Mesopotamia (Argentina)

Location of the Argentine Mesopotamia

The Argentine landscape of Mesopotamia lies between the two rivers Río Paraná and Río Uruguay .

Mesopotamia is made up of three provinces, these are (from south to north):

• Entre Ríos , flat land with grass and palm forests
• Corrientes , flat country, mostly swampy
• Misiones , hilly and wooded

climate

Climatically, the area can be assigned to the subtropics , without a pronounced rainy season. Summer temperatures are between 30 and 40 ° C, winter temperatures between 15 and 25 ° C.

population

Since there was no bridge over the Río Paraná, the area was isolated from the rest of Argentina for a long time, so it was settled quite late. Most of the immigrants came from Russia, Germany, Poland and Asia.

geography

The biggest places are

• Corrientes
• Posadas
• Paraná

• Concordia
• Gualeguaychú

Others

The Uruguayan-Argentinian writer Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937) has set a literary monument to the region in his work.

The area is also interesting for aquarists because of its beautiful ornamental fish.