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Paso De Los Libres
Paso de los Libres is a city in the east of the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It had about 44,000 inhabitants at the , and is the head town of the department of the same name. The city is on the right-hand (western) shore of the Uruguay River, opposite the city of Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to which it is joined by a road and railway bridge ( Paso de los Libres-Uruguaiana International Bridge). The area is served by Paso de los Libres Airport. Climate Consular representation Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ... has a Consulate in Paso de los Libres. References External links * Populated places in Corrientes Province Uruguay River Cities in Argentina {{Corrientes-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Argentina
This is a list of city, cities in Argentina. List of Argentine cities Over 150,000 inhabitants 45,000 to 150,000 inhabitants This is a list of the localities of Argentina of 45,000 to 150,000 inhabitants ordered by amount of population according to the data of the 2001 INDEC Census. * San Nicolás de los Arroyos (Buenos Aires) 133,602 * San Rafael, Mendoza, San Rafael (Mendoza) 104,782 * Rafael Castillo, Buenos Aires, Rafael Castillo (Buenos Aires) 103,992 * Trelew (Chubut) 103,305 * Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Santa Rosa (La Pampa) 101,987 * Tandil (Buenos Aires) 101,010 * Villa Mercedes, San Luis, Villa Mercedes (San Luis) 97,000 * Puerto Madryn (Chubut) 93,995 * Morón (Buenos Aires) 92,725 * Virrey del Pino (Buenos Aires) 90,382 * Caseros, Buenos Aires, Caseros (Buenos Aires) 90,313 * San Carlos de Bariloche (Río Negro) 90,000 * Maipú, Mendoza, Maipú (Mendoza) 89,433 * Zárate, Buenos Aires Province, Zárate (Buenos Aires) 86,686 * Burzaco (Buenos Aires) 86,113 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesopotamia, Argentina
The Mesopotamia or Región Mesopotámica is the humid and verdant area of northeast Argentina, comprising the provinces of Misiones Province, Misiones, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, and Corrientes Province, Corrientes. The landscape and its characteristics are dominated by two rivers: the Paraná River, Paraná and the Uruguay River, Uruguay.Lewis, p. 2 When Spanish settlers came to the area, the two parallel rivers and the lush area between them drew comparisons to Mesopotamia (Ancient Greek, Greek: Μεσοποταμία "land between rivers") in modern-day Iraq, and it was decided that the Argentine region be named after the Iraqi region. The region shares many of its ecological features with neighboring regions of Argentina and with parts of Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Mesopotamia has some of the most popular tourist attractions in Argentina, mainly the Iguazu Falls, Iguazú Falls, the Iguazú National Park, and the Society of Jesus, Jesuit mission stations in Misio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monumento Al General Madariaga, Paso De Los Libres
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Monumento may refer to: * ''Monumento'' (album), a 2008 album by Dakrya * "Monumento", a 2018 song by Kyla from ''The Queen of R&B'' * Monumento, a district in Caloocan, Philippines where the Bonifacio Monument is located ** Monumento LRT station, Manila LRT station serving the said area See also ''Monumento'' means monument in Portuguese, Spanish, and Filipino. For relevant articles in Wikipedia see: * Monuments of Portugal * Monument (Spain) The current legislation regarding historical monuments in Spain dates from 1985. However, ''Monumentos nacionales'' (to use the original term) were first designated in the nineteenth century. It was a fairly broad category for national heritage sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (Argentina)
The National Weather Service () is an Argentine government agency under the Ministry of Defense that is tasked with observing, understanding, and predicting the weather and climate in Argentina and its surrounding waters. It provides weather forecasts, radar images, ozone, temperature and rainfall graphs, and satellite images. The purpose of these tasks is to contribute to protection of its inhabitants, sustainable economic development and to provide representation of Argentina to international meteorological organizations. Founded on 4 October 1872 by Federal law Nº559 during the presidency of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the organisation was the first meteorological organisation in South America and the third one in the world, after Hungary and the United States which were created in 1870 and 1871 respectively. It became a member of the World Meteorological Organization on 2 January 1951. Throughout its history, the organisation was dependent under different government ministr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paso De Los Libres Airport
Paso de los Libres Airport () is an international airport serving Paso de los Libres, a town on the Uruguay River in Corrientes Province, Argentina. The airport is west of the city, and from the river, which is locally the border between Argentina and Brazil. The airfield covers an area of and has a terminal. The Paso De Los Libres non-directional beacon (Ident: LIB) is located on the field. See also * * * Transport in Argentina *List of airports in Argentina This is a list of airports in Argentina, sorted by location. Airports ICAO location identifiers link to airport page at Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos' (ORSNA), where availableMap of airports. Airport names shown in bol ... References External linksOpenStreetMap - Paso de los Libres Airport* * Airports in Corrientes Province {{Argentina-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paso De Los Libres-Uruguaiana International Bridge
Paso or PASO may refer to: People * Fernando del Paso (born 1935), Mexican novelist * Juan José Paso, (1758–1833), Argentine politician Other uses * Paso (float), an elaborate float made for religious processions * Paso (theatre), a seventeenth-century Spanish one-act comic scene * Peruvian Paso, a breed of light saddle horse * Paso Fino, a naturally-gaited light horse breed * Paso, a Spanish customary unit of length * Paso, replaced by the longyi, traditional Burmese clothing * "Paso (The Nini Anthem)", a 2012 song by Sak Noel * Ducati Paso, a motorcycle * Pacific Aviation Safety Office (PASO), an intergovernmental civil aviation authority * Pan American Sports Organization (PASO), an international organization * Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra (PASO), a Hungarian band *''Primarias Abiertas Simultáneas y Obligatorias(PASO)'', a blanket primary system used in Argentina * Seldovia Airport, Alaska, U.S., (ICAO airport code PASO) See also * El Paso (other) * Passo ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population, seventh-largest by population, with over 212 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 Federative units of Brazil, states and a Federal District (Brazil), Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília. List of cities in Brazil by population, Its most populous city is São Paulo, followed by Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has the most Portuguese-speaking countries, Portuguese speakers in the world and is the only country in the Americas where Portuguese language, Portuguese is an Portuguese-speaking world, official language. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazil, coastline of . Covering roughly half of South America's land area, it Borders of Brazil, borders all other countries and ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Grande Do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul (, ; ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative units of Brazil#List, fifth-most populous state and the List of Brazilian states by area, ninth-largest by area and it is divided into 497 municipalities. Located in the southernmost part of the country, Rio Grande do Sul is bordered clockwise by Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Uruguayan Departments of Uruguay, departments of Rocha Department, Rocha, Treinta y Tres Department, Treinta y Tres, Cerro Largo Department, Cerro Largo, Rivera Department, Rivera, and Artigas Department, Artigas to the south and southwest, and the Argentina, Argentine Provinces of Argentina, provinces of Corrientes Province, Corrientes and Misiones Province, Misiones to the west and northwest. The capital and largest city is Porto Alegre. The state has the highest lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uruguaiana
Uruguaiana is a city and municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is located on the eastern shore of the Uruguay River bordering Argentina. Opposite to Uruguaiana, and joined to it by a road/railway bridge, lies the Argentine city of Paso de los Libres, Corrientes. North of Uruguaiana lies the Brazilian municipality of Itaqui, connected by a bridge constructed by the British in 1888 over the Ibicuí River. The municipality also borders the municipalities of Alegrete, Barra do Quaraí and Quaraí, and, also, Uruguay, making it one of the few international triple-border municipalities of Brazil. The city marks the southernmost point reached by the Paraguayans in the Paraguayan War; after being taken without resistance, it was recaptured after a six-week siege that effectively ended the phase of Paraguayan offensive operations. Nowadays, Uruguaiana represents the biggest in population and arguably most important municipality of the sparsely populated western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uruguay River
The Uruguay River ( ; ) is a major river in South America. It flows from north to south and forms parts of the boundaries of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of La Mesopotamia from the other two countries. It passes between the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil; forms the eastern border of the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes and Entre Ríos in Argentina; and makes up the western borders of the departments of Artigas, Salto, Paysandú, Río Negro, Soriano and Colonia in Uruguay. Etymology The name of the river tends to comes from the Spanish settlers' interpretation of the Guaraní language word the inhabitants of the region used to designate it. There are several interpretations, including "the river of the uru (an indigenous bird)", and " iver ofthe uruguá" (an indigenous gastropod, '' Pomella megastoma''). Course The river measures about in length and starts in the Serra do Mar in Brazil, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departments Of Argentina
Departments () form the second level of administrative division (below the Provinces of Argentina, provinces), and are subdivided in Municipalities of Argentina, municipalities. They are extended in all of Argentina except for the Buenos Aires Province, Province of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the national capital, each of which has different administrative arrangements (respectively Partidos of Buenos Aires, ''partidos'' and Communes of Buenos Aires, ''comunas''). Except in La Rioja Province, Argentina, La Rioja, Mendoza Province, Mendoza, and San Juan Province, Argentina, San Juan Provinces, departments have no executive authorities or assemblies of their own. However, they serve as territorial constituencies for the election of members of the legislative bodies of most provinces. For example, in Santa Fe Province, each department returns one senator to the provincial senate. In Tucumán Province, on the other hand, where legislators are e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the List of countries and dependencies by area, eighth-largest country in the world. Argentina shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a Federation, federal state subdivided into twenty-three Provinces of Argentina, provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and List of cities in Argentina by population, largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a Federalism, federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
