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area, 32,580 sq. m. Nearly one-third of the province is covered by swamps and lagoons, or is so little above their level as to be practically unfit for permanent See also:

settlement unless drained. The Ibera See also:

LAGOON (Fr. lagune, Lat. lacuna, a pool)

lagoon (c. 85oo sq. m., according to the Argentine See also:

YEAR

Year See also:

BOOK

Book for 1905-1906) includes a large part of the central and north-eastern departments, and the Maloya lagoon covers a large part of the north-western departments. Several streams flowing into the See also:

PARANA

Parana and See also:

URUGUAY (officially the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, and long locally called the Banda Oriental, meaning the land on the eastern side of the river Uruguay, from which the country takes its name)

Uruguay have their See also:

SOURCES

sources in these lagoons, the Ibera sending its See also:

WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters in both directions. The See also:

SOUTHERN

southern districts of the province, however, are high and See also:

ROLLING

rolling, similar to the neighbouring departments of Entre Rios, and are admirably adapted to grazing and See also:

agriculture. The north-eastern corner is also high, but it is broken by ranges of hills and is heavily forested, like the adjacent territory of Misiones. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate on the higher plains is sub-tropical, but in the See also:

NORTHERN

northern swamps it is essentially tropical. Corrientes is the hottest province of See also:

ARGENTINA

Argentina, notwithstanding its large area of See also:

WATER

water and See also:

FOREST

forest. The exports include See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and horses, jerked See also:

BEEF (through O. Fr. boef, mod. boeuf, from Lat. bos, bovis, ox, Gr. f3oiir, which show the ultimate connexion with the Sanskrit go, gaits, ox, and thus with " cow")

beef, hides, See also:

TIMBER

timber and firewood, cereals and See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit.

The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal towns are Corrientes, the See also:

capital; See also:

GOYA

Goya, a flourishing agricultural See also:

TOWN

town (1906 estimate, 7000) on a See also:

side channel of the Parana, 150 M. S. of Corrientes, the seat of a See also:

MODERN

modern normal school and the See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market-town of a prosperous See also:

DISTRICT

district; Bella Vista (pop. Igoe, estimate, 3000), prettily situated on the Parana, 8o m. S. of Corrientes, the commercial centre of a large district; Esquina (pop. 1906 estimate, 3000) on the Parana at the mouth of the Corrientes See also:

RIVER

river, 86 m. S. of Goya, which exports timber and firewood from the neighbouring forest of Payubre; See also:

MONTE

Monte Caseros (pop. 1906 estimate, 4000) on the Uruguay river, from which cattle are shipped to Brazil, the eastern See also:

TERMINUS

terminus of the Argentine North-Eastern railway (which crosses the province in a N.W. direction to Corrientes), and a station on the See also:

East Argentine railway (which runs northward to Paso de Los Libres, opposite See also:

URUGUAYANA

Uruguayana, Brazil and to See also:

San Tome, and southward to a junction with the Entre Rios See also:

RAILWAYS

railways). A considerable district on the upper Uruguay was once occupied by prosperous Jesuit See also:

MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

missions, all of which See also:

fell into decay and ruins after the See also:

EXPULSION (Lat. expulsio, from expellere)

expulsion of that See also:

order from the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish possessions in 1767. The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of the province is composed very largely of See also:

INDIAN

Indian and mixed races, and Guarani is still the See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language of the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

PEOPLE

people.

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