See also:

• CORRIENTES
• CORRIENTES (San Juan de Corrientes)

CORRIENTES (See also:

• SAN

San Juan de Corrientes)  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and See also:

• RIVER

river See also:

• PORT

port, and the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the above See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province, in the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of the See also:

• ARGENTINE

Argentine See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic, on the See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• BANK

bank of the See also:

• PARANA

Parana river, 20 M. below the junction of the Upper Parana and See also:

• PARAGUAY

Paraguay, and 832 M . N. of Buenos Aires . The name is derived from the siete See also:

• CORRIENTES
• CORRIENTES (San Juan de Corrientes)

corrientes (seven currents) caused by rocks in the See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed of the river just above the See also:

• TOWN

town . Pop . (1895) 16,129; (19o7 See also:

• LOCAL

local estimate) 30,172, largely See also:

• INDIAN

Indian and of mixed descent . The See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of Corrientes is not equal to its commercial and See also:

• POLITICAL

political importance, the buildings both public and private being generally poor and antiquated . There are four churches, the more conspicuous of which are the Matriz and See also:

• SAN

San Francisco . The See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house, originally a Jesuit See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college, is an antiquated structure surrounding an open See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court (See also:

• PATIO

patio) . There is a See also:

• NATIONAL

national college . The commercial importance of Corrientes results from its unusually favourable situation near the confluence of the Upper Parana and Paraguay, and a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short distance below the mouth of the Bermejo . The See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation of the Upper Parana and Bermejo See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers begins here, and See also:

• FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight for the Upper Parana and See also:

• CHACO

Chaco rivers is transhipped at Corrientes, which practically controls the See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade of the extensive regions tributary to them . Corrientes is the western See also:

• TERMINUS

terminus of the Argentine North-Eastern railway, which crosses the province S.E. to See also:

• MONTE

Monte Caseros, where it connects with the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East Argentine See also:

• LINE

line See also:

• RUNNING

running S. to See also:

• CONCORDIA
• CONCORDIA (mod. Concordia Sagittaria)

Concordia and N. to San Tome .

The See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal exports are See also:

• TIMBER

timber, cereals, See also:

• MATE (a corruption of make, from O. Eng. gemaca, a " comrade ")
• MATE, or PARAGUAY TEA

mate, See also:

• SUGAR

sugar, See also:

• TOBACCO

tobacco, hides, jerked See also:

• BEEF (through O. Fr. boef, mod. boeuf, from Lat. bos, bovis, ox, Gr. f3oiir, which show the ultimate connexion with the Sanskrit go, gaits, ox, and thus with " cow")

beef,jruit and quebracho .