Yapeyu
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| location | 29 ° 28 ′ S , 56 ° 49 ′ W | ||
| Height above d. M .: | 54 m | ||
| Population (2001): | 2124 | ||
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| Province : |
 Corrientes
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| Department : | San Martín | ||
| Mayor: | Gustavo Adán Gaya | ||
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| Postal code : | W3231 | ||
| Telephone code: | 03772 | ||
Yapeyú is a city in the province of Corrientes in Argentina in the department of San Martín . It has about 2,000 inhabitants (as of 2001).
history
The city was founded on December 4th 1626 by the Jesuit Pedro Romero, who gave the settlement the name Villa de Nuestra Señora de los Santos Reyes Magos y Yapeyú . The term Yapeyú comes from the Guaraní language , which means "ripe fruit". Yapayú was also once the name of the river now known as Guaviraví .
In 1778 the independence fighter José de San Martín was born there. The house where he lived with his wife Gregoria Matorras is still preserved.
Yapeyú was one of the thirty settlements destroyed by the Portuguese army in 1817, but it was rebuilt.
Web links
Commons : Yapeyú - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Information about Yapeyú ( Memento of August 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- City data ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )