Corrientes Province
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Corrientes is a province in northeast Argentina. Its capital is Corrientes. The province has a population of 930,991 (2001), and has an area of 88,199 km². It is surrounded by (from the North, clockwise): Paraguay, the province Misiones, Brazil, and the provinces of Entre Rios, Santa Fé and Chaco.
Independence hero José de San Martín was born 1778 in Yapeyú.
Corrientes boasts a strong culture: chamamé music and dance, guaraní traditions, and the only place in Argentina, other than Buenos Aires, to have a significant black culture, which in turn did much to shape the carnival celebrations, the most colorful in all of Argentina.
Since the 1980s, chamamé has become a mainstay of Argentine music, cross-breeding with rock, candombe, Brazilian rhythms from across the border, chacarera from Santiago del Estero and most notably cumbia, to produce the tropical genre, much in vogue in all of the country. Even the Correntino term for "dance party", bailanta, has spread to all of Argentina.
The province is divided into 25 departments (departamentos):
Department (Capital)
- Bella Vista (Bella Vista)
- Berón de Astrada (Berón de Astrada)
- Capital (Corrientes)
- Concepción (Concepción)
- Curuzú Cuatía (Curuzú Cuatía)
- Empedrado (Empedrado)
- Esquina (Esquina)
- General Alvear (Alvear)
- General Paz (Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Caá Catí)
- Goya (Goya)
- Itatí (Itatí)
- Ituzaingó (Ituzaingó)
- Lavalle (Lavalle)
- Mburucuyá (Mburucuyá)
- Mercedes (Mercedes)
- Monte Caseros (Monte Caseros)
- Paso de los Libres (Paso de los Libres)
- Saladas (Saladas)
- San Cosme (San Cosme)
- San Luis del Palmar (San Luis del Palmar)
- San Martín (La Cruz)
- San Miguel (San Miguel)
- San Roque (San Roque)
- Santo Tomé (Santo Tomé)
- Sauce (Sauce)
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| Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires Province | Catamarca | Chaco | Chubut | Córdoba | Corrientes | Entre Ríos | Formosa | Jujuy | La Pampa | La Rioja | Mendoza | Misiones | Neuquen | Río Negro | Salta | San Juan | San Luis | Santa Cruz | Santa Fe | Santiago del Estero | Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Islands | Tucumán | |
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