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Encyclopedia Britannica



CORRIENTES (San Juan de Corrientes)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 197 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CORRIENTES (San Juan de Corrientes) , a city and river port, and the
capital
  of the above province, in the north of the Argentine Republic, on the left bank of the Parana river, 20 M. below the junction of the Upper Parana and
Paraguay
 , and 832 M. N. of Buenos Aires. The name is derived from the siete
corrientes
  (seven currents) caused by rocks in the bed of the river just above the town. Pop. (1895) 16,129; (19o7 local estimate) 30,172, largely Indian and of mixed descent. The
appearance
  of
Corrientes
  is not equal to its commercial and political importance, the buildings both public and private being generally poor and antiquated. There are four churches, the more conspicuous of which are the Matriz and San Francisco. The government
house
 , originally a Jesuit college, is an antiquated structure surrounding an open court (
patio
 ). There is a national college. The commercial importance of Corrientes results from its unusually favourable situation near the confluence of the Upper Parana and
Paraguay
 , and a short distance below the mouth of the Bermejo. The navigation of the Upper Parana and Bermejo rivers begins here, and freight for the Upper Parana and Chaco rivers is transhipped at Corrientes, which practically controls the
trade
  of the extensive regions tributary to them. Corrientes is the western terminus of the Argentine North-Eastern railway, which crosses the province S.E. to Monte Caseros, where it connects with the
East
  Argentine line running S. to Concordia and N. to San Tome. The principal exports are timber, cereals, mate, sugar, tobacco, hides, jerked beef,jruit and quebracho.


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