Corrientes Province is a province of Argentina with a capital of the same name, Corrientes. It covers about 88,199 square kilometres and had 992,595 residents at the census of 27 October 2010. The name means currents: the original city was called Ciudad de San Juan de las Siete Corrientes, City of Saint John of the Seven Currents, after seven branches of the Paraná River. The province includes Isla Apipé, an island that is separated from the rest of the province by a channel of the Alto Paraná River which belongs to Paraguay. Like most Argentine provinces it is further divided into departments, and below those into municipalities.
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Area (sq km) Admission Year Sources
1. Provinces of Argentina (Statoids)
Primary subdivisions table, Corrientes
Corrientes AR.CN W AR06 CR CTS 992,595 88,199 34,054 Corrientes
Change history, 1814-09-10
1814-09-10: Provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes created.
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is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region
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