San Martín, Mendoza
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San Martín is a city in the north-center part of the Mendoza Province. It's the capital of the San Martín Department and constitutes together with Palmira and La Colonia the third metropolitan area of the province.
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The first San Martín inhabitants were the ethnic group Huarpe Milkayak, the territory was governed by the tribal chief called Pallamay until 1563, when the first europeans under the command of the captain Pedro Moyano Cornejo, arrived to the zone.
The city was known as Rodeo de Moyano or sometimes as La Reducción (Spanish: The Reduction) but its name was changed by Villa Los Barriales in 1816, when it was included in the Corocorto Priesthood of the Mendoza Province and officially founded by the governor Toribio de Luzuriaga.
San Martín came into prominence in the war of the Argentine independence period, when José de San Martín received an extensive land in the zone to take advantage of agriculture and help the chilean army of Bernardo O'Higgins and so prevent new Spanish invasions from Chile to Argentina. In 1823 the governor Pedro Molina changed the name of the city one more time by the present one in homage to the Argentine general[1], who made many changes in the farming sector specially in viticulture.
In 1885, the first railway arrives in San Martin uniting Buenos Aires with Mendoza and Chile. In this period many italian inmigrants who came of the Río de la Plata area populated the city.
During the second half of 20th century, it was constructed the National Route 7 converting the city into an important trading centre on the main trade routes across Buenos Aires and Santiago.
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- ^ San Martín was the first city in South America named in homage to José de San Martín.
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Official Site
- (Spanish) Atlético Club San Martín
- (Spanish) San Martín Tourism Guide
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