Federación is a city in the northeast of the province

Provinces of Argentina

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 of Entre Ríos

Entre Ríos Province

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, Argentina

Argentina

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. It has 13,789 inhabitants as per the . It lies on the provincial and international border with Uruguay

Uruguay

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, by the reservoir of the Salto Grande Dam

Salto Grande Dam

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, on the right-hand (western) banks of the Uruguay River

Uruguay River

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, about 45 km upstream from the city of Concordia

Concordia, Entre Ríos

San Antonio de Padua de la Concordia is a city in the north-east of the province of Entre Ríos in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It has about 142,000 inhabitants as of the , and is the head town of the department of the same name.Concordia lies on the right-hand shore of the Uruguay River, opposite...

 and 265 km from the provincial capital Paraná, near National Route 14.
The original town was a ranch and waypost, named Mandisoví, created in 1777, which grew into a prosperous village but fell then to civil strife. A new town of Mandisoví was founded in a close location by Colonel Manuel Antonio Urdinarrain, who commanded the area, under the orders of the caudillo

Caudillo

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Justo José de Urquiza

Justo José de Urquiza

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. Urdinarrain notified Urquiza about the new town and asked him to name it. Urquiza chose the name Pueblo de la Federación (Town [or People] of the Federation).

In 1974 the citizens of Federación underwent another relocation, as the latest settlement near the Uruguay River was to be flooded by the waters of Salto Grande. The city was demolished and reconstructed in two years. The new Federación was formally inaugurated in 1979 by de facto President

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, military dictator Jorge Rafael Videla

Jorge Rafael Videla

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Today, Federación is part of a major touristic

Tourism in Argentina

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 corridor of Entre Ríos, and is nationally known for its hot springs

Hot Springs

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. The city provides plenty of lodging facilities (hotels, bungalows, camping sites). It hosts an annual National Festival of the Lake and traditional Carnivals.
Besides tourism, the local economy is based on citrus

Citrus

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 crops and the timber

Timber

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 industry (the city has 22 sawmill

Sawmill

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s), besides small-scale beekeeping

Beekeeping

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