SAN

See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

NICOLAS DE LOS ARROYOS  , a town and river port of Argentina, in the province of Buenos Aires, on the W. bank of the Parana, 150 M. by rail N.W. of the city of Buenos Aires . Pop . (1904, estimate), 18,000 . It is a flourishing commercial town, and a port of call both for river and ocean-going steamers of medium tonnage . It is a station on the Buenos Aires & Rosario, and the terminus of a branch from Pergamino of the Central Argentine railway, and exports wheat, flour, wool and frozen mutton . The town is the judicial centre for the northern district of Buenos Aires . San Nicolas was founded in 1749 by Jose de Aguillar on lands given for that purpose by his wife (nee Ugarte) . Its growth was very slow until near the end of the 19th century .