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Argentina: Littoral - Concordia
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oncordia, to borders of the Uruguay river.
San Antonio de Padua de la Concordia is the name of the founded city to borders of the Uruguay River, at the moment the National Capital of the Citricultura.
The region was inhabited by native towns of the parcialidades charrúas and guaraníes, that had arrived at the zone from the north, about 500 years before. Charrúas was divided in three groups: charrúas themselves, guinanes and bohanes.
They lived in which today it is Uruguay and towards century XVII, in most of the province of Entre Ríos.
They were high and robust and the deer hunting of and ñandúes dedicated themselves to, whereas charrúas of the coast practiced the fishing in their long canoes.
They used the boleadoras (of 2 and 3 balls) and with the arrival of the horse used lances of several meters of length.
Their houses were very peculiar since they consisted of 4 placed stakes of way that they ahead formed an open square and without ceiling; the walls were mats of interlaced rushes, hung of crosspieces that maintained stakes.
As of century XVII they constructed to his huts with bent branches and covers with leathers of horse or cow. Its bed was a leather in the ground.
The antecedents of Concordia go back to century XVIII, when the territory included/understood from the Mocoretá stream to the place on which the city was based, was crossed by the Teacher of Field of Francisco García Piedrabuena to the front of a military expedition that had started off from Yapeyú and arrived to the corners of Gualeguaychú.
In 1718 they lowered other conquerors of Yapeyú, those that founded the town of Mandisoví, to three leguas of the Uruguay river.
According to Antonio P. Castro, when studying the maps published by Father Furlong Cardiff, locate in them whereabouts denominated "Ytú", affirming that the same one existed, at least, from 1722, and possibly before.
The population of El Salto was only a place destined to save the stumbling block of Salto Grande and Chico, and its definitive establishment later, it imposed the necessity to organize a position with permanent character, and is when the jesuitas erect oratorio, that they put under the invocation of San Antonio de Padua, and a small trimming of Indian missionaries to protect the traffic that was made that way.
It is maintained that that must have been the initiation of the present Concordia.
Later the jesuitas were expelled and that the region was forgotten. The attention returns to be centered in these earth when General Artigas initiates the Eastern exodus, between years 1811 and 1812. Between different versions it is indicated to the 29 of November of 1831 like its date of foundation, by means of a decree of the reunited General Assembly in Paraná. Other historians indicate like date of foundation the 6 of February of 1832. The construction of the railway line, between Concordia and Federal was the result of length and winding process, that initiated 1909, was materialized in 1930, and produced changes of economic, social and demographic order, in its zone of influence, like the sprouting of several locality.  |
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