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	Corrientes Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Corrientes is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region.
		It is surrounded by (from the North, clockwise): Paraguay, the province Misiones, Brazil, and the provinces of Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Chaco.
		Corrientes is surrounded by two rivers, the Uruguay River to the east, and the Paraná River to the northwest, that contour the shape of the province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corrientes_Province (676 words)

	Corrientes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Corrientes is the capital city of the province of Corrientes, Argentina, located on the left-hand (eastern) shore of the Paraná River, about 1,000 km from Buenos Aires and 300 km from Posadas, on National Route 12.
		Corrientes, as the provincial capital, is the most important in the province, its economical centre, and holds the authorities and governmental institutions.
		The "seven currents" refer to the seven peninsulas on the shore of the river at this place, that produced wild currents that made difficult the navigation of the river through this part.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corrientes (0 words)

	Historical documents and naturalists' travel accounts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		CORRIENTES, one of the riverine provinces of the Argentine Confederation, South America, comprehends the northern portion of the peninsula, formed by the rivers Paraná and Uruguay; the southern portion of the peninsula being occupied by the province of Erntre Rios.
		In the northern part of the province is the Laguna Ybera, which is in fact a vast marsh overflowed during the periodic risings of the Paraná.
		The main incitement to these measures on the part of Corrientes was the determination of Rosas to enforce the closing of the Paraná and Uruguay against all foreign vessels; and Corrientes made the opening of the navigation of these rivers a leading object in all negotiations.
	www.bluemacaws.org /hist30.htm (0 words)

	New Argentine government shoots down protesting workers
		Protestors had lined the bridge connecting Corrientes with the neighbouring city of Resistencia to protest against unpaid wages for public servants, with arrears going back months, and the growing economic disaster in the drought-affected province.
		Corrientes is one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the country.
		Mestre will rule Corrientes with a handpicked cabinet and audit the provincial finances, which are in debt to the tune of 1,500 million pesos.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/dec1999/arg-d30.shtml (0 words)

	Widespread public sector strikes in Corrientes, Argentina
		Interior Minister Carlos Corach stated that “the Corrientes province has received the last peso that it is entitled to” and “the nation owes nothing, absolutely nothing to Corrientes".
		The financial crisis in Corrientes underlines the economic situation in Argentina itself, which is rapidly worsening.
		Undoubtedly, this is a factor in the Menem government's prompt dispatch of the paramilitary police to Corrientes, as well as the about-face on its previous refusal to provide financial assistance to the beleaguered Correntino government.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/jun1999/arg-j29.shtml (0 words)

	flag of Corrientes province (Argentina) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Corrientes was set up as a province, separate from the Buenos Aires intendency in September 10th 1814 by Gervasio Posadas.
		A provincial flag was adopted by decision of the artiguist chieftain Coronel Blas Basualdo in January 1815.
		In December 24th 1821 Corrientes Province adopted as provincial flag the national flag with the sun.
	www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/ar-crr.html (0 words)

	Memórias on line
		A sample of 601 snails was collected in May 2003 in northeastern Corrientes, a province bounded on the north by Paraguay, on the east by Brazil and on the southeast by Uruguay.
		This province is bounded on the north by Paraguay, on the east by Brazil and on the southeast by Uruguay.
		The first studies on the distribution, prevalence and economic impact of fasciolosis in the province of Corrientes were conducted in the 70's.
	memorias.ioc.fiocruz.br /987/4966.html (0 words)

	Argentina Provinces
		The provinces are further subdivided into departamentos (departments), except for Ciudad de Buenos Aires, which has no internal divisions on this level, and Buenos Aires, which is divided into partidos (parts).
		Corrientes province includes Isla Apipé, an island separated from the rest of the province by a channel of the Alto Paraná River which belongs to Paraguay.
		Its jurisdiction included the old provinces of Tucumán, Buenos Aires, and Paraguay, the governments (gobiernos) of Upper Peru, and the region of Cuyo, which split from the old Captaincy General of Chile.
	www.statoids.com /uar.html (0 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		Héctor Hugo Boleso was a First Instance labor judge in the Province of Corrientes, and, in that capacity, he began amparo proceedings against the authorities of the Province of Corrientes for "altering the intangibility of his remuneration as a judge", a principle enshrined in the National Constitution.
		On August 28, 1992, the defendant, the authorities of the Province of Corrientes, filed an extraordinary federal appeal.
		The ad-hoc High Court of Justice of the Province of Corrientes, through resolution No. 755 of August 4, 1997, decided not to grant the extraordinary appeal that had been filed by the Authorities of the Province of Corrientes and issued a definitive ruling in favor of the petitioner.
	hei.unige.ch /humanrts/cases/1998/argentina39-98.html (0 words)

