Corrientes

All this may seem to suggest that Corrientes is a somewhat forbidding province, especially as much of its territory is marshy.

After leaving Chajari, the Province of Corrientes is entered and the landscape immediately changes.

The gauchos of Corrientes, trained for generations in civil wars, quickly assembled to oppose the Paraguayans.

Corrientes thus became the market-centre of the upper river and replaced Asunción in the trade.