Cayastá Explained

Cayastá
Native Name Lang:es
Settlement Type:Town
Pushpin Map:Argentina
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Cayastá in Argentina
Coordinates:-31.4167°N -80°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Argentina
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Santa Fe
Subdivision Type2:Department
Subdivision Name2:Garay
Unit Pref:Metric
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:3367
Population As Of:2010
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone1:ART
Utc Offset1:-3
Postal Code Type:CPA base
Postal Code:S3001
Area Code Type:Dialing code
Area Code:+54 342

Cayastá is a town (comuna) in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 3,367 inhabitants per the .

The ruins of the primitive City of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, from its foundation until its relocation due to the defences of the native towns and the cyclical floods, are located very close to it (approximately 1.5 kilometres southwards from its centre). Cayastá was a mocoví reduction in 1742.

Toponymy

The word "Cayastá" appears for the first time in an ancient document dating from 1607. For the engineer Augusto Fernández Díaz, the etymology of the toponym "Cayastá" derives from the phonetic transformation of "Kollastas" agglutination of "Kolla" and "Astay" that "denotes" moving, from where Cayastá would be "pueblo colla que se muda". Kolla was one of the villages of Aimaraes, with its own dialect, dominated by the Incas.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ARGENTINA: Cayastá . City Population . 26 December 2013 . 24 February 2021.