In a place not very distant of the provincial capital they are the ruins of Santa Fé the old one, to 5 kilometers of Cayastá. In that area that was dominated by two tribes, the calchines and the mocoretás, gift Juan of Garay raised the roll (a tree trunk), symbol of the justice and the real power, around which built the city of Santa Fé of the Vera Cruz. It had a Square of Weapons, their streets were right and they formed a perfect quadrilateral, and enter their buildings they stood out the town council, the main church and the churches and convents of the Franciscans.

Their residents came from the north, of the primitive Santa Fé; their name arose of the image of the Rosario's virgin that the father Alzugaray placed in the chapel of the Rosario of the Payment of the Streams, like It called himself to the place. Here the general Belgrano settled down in 1812 with the army of the oriental Band and creó the National Flag.

Foundation of colonies like the local rulers were aware of the wealth of their floor and to promote their poblamiento, in January of 1853 It took place a colonization contract among the provincial government, for then presided over by Frizzy Domingo and gift Aaron Castellano. For this agreement, Castellano committed to bring a thousand European families in the term of ten anuses, and the government, on the other hand, It had to give to each family a lot of 20 blocks of fiscal lands that would spend to belong them after five years.

It should also provide them of horses, work oxen, seven cows and a bull for breeding, and farm instruments. Castellano proceeded then to prepare the trip of Swiss and French settlers, and to little of arriving these to our country, it founded the first colony - agricultural, Esperanza; among the years 1860 and 1880, many settled down more.