Reconquista is a city in the north of the , from
the provincial capitalSanta Fe is the capital city of province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It sits in northeastern Argentina, near the junction of the Paraná and Salado rivers. It lies opposite the city of Paraná, to which it is linked by the Hernandarias Subfluvial Tunnel. The city is also connected by canal with the...
. It is the head town of the
General Obligado DepartmentThe General Obligado Department is an administrative subdivision of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the northeast of the province. It has about 166,000 inhabitants as per the...
, and it has 66,187 inhabitants according to the .
The city lies on a branch of the
Paraná RiverThis article is about the second-longest river in South America: For the shorter river in Goiás, central Brazil, see Paranã RiverThe Paraná River is a river in south central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina over a course of some 2,570 kilometers...
opposite the city of
Goya, CorrientesGoya is a city in the south-west of the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It has about 87,000 inhabitants as of the ....
. As of 2005, the construction of a road link between the two cities is under study; at present there is no way to cross the multiple minor branches, streams and wetlands except by boat.
The
climateClimate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time...
of the region is wet subtropical (average in winter, in summer), with a mean annual rainfall of .
Reconquista was founded on 27 April 1872 as a military fort, established by Colonel Manuel Obligado, in lands formerly belonging to the
JesuitThe Society of Jesus is a Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called Jesuits.Jesuits are the largest male religious order in the Catholic Church, with 18,815 members—13,305 priests, 2,295 scholastic students, 1,758 brothers and 827 novices—as of January 2008, although the...
missionA Christian mission has been widely defined, since the Lausanne Congress of 1974, as that which is designed "to form a viable indigenous church-planting and world changing movement." This definition is motivated by a theologically imperative theme of the Bible to make God known, as outlined in the...
Reducción San Jerónimo del Rey.
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Reconquista is a city in the north of the , from
the provincial capitalSanta Fe is the capital city of province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It sits in northeastern Argentina, near the junction of the Paraná and Salado rivers. It lies opposite the city of Paraná, to which it is linked by the Hernandarias Subfluvial Tunnel. The city is also connected by canal with the...
. It is the head town of the
General Obligado DepartmentThe General Obligado Department is an administrative subdivision of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the northeast of the province. It has about 166,000 inhabitants as per the...
, and it has 66,187 inhabitants according to the .
The city lies on a branch of the
Paraná RiverThis article is about the second-longest river in South America: For the shorter river in Goiás, central Brazil, see Paranã RiverThe Paraná River is a river in south central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina over a course of some 2,570 kilometers...
opposite the city of
Goya, CorrientesGoya is a city in the south-west of the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It has about 87,000 inhabitants as of the ....
. As of 2005, the construction of a road link between the two cities is under study; at present there is no way to cross the multiple minor branches, streams and wetlands except by boat.
The
climateClimate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time...
of the region is wet subtropical (average in winter, in summer), with a mean annual rainfall of .
Reconquista was founded on 27 April 1872 as a military fort, established by Colonel Manuel Obligado, in lands formerly belonging to the
JesuitThe Society of Jesus is a Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called Jesuits.Jesuits are the largest male religious order in the Catholic Church, with 18,815 members—13,305 priests, 2,295 scholastic students, 1,758 brothers and 827 novices—as of January 2008, although the...
missionA Christian mission has been widely defined, since the Lausanne Congress of 1974, as that which is designed "to form a viable indigenous church-planting and world changing movement." This definition is motivated by a theologically imperative theme of the Bible to make God known, as outlined in the...
Reducción San Jerónimo del Rey. It was declared a city in 1921.
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