San Cristóbal is a city in the center-north of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, 179 km north-northwest from the provincial capital. It had about 14,000 inhabitants at the 2010 census and it is the head town of the San Cristóbal Department. The town was founded in 1890 and the attained the status of comuna on 1894-01-21. It became a city on 1959-03-01.