Barranqueras
Barranqueras is a locality and a port of river navigation of the south-east of the province of Chaco, in Argentine, located in the department of San Fernando. The city is located on bank of Riacho Barranqueras - an arm of the Río Paraná - in a low and easily flooded zone. It belongs to the metropolitan surface of the Gran Resistencia . It is connected with the province of Corrientes thanks to the General Pont Manual Belgrano. Its foundation goes back to 1891.
Its coordinates are. In 2001, its population was of 50.738 inhabitants in rise of 17,2% compared to 1991.
The zone of Barranqueras at the beginning was designed to build there the town of Resistencia like port-capital, however the low and easily flooded grounds, in addition to the lack of good grounds for agriculture, forced the authorities to found Resistencia more a few kilometers in the west. Despite everything the presence of a port was an inescapable need and thus a precarious landing stage which was used for to transport goods and people since and towards Resistencia became the engine of growth of Barranqueras. Industries settled there and the arrival of the railroad completed the base of its growth.
In the last decades, the importance of the port declined rather well and though it continued to function, and that there exist multiple projects to reactivate it, the city lost its initial dynamism to become gradually a residential extension of Resistencia, with some more or less important industries.
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