La Carlota ( Spanish: La Carlota ) is a city and municipality in the Juarez Selman department of the province of Cordoba ( Argentina ), the administrative center of the department.
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| A country |  Argentina | ||||
| Provinces | Cordoba | ||||
| The Department | Juarez Selman | ||||
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| Telephone code | +54 03584 | ||||
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History
In the middle of the 18th century, the fortification of Punta del Sauce was erected here, near which families of soldiers and officers stationed there settled. In 1737 a church was built. In 1787, the new Punta del Sauce fort was built to replace the old fortification. In 1789, the governor of the commissariat of Cordoba del Tucuman, Marquis Rafael de Sobremonte, established a village in this place. In 1797, the Spanish king Charles IV granted a royal certificate, raising the status of the village of Punta del Sauze to the royal city, which received the name of La Carlota in honor of the monarch.
After the English invasion was repelled in 1806, captured English were settled here.
Due to the location on the path connecting Buenos Aires and Cuyo , La Carlota has visited Jose de San Martin more than once. It was from here that in 1819 he wrote a refusal to the High Director Jose Rondo to return to Buenos Aires to participate in the civil war and announced that he was leaving for Chile in order to prepare for the liberation of Peru .