CORRIENTES

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CORRIENTES , a north-eastern province of the Argentine Republic, and part of a region known as the Argentine

Mesopotamia

MESOPOTAMIA (Mevoaora)

, bounded N. by

Paraguay

PARAGUAY

, N.E. by

Misiones

MISIONES

(territory), E. by Brazil, S. by Entre Rios, and W. by Santa Fe and the
Chaco. Pop. (1895) 239,618; (1904 estimate) 299,479; area, 32,580 sq. m. Nearly one-third of the province is covered by swamps and lagoons, or is so little above their level as to be practically unfit for permanent

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

unless drained. The Ibera lagoon (c. 85oo sq. m., according to the Argentine Year Book for 1905-1906) includes a large part of the central and north-eastern departments, and the Maloya lagoon covers a large part of the north-western departments. Several streams flowing into the Parana and

Uruguay

URUGUAY (officially the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, and long locally called the Banda Oriental, meaning the land on the eastern side of the river Uruguay, from which the country takes its name)

have their sources in these lagoons, the Ibera sending its waters in both directions. The southern districts of the province, however, are high and

rolling

ROLLING

, similar to the neighbouring departments of Entre Rios, and are admirably adapted to grazing and agriculture. The north-eastern corner is also high, but it is broken by ranges of hills and is heavily forested, like the adjacent territory of

Misiones

MISIONES

. The climate on the higher plains is sub-tropical, but in the northern swamps it is essentially tropical. Corrientes is the hottest province of Argentina, notwithstanding its large area of water and forest. The exports include cattle and horses, jerked beef, hides, timber and firewood, cereals and fruit. The principal towns are Corrientes, the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

; Goya, a flourishing agricultural town (1906 estimate, 7000) on a side channel of the Parana, 150 M. S. of Corrientes, the seat of a modern normal school and the market-town of a prosperous

district

DISTRICT

; Bella Vista (pop. Igoe, estimate, 3000), prettily situated on the Parana, 8o m. S. of Corrientes, the commercial centre of a large

district

DISTRICT

; Esquina (pop. 1906 estimate, 3000) on the Parana at the mouth of the Corrientes river, 86 m. S. of Goya, which exports timber and firewood from the neighbouring forest of Payubre; Monte Caseros (pop. 1906 estimate, 4000) on the

Uruguay

URUGUAY (officially the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, and long locally called the Banda Oriental, meaning the land on the eastern side of the river Uruguay, from which the country takes its name)

river, from which cattle are shipped to Brazil, the eastern terminus of the Argentine North-Eastern railway (which crosses the province in a N.W. direction to Corrientes), and a station on the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

Argentine railway (which runs northward to Paso de Los Libres, opposite Uruguayana, Brazil and to San Tome, and southward to a junction with the Entre Rios railways). A considerable district on the upper Uruguay was once occupied by prosperous Jesuit missions, all of which fell into decay and ruins after the expulsion of that order from the Spanish possessions in 1767. The population of the province is composed very largely of Indian and mixed races, and Guarani is still the language of the country people.

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