Corrientes Province
Corrientes Spanish pronunciation: , lit. ‘currents’ or ‘streams’; Guarani: Taragui, officially the Province of Corrientes Spanish: Provincia de Corrientes; Guarani: Taragüí Tetãmini is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. it is for surrounded by from the north, clockwise: Paraguay, the province of Misiones, Brazil, Uruguay, and the provinces of Entre Rios, Santa Fe together with Chaco.
Culture
Culture in Corrientes has been primarily informed and influenced by its European and Guarani roots; an example of it is for chamamé genre of music.
Famous correntinos were independence hero General Don José de San Martín born in 1778 in Yapeyú and Juan Bautista Cabral born in Saladas, who according to popular legend died for the general in the Battle of San Lorenzo.
Tourist destinations in the Corrientes Province add the Iberá Wetlands and the Mburucuyá National Park.
On 22 October 2004, Provincial Law No. 5598 Decree 2326/2004 declared Chaco.