Sancti Spiritu
Sancti Spiritu was a fortification established in 1527 near the Paraná River by the explorer Sebastian Cabot. It was the first European settlement in the territory of modern Argentina and was destroyed by Amerindians two years later.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: first European settlement in the territory of modern Argentina
- Also known as: “El Eucaliptus” and “Sitio Arqueológico del Fuerte Sancti Spiritus”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gaboto.
Gaboto
Village
Gaboto is a town in the southeast of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 2,617 inhabitants per the 2001 census. The town lies 92 km south of the provincial capital, by the Coronda River, and immediately north of the mouth of the Carcarañá River.
Sancti Spiritu
- Categories: human settlement, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-32.44207° or 32° 26′ 31″ southLongitude
-60.80736° or 60° 48′ 27″ westOpen location code
47VXH55V+53OpenStreetMap ID
way 684959511OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q823273
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Sancti Spiritu” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sancti Spiritu”
- Dutch: “Sancti Spiritu”
- Esperanto: “Sancti Spiritu”
- French: “Fort Sancti Spiritu”
- German: “Sancti Spiritu”
- Italian: “Sancti Spiritu”
- Japanese: “サンクティ・スピリトゥ”
- Portuguese: “Fortim sancti spíritus”
- Portuguese: “Fortim Sancti Spíritus”
- Portuguese: “Fuerte sancti spíritus”
- Portuguese: “Fuerte Sancti Spíritus”
- Portuguese: “Sancti Spiritu”
- Russian: “Санкти-Спириту”
- Spanish: “Fuerte de Sancti Spiritu”
- Spanish: “Fuerte Sancti Spiritu”
- Spanish: “Fuerte Sancti Spiritus”
- Spanish: “Sancti Spiritu”
- Spanish: “Sancti Spíritu”
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