Puerto Rico is the capital city of Libertador General San Martín, in the
Misiones Province
Misiones (, ''Missions'') is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by Paraguay to the northwest, Brazil to the north, east and south, and Corrientes ...
of
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 ...
.
It is located along the
Paraná River.
It limits to the south with the city of
, at east and north with the
Garuhapé
Garuhapé is a village and municipality in Misiones Province in north-eastern Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina c ...
and to the east west with
Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...
.
Strategically located along Route 12, it is half way between the
Iguazu Falls
Iguazú Falls or Iguaçu Falls ( gn, Chororõ Yguasu , es, Cataratas del Iguazú, links=no ; pt, Cataratas do Iguaçu ) are waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border of the Argentine province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Paraná ...
and the province's capital
Posadas.
With almost 12.500 hectares, the city has a population of around 20.000 people, mainly composed of European immigrants.
Regional languages
Riograndenser Hunsrückisch
Hunsrik (natively and Portuguese ''Hunsrik'' or ''Hunsrückisch''), also called ''Riograndenser Hunsrückisch'' or ''Katharinensisch'', is a Moselle Franconian language derived primarily from the Hunsrückisch dialect of West Central German. ...
is a German dialect with an almost two centuries history originated in the neighboring state of
Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
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, and spoken as a
minority language
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in this region of Misiones since its pioneer days.
References
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Populated places in Misiones Province
Populated places established in 1919
German-Argentine culture