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'''San Nicolás de los Arroyos''' (usually shortened to ''San Nicolás'') is a city in the [[provinces of Argentina|province]] of [[Buenos Aires Province|Buenos Aires]], Argentina, on the western shore of the [[Paraná River]], {{convert|61|km|abbr=on}} from [[Rosario]]. It has about 133,000 inhabitants ({{census-ar|2010}}). It is the administrative seat of the ''[[Partidos of Buenos Aires|partido]]'' of the same name. It is sometimes called ''Ciudad de María'' (City of Mary) due to a series of Marian apparitions that led to the erection of the Sanctuary in honor of [[Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás]] that began during the 1980s and were approved by Bishop Cardelli of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos|diocese]] as "worthy of belief" in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=httphttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/33982/a-marian-apparition-has-been-approved-in-argentina---and-its-a-big-deal-31979/|title=A Marian apparition has been approved in Argentina - and it's a big deal|access-date=2017-01-23|archive-date=2020-11-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125003358/https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/a-marian-apparition-has-been-approved-in-argentina---and-its-a-big-deal-31979|url-status=live}}</ref>