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Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera ( 1528  17 August 1574 ) was a ___MASK55___ Conquistador , early colonial governor over much of what today is northwestern Argentina , and founder of the city of Córdoba . Córdoba is a city located in the geographical center of Argentina , in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River , about northwest of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires . It is the capital of Córdoba Province and the second most populous city in Argentina after Buenos Aires , with about 1 , 330 , 023 inhabitants according to the 2010 census . It was founded on 6 July 1573 by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera , who named it after Córdoba , ___MASK30___ . It was one of the first ___MASK55___ colonial capitals of the region that is now Argentina ( the oldest city is Santiago del Estero , founded in 1553 ). The National University of Córdoba is the oldest university of the country and the second to be inaugurated in Latin America . It was founded in 1613 by the Jesuit Order . Because of this , Córdoba earned the nickname " La Docta " ( roughly translated , " the learned one "). Santiago del Estero ( ___MASK55___ for " Saint - James - Upon - The - Lagoon ") is the capital of Santiago del Estero Province in northern Argentina . It has a population of 244 , 733 inhabitants , making it the twelfth largest city in the country , with a surface area of 2 , 116 km² . It lies on the Dulce River and on National Route 9 , at a distance of 1 , 042 km north - northwest from Buenos Aires . Estimated to be 455 years old , Santiago del Estero was the first city founded by ___MASK55___ settlers in the territory that is now Argentina . As such , it is nicknamed " Madre de Ciudades " ( Mother of Cities ). Similarly , it has been officially declared the " mother of cities and cradle of folklore ." ___MASK30___ , officially the Kingdom of ___MASK30___ , is a sovereign state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . The National University of Córdoba ( UNC ), founded in 1613 , is the oldest university in Argentina , the fourth oldest in South America and the sixth oldest in ___MASK50___ America . It is located in Córdoba , the capital of Córdoba Province . Since the early 20th century it has been the second largest university in the country ( after the University of Buenos Aires ) in terms of the number of students , faculty , and academic programs . As the location of the first university founded in the land that is now Argentina , Córdoba has earned the nickname La Docta ( roughly translated , " The Wise "). Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is a federal republic in the southern half of South America . Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with its neighbor Chile to the west , the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north , Brazil to the northeast , Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east , and the Drake Passage to the south . With a mainland area of , Argentina is the eighth - largest country in the world , the second largest in ___MASK50___ America , and the largest ___MASK55___ - speaking one . The country is subdivided into twenty - three provinces ( singular " provincia ") and one autonomous city (" ciudad autónoma "), Buenos Aires , which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress . The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions , but exist under a federal system . María Cristina Cremer de Busti , née María Cristina Cremer , ( b . Córdoba , Argentina ) is an Argentine Justicialist politician . She is a national deputy for her province of Entre Ríos . Her husband , Jorge Busti , is a former governor and senator for that province . Cremer was known as ' Mary ' until coming to live in Entre Ríos at the age of 24 in 1976 when people began to call her ' Cristina ' . Cremer and Busti married in 1974 and have three children and three grandchildren . She studied four years of a law career at the Universidad Católica de Córdoba where she was active in the Peronist Youth . Cremer was director of the Provincial Disability Institute until her election as deputy in 2007 , heading the list of the Front for Victory . Her husband ended his term as governor at the same election . There had been speculation that she would stand as governor herself . In Congress she is the 1st Vice President of the Committee on Natural Resources and Human Environment . ___MASK50___ America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Americas where ___MASK14___ are predominant . The term originated in 19th century France as " Amérique latine " to consider French - speaking territories in the Americas ( Haiti , French Guiana , Martinique , Guadeloupe , Saint Martin , Saint Barthélemy ) along with the larger group of countries where ___MASK55___ and ___MASK16___ languages prevailed . It is therefore broader than the terms Ibero - America or Hispanic America  though it usually excludes French Canada and modern French Louisiana .