Concordia (Between Ríos)

Situation

It is to 430 km in the north of Buenos Aires, vis-a-vis the town of Salto, in Uruguay, i.e. with a few kilometers in the south of the falls called Salto Grande ( Ytú or Itú , in language Guaraní E) which marked the limit between the navigable zone of Río Uruguay since its mouth in the Río of Plata, this until the construction of the stopping of Salto Grande. Its coordinates are. The city is built at an altitude of 22 meters to the top of the sea level.

The downtown area is to 18 km in the south of the dam which forms imposing it lake of reserve. An important railway branch crosses the city. One second railway and a road connects it with the town of Salto.

Very close, the airport of Concordia ( Comodoro Stones , code AITA: COC) has as coordinates.

History

The area was inhabited by people belonging to the tribes Charrúa S (mainly the Yaros) and by Guaraní S which arrived there, at the beginning of the XVIe century. The latter had reached the zone since north, while descending the rivers.

According to Antonio P. Castro, by studying the old charts published by the Father Furlong Cardiff, there was in these places an inhabited place called " Ytú" who existed at least since 1722, and can be earlier. The first Spanish establishment was undoubtedly the military installation of San Antonio del Salto Chico, built on Eastern bank of the river Uruguay in February 1757 on the basis of camping of troops ordered by gift Jose Joaquín de Viana, governor of Montevideo. One had also built ways since this area up to the first navigable point of low Uruguay, and this on order of governor Pedro de Cevallos, in order to be used as fulcrum for the army which operated in the Eastern Missions Jesuits . This installation was abandoned when the Guerre Guaraníe in 1763 finished.

In 1768, the governor of the Río of Plata, Francisco de Bucarelli, organized a military forwarding to expel the Jesuits of their Misiones . With this intention it went up Río Uruguay with 1500 soldiers and made restore the fort raised in 1757 by Pedro de Cevallos in Salto Chico in order to be used as a basis for the operations. This fort was used as deposit of provisioning and prison for the unhappy Jesuits. A great rising the following year destroyed the establishment of Yapeyú, located more at north beyond the falls. In 1769, Bucarelli dealt with the foundation of San Antonio de Salto Chico on the site of current Concordia, which became a crossroads road-river until 1821.

In 1768 one establishes a landing stage on Western bank of Uruguay.

In 1776, Juan de San Martín founded Estancias of Concepción de Mandisoví (in the surroundings of the current city of Federación ) and of Jesús del Yeruá (in the south of Concordia), restoring the port of San Antonio del Salto Chico. In this port the goods arrived by terrestrial way since Yapeyú were embarked.

Religion

The cathedral San Antonio de Padua is the seat of the Diocèse of Concordia, Suffragant of the Archidiocèse of Paraná.

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