Colonia Carlos Pellegrini is a small town and municipality in
San Martín Department in
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 683 inhabitants.
It was established in 1927. It is connected by road to
Mercedes in the southwest.
The climate of the area is subtropical, prone to storms, with an average summer temperature of 30 °C and can fall to −2 °C at night at lowest during the winter. The average rainfall is about 2000 mm per year.
It lies within the
Iberá Provincial Nature Reserve (Reserva Natural Provincial del Iberá, also known as the Iberá Wetlands), a wetland of 1,300,000 hectares on a peninsula that enters the Iberá lagoon 5,500 ha. It has diverse wildlife, including alligators, swamp deer and over 350 species of birds.
References
Populated places in Corrientes Province
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