San Antonio de Padua de la Concordia (usually shortened to
Concordia) is a city in the north-east of the
provinceArgentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city...
of
Entre RíosEntre Ríos is a northeastern province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires , Corrientes and Santa Fe , and Uruguay in the east....
in the
ArgentineArgentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico,...
MesopotamiaLa Mesopotamia, Región Mesopotámica or Litoral argentino is the humid and verdant area of north-east Argentina, comprising the provinces of Misiones, Entre Ríos and Corrientes. The landscape and its characteristics are dominated by two rivers, the Paraná River and the Uruguay River...
. It has about 142,000 inhabitants as of the , and is the head town of the
departmentDepartments form the second level of administrative division in the provinces of Argentina. There are no departments in the city of Buenos Aires, which has so far been divided into neighbourhoods as its administrative divisions, but is to be divided now into communes by a recently passed local act...
of the same name.
Concordia lies on the right-hand (western) shore of the
Uruguay RiverThe Uruguay River is a river in South America. It flows from north to south and makes boundary with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of the Mesopotamia from the other two countries...
, opposite the city of
Salto-Population and location:It has a population of 99,072 . It is the capital of the department of Salto. The city is situated 496 km by road northwest of Montevideo on the Uruguay River, opposite the Argentine city of Concordia, Entre Ríos, to which it is linked by the Salto Grande Bridge built...
,
UruguayUruguay , is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.1 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area. An estimated 88–94% of the population are of mostly European and/or mixed descent.Uruguay's only land border is...
. The two cities are joined by
a road/railway linkThis article is about a geographical feature related to the Uruguay River; for the Chilean waterfall, see Salto Grande, Chile.The Salto Grande Bridge is a road and railroad bridge that crosses the Uruguay River and joins Argentina and Uruguay. It is built on top of the Salto Grande Dam...
that is part of the
Salto Grande DamThe Salto Grande Dam is a dam on the middle course of the Uruguay River, located between the cities of Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina, and Salto, Uruguay. Its purpose is the generation of hydroelectricity...
complex (starting on the Argentine side 18 km north from the center of Concordia).
The city is known as the national capital of
citrusCitrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, originating in tropical and subtropical southeast regions of the world. The most well known examples are the orange, the lemon, the grapefruit, and the lime. The Latin word citrus was borrowed from ancient Greek kedros...
production.
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San Antonio de Padua de la Concordia (usually shortened to
Concordia) is a city in the north-east of the
provinceArgentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city...
of
Entre RíosEntre Ríos is a northeastern province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires , Corrientes and Santa Fe , and Uruguay in the east....
in the
ArgentineArgentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico,...
MesopotamiaLa Mesopotamia, Región Mesopotámica or Litoral argentino is the humid and verdant area of north-east Argentina, comprising the provinces of Misiones, Entre Ríos and Corrientes. The landscape and its characteristics are dominated by two rivers, the Paraná River and the Uruguay River...
. It has about 142,000 inhabitants as of the , and is the head town of the
departmentDepartments form the second level of administrative division in the provinces of Argentina. There are no departments in the city of Buenos Aires, which has so far been divided into neighbourhoods as its administrative divisions, but is to be divided now into communes by a recently passed local act...
of the same name.
Concordia lies on the right-hand (western) shore of the
Uruguay RiverThe Uruguay River is a river in South America. It flows from north to south and makes boundary with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of the Mesopotamia from the other two countries...
, opposite the city of
Salto-Population and location:It has a population of 99,072 . It is the capital of the department of Salto. The city is situated 496 km by road northwest of Montevideo on the Uruguay River, opposite the Argentine city of Concordia, Entre Ríos, to which it is linked by the Salto Grande Bridge built...
,
UruguayUruguay , is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.1 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area. An estimated 88–94% of the population are of mostly European and/or mixed descent.Uruguay's only land border is...
. The two cities are joined by
a road/railway linkThis article is about a geographical feature related to the Uruguay River; for the Chilean waterfall, see Salto Grande, Chile.The Salto Grande Bridge is a road and railroad bridge that crosses the Uruguay River and joins Argentina and Uruguay. It is built on top of the Salto Grande Dam...
that is part of the
Salto Grande DamThe Salto Grande Dam is a dam on the middle course of the Uruguay River, located between the cities of Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina, and Salto, Uruguay. Its purpose is the generation of hydroelectricity...
complex (starting on the Argentine side 18 km north from the center of Concordia).
The city is known as the national capital of
citrusCitrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, originating in tropical and subtropical southeast regions of the world. The most well known examples are the orange, the lemon, the grapefruit, and the lime. The Latin word citrus was borrowed from ancient Greek kedros...
production.
El Palmar National ParkEl Palmar National Park is one of Argentina's national parks, located on the center-west of the province of Entre Ríos, mid-way between the cities of Colón and Concordia...
, an important reserve for Yatay palm trees, lies 60 km south of the city.
The area is serviced by an
airportAn airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
located at .