The Carcarañá basin comprises 2 percent of the territory of Santa Fe and 4 percent of its population lives within it. It has a total length of 240 kilometres (150 mi) and it is navigable only by medium ships. It passes by or near the cities and towns of Inriville, Los Surgentes and Cruz Alta in Córdoba, and Arteaga, San José de la Esquina, Los Nogales, Arequito, Los Molinos, Casilda, Carcarañá, Andino and Gaboto in Santa Fe, traversing one of the richest agricultural districts in the world.
The Carcarañá's potential for the generation of hydroelectricity was taken advantage of since the 19th century and until the 1930s.
carcarañá, river, spanish, arroyo, saladillo, río, saladillo, river, argentina, begins, confluence, río, tercero, saladillo, river, lower, course, río, cuarto, south, east, province, córdoba, near, cruz, alta, flows, eastward, into, province, santa, which, cro. The Carcarana River Spanish Arroyo Saladillo or Rio Saladillo 1 is a river in Argentina It begins at the confluence of the Rio Tercero and the Saladillo River the lower course of the Rio Cuarto in the south east of the province of Cordoba near Cruz Alta at 33 01 S 61 48 W 33 017 S 61 800 W 33 017 61 800 and flows eastward into the province of Santa Fe which it crosses Carcarana river in Argentina In Santa Fe the river first turns south then east and finally north east passing by the city of Carcarana It receives the waters of the Canada de Gomez near the city of the same name at 32 51 S 61 9 W 32 850 S 61 150 W 32 850 61 150 develops cascades and becomes constrained within ravines up to 20 metres 66 ft high It then turns north and empties into the Coronda River Rio Coronda 2 or Riacho Coronda 3 south of Gaboto The Coronda empties into the Parana River about 7 kilometres 4 mi below the mouth of the Carcarana at 32 30 5 S 60 47 45 W 32 50139 S 60 79583 W 32 50139 60 79583 The Carcarana basin comprises 2 percent of the territory of Santa Fe and 4 percent of its population lives within it It has a total length of 240 kilometres 150 mi and it is navigable only by medium ships It passes by or near the cities and towns of Inriville Los Surgentes and Cruz Alta in Cordoba and Arteaga San Jose de la Esquina Los Nogales Arequito Los Molinos Casilda Carcarana Andino and Gaboto in Santa Fe traversing one of the richest agricultural districts in the world The Carcarana s potential for the generation of hydroelectricity was taken advantage of since the 19th century and until the 1930s History editThe mouth of the Carcarana River was the location of the first European settlement in the Rio de la Plata region and present day Argentina In 1527 Sebastian Cabot a Venetian at the service of Spain established the Sancti Spiritus Fort there Years later this was also the meeting point of Juan de Garay founder of the city of Santa Fe and the envoy of Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera founder of Cordoba References edit Rio Carcarana at GEOnet Names Server Rio Coronda at GEOnet Names Server Riacho Coronda at GEOnet Names ServerExternal links editSanta Fe Hidrografia Timbues Turistico Website of Timbues Santa Fe with historical information Satellite view of the city of Carcarana 32 26 32 S 60 48 13 W 32 44222 S 60 80361 W 32 44222 60 80361 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Carcarana River amp oldid 1159331949, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
