Alcorta is a town (''comuna'') in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 7,450 inhabitants, according to the census, and lies in the south of the province, on National Route 178, south-southwest of

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous ci ...

and south of the provincial capital Santa Fe. Alcorta was founded in 1892 by Juan Bernardo Iturraspe and is best known as the starting point of the first large-scale agrarian strike in the history of Argentina, called the ''

Grito de Alcorta The Cry of Alcorta ( es, Grito de Alcorta) was an agrarian rebellion that took place in 1912 in Alcorta, Argentina. The rebels were primarily immigrants from Spain or from Italy. It began at the south of the Santa Fe Province, with requests of bett ...

'', which began on 25 June 1912 and subsequently gave rise to the foundation of the

Argentine Agrarian Federation Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish language, Spanish (Grammatical gender, masculine) or (Grammatical gender, feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be resident ...

. Union leader José Ignacio Rucci was born in Alcorta.

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* * Populated places in Santa Fe Province {{SantaFeAR-geo-stub