the provincial capital. It has about 14,000 inhabitants as of the and it is the head town of the Nueve de Julio Department....

 (population 14,000). Other cities and towns are Esteban Rams, Gato Colorado, Gregoria Pérez de Denis, Juan De Garay, Logroño, Montefiore, Pozo Borrado, San Bernardo, Santa Margarita, and Villa Minetti.

The name of this department corresponds to the date of the Argentine Declaration of Independence

Argentine Declaration of Independence

What today is commonly referred as the Independence of Argentina was declared on July 9, 1816 by the Congress of Tucumán. In reality, the congressmen that were assembled in Tucumán declared the independence of the United Provinces of South America, which is still today one of the legal names of the...

(9 July 1816) and is often spelled with the actual figure 9 (Departamento 9 de Julio).