Ataliva is a town in the department of Castellanos in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.

[1] It is the tenth most populated town in the Castellanos department; and the 106th in the province of Santa Fe.

Since it was not in a good location due to the constant presence of quarrelsome gauchos, it was moved one kilometre to its present site.

Its urban physiognomy is characterized by an architecture of low houses, where wide streets, avenues and sidewalks with a leafy vegetation of trees of different species stand out.

It is located within the Cululú stream basin, which is the main collector of several tributaries and flows into the Salado River, northwest of the city of Esperanza.

In spring they blow with increasing force mainly from the north and northeast as a centre of cyclonic depression is defined in the polar front.

On the other hand, fog during the winter is characteristic and hail is a normal phenomenon that, given its low intensity and strength, rarely presents significant problems.

The territory where the city is located today, as well as all the west of Santa Fe, was inhabited by nomadic tribes.

This city surpassed 1000 inhabitants at the end of the 18th century, but soon it entered in decadence by the continuous harassment of the native tribes of the place.

[3] The Executive Power in Ataliva is exercised by the communal president, elected by popular vote every four years.