	Corrientes, Argentina: Corrientes City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ituated in the littoral of the Argentinian northeast region, on the banks of the Paraná River, Corrientes is the capital city of the homonimous province.
		In this area of the province, the climate is mild and the temperature is high with a limited annual variation and a low daily oscillation due to the high humidity, being the average registered temperature 20ºC. There are heavy rains in Fall and Spring.
		The architecture of Corrientes City shows different styles with buildings that integrate the smooth shapes of colonial Baroque style with current dynamic buildings that provide the area with an atmosphere of constant renewal in its streets and parks full of chivatoes, ceiboes, jacarandaes and orange trees.
	www.welcomeargentina.com /corrientes/index_i.html (0 words)

	Memórias on line
		An entomological and serological survey was performed in three localities of the Department of Concepción, Province of Corrientes, Argentina in 1998 and 1999, to identify triatomines species involved in domestic and wild transmission of Chagas disease.
		In Corrientes city it frequently invades houses and a large colony was captured in an urban ecotope (Bar et al.
		An important flood affected Corrientes Province in 1998, as a consequence of the El Niño phenomenon, which made the owners of the dwellings leave them temporarily.
	memorias.ioc.fiocruz.br /971/4290.html (0 words)

	Corrientes - Welcome to Argentina on The Worldwide Traveler
		Between the Paraná and Uruguay rivers, the Argentine Mesopotamia (provinces of Entre Ríos, Corrientes and Misiones) is formed by low hills, where pools and marshlands evidence the ancient courses of these great rivers.
		In some places within the subtropical rain forest, there are fissures which provide such spectacular phenomena as the Iguazú Falls.
		Corrientes, next to the Paraná river, where Graham Greene set his novel "The Honorary Consul"; and Resistencia, capital city of the Province of Chaco and connected to Corrientes through the General Belgrano bridge, boasts more than 200 hundred urban sculptures, and the National Wood Carving Fair held in July.
	www.theworldwidegourmet.com /travel/southamerica/argentina/corrientes.htm (0 words)

	Jesuita stay
		This located to the Northeast of the province of Corrientes and to 80 Kilometers of the City of Posadas(400,000 habitants), the capital of the Province of Misiones(Argentina).
		Corrientes, Argentina).A can be arrived by airplane from Buenos Aires(Argentine Airlines or Aerolineas Argentinas) until the airport of the city of Posadas or by bus until the omnibus terminal of the city of Posadas.
		The trip from Posadas to the Stay is by dirt roads where the sandy yellow territories of Corrientes and the red Earth of Misiones are combined.
	www.geocities.com /laestanciajesuita/ingles.htm (0 words)

	Entre Rios Province
		The province of Entre Ríos is situated in the Mesopotamia region.
		It is bounded by the province of Corrientes on the north; the Republic of Uruguay, on the east; the province of Buenos Aires on the south; and the provinces of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, on the west.
		The most dynamic area of the province borders the Uruguay river, and it is reinforced with works of communication by road, such as the bridges Zárate-Brazo Largo, Puerto Unzué-Fray Bentos, Colón-Paysandú, and Concordia-Salto; the last three communicate with Uruguay.
	www.argentour.com /entreriosing.html (0 words)

