Arequito, Santa Fe
Arequito is a town in the south of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, southwest from the provincial capital and west of Rosario. It has a population of about 7,000 inhabitants as per the.
The town was founded initially as a waystop by Braulio Areco in 1778. He ended up using a diminutive of his surname because there were already two postas de Areco in Buenos Aires. 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 during the second half of the 19th century, and became a highly productive agricultural area. Since 1970 it produces soybean.
Arequito became nationally known in the 1990s as the hometown of the young folk singer and composer Soledad Pastorutti.
