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RIO CUARTO

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 353 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RIO CUARTO , a See also:

town of See also:Argentina in the See also:province of See also:Cordoba, 119 M. S. of the See also:city of that name, and about 500 M. N.W. of Buenos Aires. Pop. (1904, estimate) 12,000. It stands 1440 ft. above See also:sea-level and about See also:half-way across the See also:great See also:Argentine See also:pampas, on the See also:banks of a See also:river of the same name which finds an outlet through the Carcaranal into the See also:Parana near See also:Rosario. The town is built on the open See also:plain and is surrounded with attractive suburbs. It is the commercial centre of a large See also:district and has a large and lucrative See also:trade. Its See also:geographical position gives it great strategical importance, and the See also:government maintains here a large See also:arsenal and a See also:garrison of the See also:regular See also:army. The surrounding See also:country belongs to the partially arid See also:pampa region and is devoted to stockraising—See also:cattle, horses, See also:sheep and goats. See also:Irrigation is employed in its immediate vicinity. Previous to 1892 this region was overrun by the Ranqueles, a warlike tribe of See also:Indians, hut the vigorous See also:reprisals of See also:General Ivanovski in that See also:year, supplemented by the tactful intervention of the Franciscan missionaries, who have a See also:convent in this town, put an end to these hostile forays and gave full opportunity for the See also:industrial development of the country.

There are some manufacturing See also:

industries in the town. The See also:National Andine railway passes through Rio Cuarto, and See also:branch lines connect with the Buenos Aires and Pacific See also:line—all of which give railway communication with Buenos Aires, Rosario, See also:Tucuman,. Cordoba, See also:San Luis and See also:Mendoza.

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