Posadas (Argentinian)

Population

At the time of the census of 2001 the number of inhabitants was of 252.981, that is to say an intercensal growth of 25,44% compared to 1991, i.e. definitely more than the national average of almost 10%.

It is the most populated city province of Misiones and its administrative, commercial and cultural center. The origin of the city is the existence of a port on Río Paraná. But its growth was late because the province was one of the last territories of Argentina to be become populated. However currently it is one of the most active cities and showing the strongest demographic dynamism of all the area of the Argentinian North-East. Its influence extends on the town of Garupá, with which it forms the Gran Posadas . The Pont San Roque González de Santa Cruz, built with the top of Río Paraná links it in the city close to Encarnación, with the Paraguay.

The city is also the seat of évêché of Posadas (Diocese of Posadas), which designated as owner of the city San Jose Obrero.

Geography

In the beginning the town of Posadas occupied only the zone of gallery-forest which runs along Paraná (one nothing broader than elsewhere in this place), but its strong growth made that it overflowed on the areas of typical savanna of the south of the province of Misiones. The relief presents hills not very high, but with sometimes abrupt unevennesses, except in the zone very close to the river. The urban surface extends on 8 km towards the south at the beginning from the river and on 6 km in the west from the elbow carried out here by Río Paraná.

Río Paraná

The city is installed on a basaltic solid mass of a very strong resistance to erosion. Thousands of years ago, this solid mass formed an insuperable barrier for the river which turned then on the left (in the east) and thus continued its race to emerge in the Atlantic some share in the state Brésil IEN of Rio Grande C Sul or more probably in the current valley of the Uruguay. Then the river was collected at this place by an affluent of current Paraguay and started to follow the course that we know to him. It is this solid mass and its crossing which caused the double turn with 90° river, initially towards north, then towards the west thanks to what the city is surrounded by Eau in the east and north.

The bank of the Río Paraná is very different in the sector is bank, compared to northern sector. In the east most of this bank makes up of low grounds, while in north it consists of abrupt cliffs which form a very impressive and picturesque landscape. With the result that it is very required by the easy classes of the city, while the bank is point of disjunction of the popular quarters.

The lake of the Barrage of Yacyretá currently extends until the western limits from the city reaching Garupá. But it is expected that the level of reserve goes up 7 meters soon, which will cause important change in the local aspect, especially on northern bank (fashionable districts) where one already dislodged the inhabitants of the edge of water, and on the level of the confluences of the rivers (which abounds in this extremely sprinkled area). One already built the avenida Costanera (bordering avenue) by taking account of this future rise of the Eau X.

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