San Roque Department Departamento San Roque | |
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 location of San Roque Department in Corrientes Province | |
| Coordinates: 28°34′S58°43′W / 28.567°S 58.717°W | |
| Country | Argentina |
| Seat | San Roque |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,243 km2 (866 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 17,951 |
| • Density | 8.0/km2 (21/sq mi) |
| Postal Code | W3448 |
| Area Code | 03777 |
| Website | www |
San Roque Department is a department of Corrientes Province in Argentina.
Departments form the second level of administrative division, and are subdivided in municipalities. They are extended in all of Argentina except for the Province of Buenos Aires and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the national capital, each of which has different administrative arrangements.
Corrientes ; officially the Corrientes Province is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by : Paraguay, the province of Misiones, Brazil, Uruguay, and the provinces of Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Chaco.
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, the second largest in South America after Brazil, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation. The sovereign state is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
The provincial subdivision has a population of about 17,951 inhabitants in an area of 2,243 km2 (866 sq mi), its capital city is San Roque.
San Roque is a city in Corrientes Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the San Roque Department.
