San Isidro de Lules, or, ''Lules'', as the town is colloquially known, is a settlement in
Tucumán Province
Tucumán () is the most densely populated, and the second-smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina.
Located in the northwest of the country, the province has the capital of San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neig ...
in northern
Argentina
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, and the seat of the department (county) of the same name.
Lules was founded by the parish priest of
Famaillá
Famaillá is a city in the province of Tucumán, Argentina, located 30 km south from the provincial capital San Miguel de Tucumán. It has 22,924 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the Famaillá Department.
The city is called ...
, Dr. Zoilo Domínguez, on November 20, 1851, on the site of a former
Jesuit reduction
Reductions ( es, reducciones, also called ; , pl. ) were settlements created by Spanish rulers and Roman Catholic missionaries in Spanish America and the Spanish East Indies (the Philippines). In Portuguese-speaking Latin America, such redu ...
as an agricultural community, and named it in honor of the
patron saint
A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholic Church, Catholicism, Anglicanism, or Eastern Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocacy, advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, ...
of farmers,
Saint Isidore the Laborer
Isidore the Labourer, also known as Isidore the Farmer ( es, San Isidro Labrador) (c. 1070 – May 15, 1130), was a Spanish farmworker known for his piety toward the poor and animals. He is the Catholic patron saint of farmers and of Madrid ...
(''San Isidro''), as well as for the area's indigenous people, the Lules tribe. Though Domínguez bequeathed the land to his five sons upon his death in 1865, he also intended to create a functioning community, and lots around the town square were auctioned to Lules Indians and other area residents. Domínguez also had a school and a
Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...
parish built, and the town was officially recognized as such by the province in 1887.
The town and surrounding fields became an important center of
blueberry and
strawberry
The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; ''Fragaria × ananassa'') is a widely grown hybrid species of the genus '' Fragaria'', collectively known as the strawberries, which are cultivated worldwide for their fruit. The fruit is widely a ...
production, and during the 20th century, Lules became home to numerous
food processing
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plants, including makers of fresh and concentrated juices, as well as paper and textile mills, among others.
Lules.gov: Actividad Productiva
References
External links
Municipal website
{{Authority control
Populated places in Tucumán Province
Populated places established in 1851
1851 establishments in Argentina