The Carcarañá River (

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, Arroyo Saladillo or Río Saladillo) is a

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. It begins at the confluence of the Río Tercero and the Saladillo River (the lower course of the Río Cuarto) in the south-east of the province of Córdoba (near Cruz Alta, at ) and flows eastward into the province of Santa Fe, which it crosses. In Santa Fe the river first turns south, then east and finally north-east, passing by the city of

Carcarañá Carcarañá is a city in the , located in the San Lorenzo Department, on the southern banks of the Carcarañá River, west of Rosario on National Route 9, and south of the provincial capital. As of the it has about 22,000 inhabitants. Carcara ...

. It receives the waters of the Cañada de Gómez (near the city of the same name, at ), develops cascades and becomes constrained within

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(''Río Coronda'') or ''Riacho Coronda''), south of

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. The Coronda empties into the

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about below the mouth of the Carcarañá, at . 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 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,

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, Los Molinos,

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, Carcarañá,

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and Gaboto in Santa Fe, traversing one of the richest agricultural districts in the world. The Carcarañá's potential for the generation of

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was taken advantage of since the 19th century and until the 1930s.

History

The mouth of the Carcarañá River was the location of the first European settlement in the

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region and present-day Argentina. In 1527 Sebastian Cabot, a Venetian at the service of

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, established the Sancti Spiritus Fort there. Years later this was also the meeting point of

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, founder of the city of Santa Fe, and the envoy of

Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera (Sevilla, Spain, 1528 – Lima, 17 August 1574) was a Spanish conquistador, early colonial governor over much of what today is northwestern Argentina, and founder of the city of Córdoba. Life and times Cabrera was b ...

, founder of Córdoba.

References

External links

''Santa Fe - Hidrografía''

- Website of Timbúes, Santa Fe, with historical information.
Satellite view of the city of Carcarañá
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carcarana River Rivers of Argentina Rivers of Córdoba Province, Argentina Rivers of Santa Fe Province Tributaries of the Paraná River