# Arequito > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arequito > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arequito.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arequito > Source revision: 1353550969 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Infobox settlement | name = Arequito | native_name = | native_name_lang = es | settlement_type = [Town](/source/List_of_cities_in_Argentina) | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_shield = | shield_alt = | nickname = | motto = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Argentina | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Arequito in Argentina | coordinates = {{coord|33|9|S|61|28|W|region:AR_type:city|display=inline,title}} | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [Argentina](/source/Argentina) | subdivision_type1 = [Province](/source/Provinces_of_Argentina) | subdivision_name1 = [Santa Fe](/source/Santa_Fe_Province) | subdivision_type2 = [Department](/source/Departments_of_Argentina) | subdivision_name2 = [Caseros](/source/Caseros_Department) | established_title = | established_date = | founder = | government_footnotes = | leader_party = [UCR](/source/Radical_Civic_Union) | leader_title = [Communal President](/source/Communal_President) | leader_name = Nicolás Carotti | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 503 | area_note = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 6934 | population_as_of = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = | population_note = | timezone1 = [ART](/source/Time_in_Argentina) | utc_offset1 = −3 | timezone1_DST = | utc_offset1_DST = | postal_code_type = [CPA base](/source/Argentine_postal_code) | postal_code = [S](/source/ISO_3166-2%3AAR)2183 | area_code_type = [Dialing code](/source/Telephone_numbering_in_Argentina) | area_code = +54 3464 | website = | footnotes = }} '''Arequito''' is a town (''comuna'') in the south of the [province](/source/provinces_of_Argentina) of [Santa Fe](/source/Santa_Fe_Province), Argentina, {{convert|248|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} southwest from the [provincial capital](/source/Santa_Fe%2C_Argentina) and {{convert|90|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} west of [Rosario](/source/Rosario). It has a population of about 7,000 inhabitants as per the {{census-ar|2001}}. The town was founded initially as a waystop (''posta'') by Braulio Areco in 1778. He ended up using a [diminutive](/source/diminutive) of his surname because there were already two ''postas de Areco'' in [Buenos Aires](/source/Buenos_Aires) ([Carmen de Areco](/source/Carmen_de_Areco) and [San Antonio de Areco](/source/San_Antonio_de_Areco)). It became a colonist settlement, and in time it was recognized officially as a town, on 1 June 1891. The area received an important influx of [immigration](/source/immigration_in_Argentina) (mostly from Europe, and also [Syrian-Lebanese](/source/Syrian-Lebanese_Argentinians)) during the second half of the 19th century, and became a highly productive agricultural area. Since 1970 it produces [soybean](/source/soybean) (the town is the seat of the National Festival dedicated to this crop, held every October). Arequito became nationally known in the 1990s, as the hometown of the young [folk singer and composer](/source/folk_music) [Soledad Pastorutti](/source/Soledad_Pastorutti). ==References== * {{Ar-mi-muni|SFE013}} * {{Ar-sf-inforama|627}} * {{Authority control}} Category:Populated places in Santa Fe Province --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Arequito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arequito) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arequito?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.