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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON |
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RIO NEGRO , a territory of Argentina lying between, the Colorado river and the 42nd parallel S. lat., within the geographical area formerly known as Patagonia, bounded N. by the. territories of Neuquen. and La Pampa, E. by the province of Buenos Aires and the Atlantic
(1904, estimate) 18,648. That part of it lying between the Colorado and Negro rivers has much of the formation and characteristics of the " sterile pampas," but with irrigation the greater part of it can be utilized for agriculture
South
great
Atlantic
supply . The rivers of the territory are the Colorado, which forms a part of its northern boundary, and the Negro, formed by thec cone
steppes
coast
capital is Viedma (pop. in 1895, estimate, 1soo), on the right bank of the Rio Negro, 22 M. from its mouth and opposite Carmen de Patagones, a town and port of Buenos Aires. There are other small settlements on the Rio Negro, which is navigable up to the Neuquen frontier (about 450 m.), but the only place of importance-is General Roca (about 2300), a military and supply station situated a few miles below the confluence of the Limay and Neuquen rivers and connected with Bahia Blanca and Buenos Aires by a branch of the Great
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