Corrientes Province
Corrientes
Taragui (Guarani) | |
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| Province of Corrientes Provincia de Corrientes (Spanish) Taragui Tetãmini (Guarani) | |
The Iberá Wetlands | |
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Coat of arms | |
| Nicknames: Taragüí/Taragui La Novia del Paraná (The Bride of Paraná) Corazón del Nordeste (Heart of the Northeast) | |
| Motto(s): Patria, libertad y constitucion (Guarani: Tetã, Sãso ha Rekovoñaguasu) (Homeland, freedom and constitution) | |
Location of Corrientes within Argentina | |
| Coordinates: 28°40′S 57°38′W / 28.66°S 57.63°W | |
| Country | Argentina |
| Capital | Corrientes |
| Departments | 25 |
| Municipalities | 67 |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Juan Pablo Valdés |
| • Vice Governor | Pedro Braillard Poccard (PPC) |
| • Legislature | Senate (15) Chamber of Deputies of Corrientes (30) |
| • Deputies | 7 |
| • National Senators | Carlos Espínola (FDT) Mercedes Valenzuela (JXC) Eduardo Vischi (JXC) |
| Area | |
• Total | 88,199 km2 (34,054 sq mi) |
| Population (2022 census) | |
• Total | 1,197,553 |
| • Rank | 10th |
| • Density | 13.578/km2 (35.166/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Correntine correntino (Spanish) taraguigua (Guarani) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | US$ 13.0 billion |
| • Per capita | US$ 11,500 |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (ART) |
| ISO 3166 code | AR-W |
| Languages | Spanish (official) Guarani (co-official) |
| HDI (2021) | 0.839 very high (18th) |
| Website | www |
Corrientes (Spanish pronunciation: [koˈrjentes], lit. ‘currents’ or ‘streams’; Guarani: Taragui), officially the Province of Corrientes (Spanish: Provincia de Corrientes; Guarani: Taragui Tetãmini) is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by (from the north, clockwise): Paraguay, Misiones, Brazil, Uruguay, and the provinces of Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Chaco. With an area of 88,199 km², it ranks sixteenth in territorial size among Argentina’s provinces.
From the historical perspective of the construction of the Argentine State, it is one of the oldest provinces in Argentine territory and one of the fourteen founding provinces of the Argentine Confederation.
In 2004, the Guaraní language was declared an “alternative official language,” reflecting the bilingual character that distinguishes the province.