	Corrientes, Argentina, Pictures
		The city is situated in a fertile agricultural region with good transportation facilities by river and by rail; exports include livestock, hides, lumber, tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, and citrus fruit.
		The principal industries of Corrientes are sawmilling, flour milling, tanning, shipbuilding, fishing, and food processing.
		The city is the site of the National University of the North-East (1957); the Colonial, Historical, and Fine Arts Museum; the Church of La Santisima Cruz, in which is preserved a 16th-century cross; and the Monastery of San Francisco, built in colonial times.
	www.greatestcities.com /South_America/Argentina/Corrientes_city.html (0 words)

	americas.org - More Protests in Provinces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At least 15 people were injured and eight arrested in Argentina’s Chaco province on May 17 in a clash between about 400 police agents and 300 state workers demanding that the provincial legislature defeat government budget cuts.
		Chaco governor Angel Rozas of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), part of the center-left Alliance, charged that the protests were led by “outside agitators” who came from Corrientes province to stir up trouble as the Chaco legislature was preparing to debate the budget slashing “adjustment” plan.
		The plan was passed with the vote of the 21 Alliance deputies, who have a quorum on their own; they evaded the demonstrators by slipping into the legislature by a side gate, in a single minivan.
	www.americas.org /item_5964 (0 words)

	Informing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On April 26, in an act held at the House of Government of the province of Chaco, in Resistencia, the governor, Dr. Ángel Rozas, and the secretary general of the Consejo Federal de Inversiones, Eng.
		During an act held at the House of Government of La Rioja on August 22, the governor of the province, Dr. Ángel Maza, and the secretary general of the Consejo Federal de Inversiones, Eng.
		The governor of the province of San Juan, Dr. Alfredo Avelín, and the secretary general of the Consejo Federal de Inversiones (CFI), Eng.
	www.cfired.org.ar /ingles/boletin/37/informan.htm (0 words)

	The Militant - January 17, 2000 -- In Brief
		On December 20 state workers in the Argentine province of Corrientes began receiving several months' back wages they are owed.
		Federal police fired on the protest, killing two, after the federal government assumed control of the bankrupt province.
		Corrientes is the latest Argentine province to erupt in protests.
	www.themilitant.com /2000/6402/640231.html (0 words)

	Journalist assaulted in the province of Corrientes : imprimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In a letter to Ricardo Colombi, governor of the province of Corrientes, RSF expressed its concern over the attack on Maria Mercedes Vásquez, announcer for the radio station LT7 Radio Corrientes, in the province of Corrientes (in the country’s north-east).
		The senator invoked Article 81 of the province of Corrientes constitution, which penalises those who question senators’ "image, honour and morality".
		The two journalists had alleged on air that the senator was implicated in an act of corruption.
	www.rsf.org /print.php3?id_article=1027 (0 words)

	CASE No. 1832/ARGENTINA (1996): Complaint against the Government of Argentina presented by WCL
		The complainant organization objects to the fact that the Government of the Province of Corrientes is using the decree in question to demand that persons working for the central provincial administration and decentralized bodies stipulate that they wish to join a trade union organization and authorize the deduction of their trade union dues.
		The Government of the province is demanding that workers provide written authorization stating their desire to join one of the legally established trade unions and have their dues deducted from their wages under the check-off system.
		It was for this reason that it introduced a new wage payment and issued the decree requiring a photocopy of the workers' "updated" declaration of membership of a trade union for the province to continue to deduct their union dues.
	www.oit.org.pe /sindi/english/casos/arg/arg19.html (0 words)

	Cabomba
		Some 7800 km have been surveyed for Cabomba, but it was found to be very abundant in some very specific environments, which are, however, very extended in the province of Corrientes (Fig.
		It has been collected at several locations in the province of Corrientes.
		As the preceding beetle, it is a true swimmer/diver that can live under water for hours on end by holding a permanent air bubble surrounding its abdominal sternites.
	www.usda-sabcl.org /projects/FAN.htm (0 words)

