Barrio Pichincha

Pichincha is a barrio (small district or neighbourhood) in the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina.

It is located on the north-east part of the central area of the city, and its limits are Vera Mujica St., Cordoba St., Oroño Boulevard, and Del Valle Avenue.

[1] The assembling of this barrio was motivated by the growth of the railway lines and the activity at the port due to agricultural exports, in the 19th century.

The most important point in the neighbourhood was the Sunchales train station (now Rosario Norte), which marked the border between the populated urbanization and the developing suburbia.

At the beginning of the 2000s, the municipal government revised history and rolled back the change, although the name Ricchieri still appears in most street signs as of 2006.