27°48S 64°15W, pop (2000e) 224 700. Capital of Santiago del Estero province, N Argentina; on the R Dulce; the oldest Argentine town, founded in 1553 by settlers from Peru; university; railway; airfield; agricultural trade and lumbering centre; cathedral; Gothic Church of San Francisco (founded, 1565), Museo Arqueológico; convent of Santo Domingo contains one of two copies of the Holy Shroud of Turin.
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Santiago del Estero is a city in northern Argentina, the capital of the Santiago del Estero Province.
Culture
Some important figures related of the history of Santiago del Estero are Colonel Juan Francisco Borges, leader of the Independence War (ancestor of writer Jorge Luis Borges), the 19th century painter Felipe Taboada, as well as the revolutionary leaders Mario Roberto and Francisco René Santucho, founders of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (Workers' Revolutionary Party, PRT) and the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP).
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