The San Lorenzo Department (in Spanish

Spanish language

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, Departamento San Lorenzo) 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 . It is located in the south of the province. It limits with the populous Rosario Department

Rosario Department

The Rosario Department is an administrative subdivision of the . It is located on the south of the province, with its eastern border coinciding with the provincial border along the Paraná River. It has an area of 1,890 km² and a population of 1.3 million, with a population density of about 700...

 and the Paraná River

Paraná River

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 in the east; and from there (going clockwise) with the departments of Constitución

Constitución Department

The Constitución Department is an administrative subdivision of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located on the south of the province. It has about 83,000 inhabitants as per the...

 (south), Caseros

Caseros Department

The Caseros Department is an administrative subdivision of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the south of the province...

 (east), Iriondo

Iriondo Department

The Iriondo Department is an administrative subdivision of the . It is located in the south of the province. It limits with the departments of San Jerónimo in the north, San Lorenzo in the east, Caseros in the south, and Belgrano in the west...

 (east and north) and San Jerónimo

San Jerónimo Department

The San Jerónimo Department is an administrative subdivision of the . It is located in the center-south of the province...

 (north).

The department has an area of 1,867 km² and a population of over 140,000 inhabitants. Its head town and most populated urban center is 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...

 (population 43,000). Other cities and towns are Aldao

Aldao, Santa Fe

Aldao is a small town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 601 inhabitants per the ....

, Capitán Bermúdez

Capitán Bermúdez

Capitán Bermúdez is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, located within the metropolitan area of Greater Rosario, , on the western shore of the Paraná River. It has a population of about 27,000 inhabitants per the .The town was founded in 1889, and officially became a city in 1970...

, Carcarañá

Carcarañá

Carcarañá is a city in the , located in the San Lorenzo Department, on the southern banks of the Carcarañá River, west of Rosario on National Route 9, and south of the provincial capital...

, Coronel Arnold

Coronel Arnold, Santa Fe

Coronel Arnold is a small town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 929 inhabitants as per the ....

, Fray Luis Beltrán

Fray Luis Beltrán

Fray Luis Beltrán is a small city in the , located within the metropolitan area of Greater Rosario, north of the city of Rosario, on the western shore of the Paraná River. It has a population of about 14,000 inhabitants as of the ....

, Fuentes

Fuentes, Santa Fe

Fuentes is a town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 2,628 inhabitants as per the ....

, Luis Palacios

Luis Palacios, Santa Fe

Luis Palacios is a town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 1,149 inhabitants per the ....

, Puerto General San Martín

Puerto General San Martín

Puerto General San Martín is a small city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, located within the metropolitan area of Greater Rosario, about north from the center of the city of Rosario, on the western shore of the Paraná River...

, Pujato, Ricardone, Roldán

Roldán, Santa Fe

Roldán is a small city in the , located within the metropolitan area of Greater Rosario. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 11,470 inhabitants...

, San Jerónimo Sud, Timbúes

Timbúes, Santa Fe

Timbúes is a town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 3,325 inhabitants as per the . It lies in the south of the province, at the confluence of the Paraná River and the Carcarañá River, 30 km north of Rosario and 144 km south of the provincial capital Santa Fe, on National Route...

, and Villa Mugueta.

The San Lorenzo Department includes important ports on the Paraná River, such as the city of San Lorenzo itself and Puerto General San Martín (which ships 50% of the Argentine exports

Foreign trade of Argentina

-Modern history:Agriculturally productive and thinly populated, Argentina recorded trade surpluses for most of the period between 1900 and 1948, including a cumulative US$1 billion during World War I and US$1.7 billion during World War II. Record taxes on grain exports imposed by the...

 of soybean

Soybean

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). This area also forms part of the so-called Industrial Corridor that stretches south towards 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 ....

 and reaches up to San Nicolás de los Arroyos

San Nicolás de los Arroyos

San Nicolás de los Arroyos is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the western shore of the Paraná River, 61 km from Rosario. It has about 138,000 inhabitants . It is the head town of the partido of the same name...

.