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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE |
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CORRIENTES , a north-eastern province of the Argentine Republic, and part of a region known as the Argentine Mesopotamia
Paraguay
Misiones
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
Uruguay 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
Misiones
capital ; 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
Uruguay 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
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