Concordia (Argentina)

Flag of the city of Concordia.

Peatonal Between Rios Concordia.

Night view of the coast of Concordia (2015).

View of the central area of Concordia (2011).

View of Concordia from the Uruguay River (2006).

Concordia, formally called San Antonio de Padua de la Concordia, is a city and municipality whose ejido is distributed among the Suburbios, Yuquerí and Ejido districts of the Concordia department (of which it is the head) in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. The municipality includes the town of the same name, the town of Osvaldo Magnasco and a rural area. The city of Concordia is located on the right hydrographic bank of the Uruguay River and has joined and currently includes the previous towns of Villa Zorraquín, Villa Adela, Benito Legerén and Las Tejas. In addition, Concordia is located opposite the Uruguayan city of Salto, from which it is separated by the Uruguay River.

Due to its population, it ranks second among the cities of the province of Entre Ríos, being only surpassed by Paraná, the provincial capital. It is also the one with the largest population in the Uruguay River basin. The national route No. 14 is the main communication route of Concordia with the rest of Argentina and with neighboring countries.

Location

A branch of the General Urquiza Railroad crosses the city. By the crest of the Salto Grande dam, located within its municipal commons, a railway and a road connect it with the neighboring Uruguayan city of Salto.

The municipal airport of Concordia, called Comodoro Pierrestegui Airport, is located in the north of the city, at 31°18′S 58°00′W / -31.300, -58.000 .

Concordia is located approximately 430 km north of the City of Buenos Aires, in front of the city of Salto, from which it is separated by the Uruguay River, which has between 500 and 700 m of normal width in the area. This river in Concordia is crossed by the so-called Salto Chico, formed by several rocky chains, in addition to other rocky groups such as the Nebel beach reefs that reach the middle of the river and the rocks of Hervidero and Corralito downstream from the city. A few kilometers to the north of the Salto Grande hydroelectric dam was the Salto Grande (Ytuí or Ituí in the Guaraní language), which interrupted the navigation of the Uruguay River, up to the construction of the Salto Grande dam. The city center is about 18 km (by road) south of the dam and the reservoir it forms.

Bus terminal.

Local symbols

Shield

The municipal shield was established by municipal ordinance no. 14993, sanctioned on August 9, 1961 and promulgated on August 16.

It is a quartered shield with four cantons on the whole and border.

• In the right canton there is an Argentine flag rotated 90°, in the white strip there is a torch held by one hand.
• In the sinister canton there are three rows of stylized orange trees, located oblique on a blue field.
• A horn of abundance on a blue field is observed in the lower canton.
• In the lower sinister canton are the colors of the 90° rotated Entre Ríos shield (green and red) and with a 5-point white star in the middle that contains a symbol.
• Above all, that is, in the middle of the shield is a version of the primitive shield of the Villa de la Concordia, which contains a priest (San Antonio de Padua), a river, a palm tree and a figurative sun.
• On the embroidery, on white glaze and covering more than two thirds of the piece, at the top is the inscription "SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA DE LA CONCORDIA". At the bottom there are two branches of flowery citrus joined with a tie with the celestial and white colors.

Flag

It was established by municipal decree no. 29803 of December 10, 1997. It is divided into two horizontal fields, gules the upper one (green) and sínople the lower one (red). The partition is emphasized by a figure in the form of a two-color strip (white and yellow) that has a cross from the scabbard toward the center, and from the center toward the slope a tacuara spear with red ties. In the center of the flag there is a cogwheel, a palm tree, a wavy figured horizon and a national sun.

Official Song

By means of municipal ordinance no. By ordinance No. 33654, sanctioned on July 10, 2008 and promulgated on the 29th of the same month, the "Official Song of the City of Concordia" to the nominated work I am an Entrerriano, I am going for Concordia, with lyrics and music by Rubén Fracalossi and Luis Conté.

History

On November 1, 2007, the deliberative council of the municipality approved an ordinance that changed the date of commemoration of the founding of the city:

Article 1: Recognise as a founding legal act of the city of Concordia, the decree sanctioned by the Legislature of Entre Ríos on 29 November 1831.

However, it was not implemented and the celebration continued to be held on February 6, due to the date of 1832 when the congress of Entre Ríos enacted the founding law. The person in charge of founding the Villa de la Concordia was the priest Mariano José del Castillo, under the title of special commissioner. The builder of the first public buildings, such as the headquarters and others, was Colonel Antonio Navarro.

Politics: list of municipal presidents

• Federico Zorraquín 5/1/1873 al 6/3/1877
• Pedro Ponzano 6/3/1877 to 27/4/1877
• José Z. Cortes 27/4/1877 to 16/1/1881
• Timotheo Rodríguez 16/1/1881 to 4/1/1882
• Mariano Manzano 4/1/1882 as at 31/12/1886
• Miguel González 1/1/1887 as at 31/12/1888
• