Rosario

Rosario, the third city of the Argentine Republic, and the largest in Santa Fé, is on the west bank of the Paraná, 190 miles by rail N.W. of Buenos Ayres, 210 miles by river. It has an excellent harbour, and carries on a large commerce direct with Europe; the exports exceed 3½ and the imports 4½ millions sterling. The houses for the most part are of a single story; for the rest, the city is laid out on, a smaller scale, on the lines of Buenos Ayres, with narrow streets, ill paved, few and paltry plazas, and only one monument of note—a lofty marble shaft (1883) bearing a figure of Victory and surrounded by four statues. Tramways (with 6 miles of rails) run in every direction, and there is a telephone to Buenos Ayres. The city possesses an exchange, a theatre, a great bullring, two markets, hospitals, steam-elevators, a sugar-factory, &c. Rosario was founded in 1725. Pop. (1887) 55,000.