Districts of Rosario
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This article is about the districts of the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. The districts are administrative divisions intended to achieve decentralisation of the workings of the municipal government.
Rosario is divided into six districts, named by their location (note that the Center District is geographically located in the eastern, oldest part of the city, which is called centro "center" for historical reasons). The data given below are as of the 2001 census [INDEC].
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[edit] Justification
The Municipality of Rosario justifies the division of the city into districts as a part of an ambitious program to distribute not only administrative tasks and services but also cultural activities. The idea was put in practice for the first time in 1997 with the opening as a Municipal Center of the old mansion called Villa Hortensia in the northern barrio of Alberdi.
Before that time, most of the commercial, administrative and cultural activity in the city took place in a small area of no more than five square kilometres in the so-called microcentro, and especially in the municipal building (Palacio de los Leones), which meant that most people in the city needed to travel relatively long distances into an already crowded downtown to conduct business. This tended to overwhelm the capacity of the personnel and the facilities. The idea of decentralisation tries to break the center-vs.-periphery model of the city and to bring the municipal government closer to the citizens.
[edit] Municipal District Centers
The Municipal District Centers (Centros Municipales de Distrito, CMD) are intended for multiple activities. Each has an Administrative Services Area (for general citizen requests, communication with the municipal government, real estate records, etc.), an Urban Development Area, and a Socio-cultural and Health Services Area. They also host delegations of the Municipal Bank, the Civil Register (e. g. for civil marriages), the Provincial Tax Administration, and the provincial-level power company (Empresa Provincial de la Energía), water company (Aguas Provinciales de Santa Fe) and natural gas company (Litoral Gas).
As of 2006 there are four CMDs at work: the above mentioned North District Center, Villa Hortensia, the West District CMD Felipe Moré, the South District CMD Rosa Ziperovich, and the Center District CMD Antonio Berni. Other centers are planned, with preliminary paperwork already done for the Northwest District.
[edit] List of districts
[edit] Center District
Population: 261,047
Area: 20.37 km² (11.45% of the Municipality)
Population density: 12,815 inhab/km²
Housing: 110,152 units
[edit] North District
Population: 131,495
Area: 35.02 km² (19.6% of the Municipality)
Population density: 3,744 inhab/km²
Housing: 40,492 units
[edit] Northwest District
Population: 144,461
Area: 44.14 km² (24.7% of the Municipality)
Population density: 3,273 inhab/km²
Housing: 41,740 units
[edit] West District
Population: 106,356
Area: 40.21 km² (22.5% of the Municipality)
Population density: 2,645 inhab/km²
Housing: 31,625 units
[edit] Southwest District
Population: 103,446
Area: 20.19 km² (11.3% of the Municipality)
Population density: 5,123 inhab/km²
Housing: 28,284 units
[edit] South District
Population: 160,771
Area: 18.76 km² (10.5% of the Municipality)
Population density: 8,569 inhab/km²
Housing: 48,541 units
[edit] Source
- Municipality of Rosario - Decentralisation (in Spanish)
