- For the school in Montreal, see Villa Maria. Villa Maria is a private Catholic girl's High school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Villa María (not to be confused with Villa de María) is the third city in Córdoba Province, Argentina, and the head town of the General San Martín Department. This is a list of cities in Argentina. For a more exhaustive list of cities in a particular province see the main article linked to in each applicable section For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Regions See also Geography of Argentina The country is also divided into six or seven regions (seven when The Pampas is divided into the Pampas' plains Córdoba is a province of Argentina, located in the center of the country Departments (departamentos form the second level of administrative division in the Provinces of Argentina. General San Martín Department is a department of Córdoba Province in Argentina. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place The Argentine postal code is a system that assigns at least one unique alphanumeric Postal code to each Municipality. ISO 3166-2AR is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Argentina. A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks General phone calls within Argentina In Argentina, changes were made to area codes in 1999 when the telephone network was split up into three different areas with A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government A political party is a Political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within Government, usually by participating in electoral Villa de María del Río Seco (usually shortened to Villa de María, not to be confused with Villa María) is a town in the province of Córdoba Córdoba is a province of Argentina, located in the center of the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. General San Martín Department is a department of Córdoba Province in Argentina. It is located in the center of rich agricultural land. The area leads the country in production of milk. The city has a population of 72,162 per the 2001 census [INDEC] (Greater Villa María: 100,000). Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population National Statistics and Censuses Institute ( Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, INDEC is the Argentine government agency responsible
The city lies 140 km southeast from the provincial capital, on the left bank of the Tercero River, near the geographical center of Argentina, at the intersection of National Routes 9 and 158. Córdoba, abbreviated as CBA, is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas mountains on the The Tercero River ( Spanish for third) also known as Ctalamochita, is the river of the Córdoba Province with the most important water flow (27 National Route 9 (in Spanish Ruta Nacional 9) is a major road in Argentina, which runs from the center-east to the northwest of the country crossing the
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History
Villa María was founded on 27 September 1867 by Manuel Anselmo Ocampo, a young Porteño belonging to a wealthy family that then went on to become a Buenos Aires provincial senator and minister. Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Porteño is used to refer to a person who lives in a port city but it can also be used as an adjective for anything related to these port cities The town grew up around the train station on the Central Argentine Railway's line between Rosario and Cordoba which was completed 1870. |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains The Central Argentine Railway (CA (in Spanish Ferrocarril Central Argentino) was one of the Big Four Broad gauge,, British-owned companies that built Córdoba, abbreviated as CBA, is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas mountains on the In 1875 it became an important railway junction when the Ferrocarril Andino opened a line linking it to Villa Mercedes, and later to San Juan and Mendoza. The Ferrocarril Andino (FCA was a state-owned company in Argentina which towards the end of the 19th century built and operated a railway connecting Villa María Villa Mercedes is a city in the province of San Luis, Argentina. San Juan is the capital city of the Argentine province of San Juan in the Cuyo region located in the Tulúm Valley, west of Mendoza (men'dōzə is the capital city of Mendoza Province, in Argentina.
In 1871 the city was even declared Capital of the Republic by the National Congress, but the law was vetoed by President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento on the grounds that the site was subject to attacks by aboriginal tribes and therefore unsafe for the authorities. The Congress of the Argentine Nation (Congreso de la Nación Argentina is the legislative branch of the government of Argentina. A veto, Latin for "I forbid" is used to Denote that a certain party has the right to stop unilaterally a certain piece of Legislation. The President of Argentina (full title President of the Argentine Nation, Spanish: Presidente de la Nación Argentina) is the Head of state Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Albarracín (February 15 1811 &ndash September 11 1888 was an Argentine activist intellectual and writer and the seventh President
The town became officially a municipality in 1883. A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a City, Town, or Village, or Its first mayor was Pedro Viñas. It only had 825 inhabitants, but it grew so fast that by 1915 it had more than 10,000. Villa María became the seat of a Catholic diocese under Pope Pius XII, in 1957. Pope
Economy
The business sector or of Villa María, consists of 516 industrial enterprises (which represent about 9% of economic activity), 3,476 commercial enterprises (about 63% of activity) and 1,551 service businesses (about 28%). It is an essential point of transit between the main cities of the country and the Mercosur. Role and potential Some South Americans see Mercosur as giving the capability to combine resources to balance the activities of other global economic powers especially the North
The principal raw materials produced in Villa María are milk, cereals, meat, fodder, orchard fruits, oils, skins and leather, clay and organic material, sand, and stone. Milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the Mammary glands of female Mammals (including Monotremes.
Institutions
The city has three institutions of higher education: the National Technological University (founded 1970), the National University of Villa María (1997) and, for distance learning, the Catholic University of Salta (1998). The National Technological University ( Spanish: Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, UTN is a National university of Argentina, which specializes Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the Pedagogy and Andragogy, technology and instructional systems design
Villa María is the seat of the Intermunicipal Entity for Regional Development (Ente Intermunicipal para el Desarrollo Regional, ENINDER), consisting of 29 municipalities associated to effectively project their productive potential; by this means, these municipalities have achieved the highest gross domestic product of the provincial interior.
References
H. R. Stones, British Railways in Argentina 1860-1948, P. E. Waters & Associates, Bromley, Kent, England, 1993.
- Municipal information: Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina.
- Official website
- Daily Newspaper
- Villa Maria Portal
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