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Colonia Caroya is a city in the north of the province of Córdoba, Argentina. It is a linear city, crossed by Avenida San Martín, a 9-kilometer-long artery covered with Spanish plane trees (the most largest in the country with this characteristic).

History
Colonia Caroya arose at the initiative of the Argentine president Nicolás Avellaneda (famous promoter of European immigration to Argentina), who after visiting the area for the inauguration of the FF.CC. Central del Norte, which linked Córdoba with Tucumán, passes through the lands of the Caroya ranch founded by the Jesuits in 1616.

The story goes that Nicolás Avellaneda, as a student at the Monserrat School, had spent many vacations at said ranch, which is why he became interested in the area and asked what he could do for it, to which he received a suggestion from his cousin and friend Nemesio González, the owner. of the San Isidro ranch, of founding a colony with irrigation with Italian farmers. Upon his return to Buenos Aires, Avellaneda sent the bill to Congress, creating the colony, by Law of July 10, 1876, for which part of the lands of the old ranch were allocated. Through the General Department of Immigration and through the Embassy of the Kingdom of Italy, a formal call was made to the Italian people to settle in the new colony.

In mid-September 1877, a contingent of Italian families from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region was hired and embarked in December in the port of Genoa, to travel to the Argentine agricultural colonies. These Friulian immigrants arrived at the port of Buenos Aires on January 14, 1878.