Taragui

Taragüí is the Guaraní name of Corrientes, on a bend of the Paraná River below its confluence with the Paraguay. Seven rocky points along the shore gave the Spanish settlement its name of the Seven Currents. Juan Torres de Vera y Aragón founded the city in 1588, bringing settlers from Asunción into a region inhabited by Guaraní and other Indigenous peoples. The river linked Corrientes to Paraguay and the settlements of the lower Paraná.

The city grew as a port and a centre of cattle country. Its position on the river made it a stopping place on the route between Asunción and Buenos Aires, while Guaraní speech remained deeply rooted among its people. In the early nineteenth century the conflicts that followed the May Revolution affected Corrientes and the Guaraní towns along the Uruguay. The old river port remained a meeting place of inland routes, waterways and the cultures of the northeastern plains.