Bonpland is a small town and municipality in Paso de los Libres Department,

Corrientes Province Corrientes (, ‘currents’ or ‘streams’; gn, Taragui), officially the Province of Corrientes ( es, Provincia de Corrientes; gn, Taragüí Tetãmini) is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by (fr ...

, Argentina. According to the 2001 population census conducted by

INDEC The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses ( es, link=no, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos; INDEC) is an Argentine decentralized public body that operates within the Ministry of Economy, which exercises the direction of all of ...

its population was 1063 inhabitants. It lies on National Route 14, about 11 kilometres from the right bank of the

Uruguay River The Uruguay River ( es, Río Uruguay, ; pt, Rio Uruguai, ) is a major river in South America. It flows from north to south and forms parts of the boundaries of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of La M ...

. It was originally called Santa Ana, but on May 10, 1858, was renamed in honor of the French naturalist

Aimé Bonpland Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (; 22 August 1773 – 11 May 1858) was a French explorer and botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804. He co-authored volumes of the scientific results of their ex ...

whose body rests in a mausoleum in the Cemetery of the Holy Cross of

Paso de los Libres Paso de los Libres is a city in the east of the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It had about 44,000 inhabitants at the , and is the head town of the department of the same name. The city lies on the right-hand (western) shor ...

. Its main economic activity is livestock and forestry, and rice farming. The town currently has an emergency hospital, an OFIN registrar, a secondary school, a primary school and one police station.

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Populated places in Corrientes Province {{Corrientes-geo-stub