The Gualeguay River (Spanish Río Gualeguay) is one of the major rivers of the Mesopotamic

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

of Entre Ríos,

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

. Its source is in the north of the province, in the region between the cities of Federación and

San José de Feliciano San José de Feliciano is a city in the north of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina, near the border with Corrientes. It has 11,137 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the Feliciano Department. The city was officially founded in ...

, and

meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex bank ...

s in a general south-southwestward direction across the center of the province for about , receiving a large number of

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...

streams. It passes by the cities of

Villaguay Villaguay is a city in the province of Entre Ríos in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It has about 49,000 inhabitants as of thcensus 2010and is the head town of the department of the same name. The city lies near the geographic center of the province ...

Rosario del Tala Rosario del Tala is a city in the center-south of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It has 12,801 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the Tala Department. It lies on the western banks of the Gualeguay River, 179 km east-so ...

, and Gualeguay, and finally empties into the Río Paraná Ibicuy, a

distributary A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. Distributaries are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributar ...

of the

Paraná River The Paraná River ( es, Río Paraná, links=no , pt, Rio Paraná, gn, Ysyry Parana) is a river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina for some ."Parana River". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Br ...

in the

Paraná Delta The Paraná Delta ( es, Delta del Paraná) is the delta of the Paraná River in Argentina and it consists of several islands known as the Islas del Paraná. The Paraná flows north–south and becomes an alluvial basin (a flood plain) between th ...

. The Gualeguay's

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...

covers an area of (about one third of the total area of the province), along a depressed area between the systems of low hills of the west (Cuchilla de Montiel) and east (Cuchilla Grande) of Entre Ríos. Measurements taken in 1964–1968 place its average discharge at .

References

* Turismo Entre Ríos
Geografía, relieve y límites de Entre Ríos
* Secretaría de Minería de la Nación
Provincia de Entre Ríos - Recursos hídricos
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CUENCAS HIDRICAS SUPERFICIALES DE LA REPUBLICA ARGENTINA
. {{coord, 33, 18, 26, S, 59, 38, 24, W, type:river_region:AR_dim:10km_source:GNS, display=title Rivers of Argentina Rivers of Entre Ríos Province Tributaries of the Paraná River

See also

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