The San Cristóbal Department (in Spanish

Spanish language

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, Departamento San Cristóbal) is an administrative subdivision (departamento

Departments of Argentina

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) 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 center-northwest of the province, limiting with the departments of Nueve de Julio

Nueve de Julio Department, Santa Fe

The Nueve de Julio Department is an administrative subdivision of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the northwestern corner of the province, limiting with the Vera Department in the east, and with the San Cristóbal Department in the south...

 and Vera

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 north, San Justo

San Justo Department

The San Justo Department is an administrative subdivision of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the center-north of the province. Starting from the north and going clockwise, it limits with the departments of Vera, San Javier, Garay, La Capital, Las Colonias, and San Cristóbal...

 in the east, and Las Colonias

Las Colonias Department

The Las Colonias Department is an administrative subdivision of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the center of the province. Starting from the east and going clockwise, it limits with the departments of La Capital, San Jerónimo, San Martín, Castellanos, San Cristóbal, and San...

 and Castellanos

Castellanos Department

The Castellanos Department is an administrative subdivision of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the center-west of the province. It has about 162,000 inhabitants as per the...

 in the south; to the west it shares a short border with the province of Córdoba

Córdoba Province (Argentina)

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 and a longer one with Santiago del Estero

Santiago del Estero Province

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.

The department is the third largest in the province and has about 65,000 inhabitants. The head town is San Cristóbal

San Cristóbal, Santa Fe

San Cristóbal is a city in the center-north of the , 179 km north-northwest from the provincial capital. It has about 14,000 inhabitants as of the and it is the head town of the San Cristóbal Department....

 (population 14,000). The municipalities and communes in the department total 32: Aguará Grande, Ambrosetti, Arrufó, Capivara, Ceres

Ceres, Santa Fe

Ceres is a municipality San Cristóbal Department, in Santa Fe Province, Argentina. The town of Ceres is northwest of the provincial capital Santa Fe and has a population of 16,054...

, Colonia Ana, Colonia Bossi, Colonia Dos Rosas y La Legua, Colonia Rosa, Constanza, Curupaity, Hersilia, Huanqueros, La Cabral, Colonia Clara, La Lucila, La Rubia, Las Avispas, Las Palmeras, Moisés Ville

Moisés Ville

Moisés Ville is a small town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina founded in 23 October 1889 by Eastern European and Russian Jews escaping pogroms and persecution...

, Monigotes, Monte Oscuridad, Ñanducita, Palacios, Portugalete, San Cristóbal, San Guillermo, Santurce, Soledad, Suardi, Villa Saralegui, Villa Trinidad.