	COMPOSITION OF WATER BUFFALO (Bubalus bubalis) MILK PRODUCED IN CORRIENTES PROVINCE, ARGENTINE
		SUMMARY This paper discusses the physical and chemical characteristicts of water buffalo milk produced in a dairy operation located in the Corrientes Province of Argentina.
		Forty (40) of these were sent to the Santa Rosa Ranch located in the Esquina area of Corrientes Province and 60 were sent to the La Florencia and La Alicia Ranch in the area of San Cristobal Ranch, Santa Fe Province (Mastropolo, Cravero and Zava, 1980; Zava, 1992; Smaldone, 1995).
		It is concentrated mainly in the subtropical humid areas of the northeast including Corrientes, Chaco, Misiones and the north parts of Santa Fe provinces.
	ww2.netnitco.net /users/djligda/argmlk.htm (0 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		Argentine livestock health authorities stated that the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the northeastern province of Corrientes, reported at the beginning of the month was “totally under control”.
		Last February 8, Argentina declared a national sanitary emergency and banned all livestock movements in eight counties of the province of Corrientes which borders with Paraguay and Brazil.
		Since the outbreak was reported Argentine Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries minister Miguel Campos has been in contact with the country’s main clients in an attempt to restrict the ban to beef from the province of Corrientes.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=7239 (0 words)

	Attacks on the Press - 2002
		In September, María Mercedes Vázquez, a reporter for LT 7 Radio Corrientes, released transcripts of phone taps she had obtained revealing that several public officials may have been involved in a conspiracy to oust the governor of the northeastern Corrientes Province.
		On November 23, a legislator from the southern province of Tierra del Fuego threatened and tried to attack a radio journalist after he criticized the lawmaker’s work.
		A group of unknown assailants hurled a homemade bomb at the home of Vázquez, a reporter with LT 7 Radio Corrientes, in the northeastern province of Corrientes.
	www.cpj.org /attacks02/americas02/argentina.html (0 words)

	MBURUCUYÁ NATIONAL PARK - ARGENTINA - National Parks in Argentina - Ripio Incoming Tour Operator Argentina. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The 15,060 ha are in the NW of the province of Corrientes, on the northern shores of the system of marshes of the Iberá system.
		The park is large enough to contain representative samples of the major habitats of that part of the province, all in an exceptionally good state of conservation, providing thus habitat for the varied fauna of the area.
		The park is some 150 km from the city of Corrientes and access from here is along routes 12, 17 and 13 to Mburucuyá.
	www.ripioturismo.com.ar /np-mbur.htm (0 words)

	The Glaucous Macaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Argentina: Firm records are from the north-east of the country in north and central Corrientes province (see Remarks 2), with more circumstantial reports from southern Misiones, eastern Chaco and even possibly Entre Ríos and Santa Fe; there is also a skin in MHNG simply labelled "Frontiere du Paraguay, Rep. Argentina.
		Two further specimens from Corrientes collected on I August 1854 (in USNM) were evidently taken on the río Riachuelo, just south of Corrientes town (see Remarks 5, 6).
		The MNHN skin from Corrientes (there is another, from Buenos Aires) is also labelled "Flamant Corrientes", but it is not clear that a specific locality is thereby intended, and in any case none has been traced on nineteenth century maps of the province (NJC).
	www.bluemacaws.org /glau4.htm (0 words)

	Latin Trade: Natural hype: Publicity push focuses on isolated corner of Argentina - Executive Travel
		Even most residents of Buenos Aires, just nine hours by car from the natural jewel, are oblivious to the existence of the 13,000-square-kilometer natural sanctuary in Corrientes province.
		During the past few years he has acquired 250,000 hectares of the Argentine wetlands, properties he plans to combine with a larger chunk of government-protected land to create what would be the country's largest national park.
		Currently, Corrientes province restricts access to its portion of the wetlands, declared a provincial reserve, to four tourist boats a day.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BEK/is_4_11/ai_100572287 (0 words)

	Province
		This Argentinean province was colonized by the Jesuits at the 11
		It constitutes the northern portion of the Argentinean Mesopotamia and it is bounded by Brazil (North, East and South East), Paraguay (West) and the province of Corrientes (South West).
		The most important places are Posadas, capital city founded in 1870 by decree of the Corrientes governor, and called like this since 1879; Candelaria, Santa Ana, with a significant port dedicated to he shipment of mate; Oberá, Cerro Azul and San Ignacio.
	www.fallsworld.com /misiones.htm (0 words)

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