Capitán Bermúdez

• Name — Capitán Bermúdez • Settlement Type — City • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Argentina • Subdivision Type1 — Province • Subdivision Name1 — Santa Fe • Subdivision Type2 — Department • Subdivision Name2 — San Lorenzo • Leader Party — PJ • Leader Title — Intendant • Leader Name — Daniel Cinalli • Unit Pref — Metric • Area Total Km2 — 12 • Population Total — 29218 • Population As Of — 2010 census • Population Density Km2 — auto • Timezone1 — ART • Utc Offset1 — −3 • Postal Code Type — CPA base • Postal Code — S2154 • Area Code Type — Dialing code • Area Code — +54 341

The town was founded in 1889, and officially became a city in 1971. Its name is an homage to Justo Bermúdez, a captain of the rebel forces of General José de San Martín during the Battle of San Lorenzo. The city hosts important industries that make use of environmentally harmful chemicals, including a petrochemical plant and a paper mill. According to studies conducted in the 1990s by Greenpeace, the paper plant (property of Celulosa S. A.) is responsible for contaminating the Paraná River with chlorine-derived chemicals and others (methoxyphenols such as chloro-guaiacol, di- and tri-chloro-phenols, alkylbenzenes, sulfur compounds, long-chain hydrocarbons, and chloroform). Similar charges have been made about the petrochemical plant Electroclor, owned by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), which manufactures chlorine. In 1991, fragments of the Soviet Union's Salyut 7 space station showered the town after burning up on re-entry. It had overshot its intended entry point, which would have placed its debris in uninhabited portions of the southern Pacific Ocean.

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