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Corrientes

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Cor·ri·en·tes  (kôr-nts)
A city of northeast Argentina on the Paraná River and the Paraguay border. It was founded in 1588. Population: 314,000.
Corrientes (Spanish) [koˈrrjentes]
n
(Placename) a port in NE Argentina, on the Paraná River. Pop.: 325 628 (1999 est.)
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Even when he swam thousands of miles out of the Pacific and got to a place called Cape Corrientes (that was when he was coming back from Gough's Island), he found a few hundred mangy seals on a rock and they told him that men came there too.
The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
Having finished our dinner, of hail-stricken meat, we crossed the Sierra Tapalguen; a low range of hills, a few hundred feet in height, which commences at Cape Corrientes.
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