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Argentina: Littoral - Colón
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olón, and its tourist destiny.
To speak of the history of towns and entrerrianas cities, involves without doubts the figure questioned by many students, of the Right Gral. Jose de Urquiza, born the 18 of October of 1801 in Talar del Arroyo Largo (today, Urquiza), to the north of Conception of Uruguay.
The 21 of November of 1851, protocolizó the alliance between Entre Ríos, Corrientes, Brazil and Uruguay. Beginning the Campaign of the Great Army, that culminated in the Mount battle Caseros the 3 of February of 1852, the most remembered of the many military triumphs of Urquiza.
This triumph cleared the way of the Caudillo, since with him, had overcome Roses. Not resentment had him, not it confiscated properties of won, and when it knew that its economic situation in exile was hard, sent some money to him, with greatness, as it corresponds to a caudillo.
Urquiza was dedicated, as of that moment, to the task of obtaining the national organization and the 31 of May of 1852, most of the provincial governors signed the Agreement of San Nicolás, by who Urquiza received the position of Provisional Director of the Argentina Confederation and summoned a General Congress Constituyente that would meet in Santa Fe in August. The representatives of the Argentine provinces were in the Congress of Santa Fe and they wrote up the Federal Constitution of 1853. Most of the provinces it accepted it and in 1854 Urquiza it began its presidential period of six years like first constitutional president of the Argentine Republic, with its capital in Parana, Entre Ríos.
Shortly after the province of Buenos Aires retired of the Confederation, before the suspicion that Urquiza could be another Roses and in addition because most of the Buenosaireans they thought that the reorganization had to be made under the direction of Buenos Aires, as well as by permanent desire to maintain the benefits of the harbor taxes for its own province.
After leaving the presidency in 1860, Urquiza was General of the army and continued like Governor of Entre Ríos.
In the 1861 war it broke the relations between Buenos Aires and the provinces again, finishing in Batalla de Pavón.
From 1865 to 1868 Urquiza she was Commander of the Argentine army in the war against Paraguay.
The city of Colón was founded by the same Urquiza, the 12 of April of 1863. Colón had noticeable his tourist destiny from that day, when the founder expressed in his proclamation that located to the villa "in the most beautiful enclosure of the beautiful shores of Uruguay".
She is united to the city of Paysandú (Uruguay) by an international bridge. By its condition of natural harbor, it favored the fluvial commerce of regional products, mainly originating of the Colony of San José, urban nucleus formed years before by the same Urquiza with French immigrants Swiss. The city, today conserves the tranquillity of a small, ideal town for the best rest of the tourist.
With smooth undulations of the land and streets totally hoisted, the city is a beautiful natural balcony to the side of the majestic Uruguay river.  |
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