Corrientes Province Corrientes Province Corrientes (, ‘currents’ or ‘streams’; ) is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by (from the north, clockwise): Paraguay, the province of Misiones, Brazil, Uruguay, and the provinces of Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Chaco. Before the arrival of the Spanish conquest, the Kaingang, Charrua and Guaraní lived in a big area that also covered most of the current province of Corrientes. The city of Corrientes was founded on April 3, 1588 by Juan Torres de Vera y Aragón as a mid-stop between Asunción and Buenos Aires; the city flourished thanks to
Geography of Rosario Geography of Rosario This article is about the geography and urban structure of Rosario, which is the largest city of the , and the third most populous in the country, after Córdoba and Buenos Aires. It is located about 300 km north of Buenos Aires, on the Western shore of the Paraná River, and it has about 910,000 inhabitants. It is surrounded by smaller cities and towns that form a metropolitan area (Greater Rosario) with a population of about 1.2 million according to the . The municipality of Rosario measures 178.69 square kilometres (not all of them are fully urbanized).