Pérez is a city in the . It is 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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, and lies 175 km south 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...

). It has a population of about 25,000 inhabitants .

The town was founded in 1876 by Eduardo Pérez and María Pérez de Jolly. It became officially a commune (comuna) on 20 November 1905, and a city on 4 November 1971.