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History

Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the territory was populated various ethnos groups and tribes, mainly the Chana S, the Guaraní S and the Charrúa S. These people were before any nomads (except for Guaranís). Their activities were hunting, fishing and the gathering. Only Guaranís practiced a rudimentary agriculture.

The first European to explore the territory was certain Rodríguez Serrano, which in 1520 naviga on Río Uruguay seeking a passage towards the Pacific Ocean. In 1528, Juan Álvarez Ramón made the same course reaching there the place where the town of Concordia is today.

The first colonists were established in the current department of Paz, on the edges of the Paraná at the end of the XVIe century. Hernandarias, as a governor of Asunción then of Buenos Aires, led forwardings on the ground of the province.

In the middle of the XVIIe century, a group of inhabitants of Santa Fe were established on the banks of Paraná. Thus started to build the provincial capital. One attended then also the settlement of the localities which were going to become the towns of Nogoyá, Victoria, Gualeguay, Gualeguaychú, Concepción LED Uruguay and Concordia.

In 1776, the Vice-royauté of Río of Plata was founded. The territory among Ríos was built-in there like part of the Intendance of Buenos Aires.

In 1783, the viceroy Juan Jose de Vértiz there Salcedo, anxious of the proximity of the Portuguese in the area, sent Tomás Rocamora to explore the territory. This one was given the responsability to found in a correct way the towns of Gualeguay, Gualeguaychú and Concepción LED Uruguay. It was also the first to use the term of " Between Ríos". Between Rios belonged to Uruguay and was protected by Artigas. At the time of the Revolution of May, the populations of the province adhered to the process of emancipation. At the time of the countryside of Paraguay, Paraná lodged the campings of the troops of the general Manuel Belgrano.

September 29th 1820, the governor Francisco Ramírez proclaimed the República of Between Ríos , within the framework of provincial autonomies. This situation will perdura until its died, on July 10th 1821.

When Buenos Aires separated from the remainder of the Argentine as an independent state, Justo Jose de Urquiza fixed the capital of the Argentinian Confédération at Paraná, transferring the provincial capital to Concepción LED Uruguay.

Principal cities

The figures of population are those of the census of 2001 provided stake the INDEC.

Paraná (237.968)
Concordia (141.971)
Gualeguaychú (76.220)
Concepción LED Uruguay (67.464)
Gualeguay (39.035)
Villaguay (32.027)
Chajarí (30.655)
Victoria (28.492)
La Paz (24.716)
Nogoyá (22.285)
Colón (21.100)
Set with diamonds (19.541)
Santa Elena (18.410)
Crespo (18.296)
Federal (16.333)
San Jose (14.965)
Rosario LED Catholic student (13.807)
Federación (13.789)
San Salvador (11.626)
San Jose de Feliciano (11.137)

Administrative division

Since the creation of the department of San Salvador, the province is divided into ten seven departments:

Geography

The province among Ríos forms with those of Misiones and Corrientes the area of Mésopotamie Argentina. It has a relief plane with soft undulations called lomadas or hills : Large Lomada (in the east) and Lomada de Montiel (in the west). Its vegetation before is very made of what is called the Monte espinal :

In fact vegetable formations have like principal characteristic to be very bulky, what makes difficult the passage of the man assembled to horse or board a car. There are assemble in the center and the North-West of the province. The species which form them are the ñandubay, the Prosopis alba or Algarrobo , the Espinillo, the '' Geoffroea decorticans '' or chañar, the micocoulier '' celtis Catholic student or spinosa '', the '' schinus soft '' or soft, the lapacho or '' tabebuia '' and the '' enterolobium contortisiliquum '' or timbó.

One finds there also forests galleries along the rivers:

Climate

The characteristic climates are the subtropical climate without dry season, with north, and the moderate climate pampéen in the south. The province knows winds come from the Atlantic, in addition to local winds like the pampero , the sudestada and the wind of north. It has abundant precipitations, with an average of at least 900 mm annually. The average temperature in summer is of 20º C, from November to March. In winter, the temperature is of 10 with 13º C.

Water resources

The name of the province reflects the fact in fact that its limits are given by rivers, important:

in the west and the south, the Río Paraná
in the east, the Río Uruguay
in the north of the less important rivers, the Río Guayquiraró and the Río Mocoretá.

Towards the south is the Delta of Paraná with low grounds and many islands.

Economy

As many Argentinas provinces it is the agro-alimentary one which prevails:

Agricultural activity: is characterized by the cultures of Riz, of Soja, Blé, Maïs and citrus fruits. It is the first producing province of Mandarine S and oranges, and the second of Pamplemousse S.

Activities of breeding : there is a clear prevalence of the sector Bovin and Volaille S. To a lesser extent the breeding of the Ovin S exists too.

Industrial activity : industry has a close link with the sectors agricultural and of breeding, with making of food and drinks. There exist also industries in relation to wood, the chemicals, the metallurgy and the production of machines.

External bonds

Beats-smg: Between Rijosa provincėjė

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