Villa de María del Río Seco


Villa de María del Río Seco is a town in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. It has 3,819 inhabitants per the, and is the head town of the Río Seco Department. It lies in the north of the province, by National Route 9, about south of the provincial border with Santiago del Estero and north-northeast of the provincial capital Córdoba.
Villa de María was founded in 1796 or 1797 by the Marquis Rafael de Sobremonte, with the name of Río Seco. Its name was changed to the current one by provincial governor Roque Ferreira on 26 May 1858.
The town was the birthplace of the poet Leopoldo Lugones, whose childhood house is today a museum and a National Historic Monument. The area was also the stage of the assassination of the caudillo of Entre Ríos Province Francisco Ramírez, in 1821.

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