The town was founded on 9 September 1886 by José Bernardo Iturraspe, as part of a colonization plan of the provincial government.

It was also at this time that the city was connected by Route 19 with the provincial capitals of Córdoba and Santa Fe.

However, there are also many metal work factories that create electrical panels (WEG [1]), parts for cars (ZF SACHS [2]), and tolvas (AKRON [3]).

It is a large cooperative made up many smaller ones, based on the Argentine "central milk basin" around the border between the provinces of Santa Fe and Córdoba.

Grupo Arcor is a food company specialized in confectionery founded on July 5, 1951 in the city of Arroyito, Córdoba, Argentina.

[citation needed] In 2005, Arcor had 31 manufacturing plants, with 27 in Argentina alone and the remaining spread among Brazil, Chile and Peru.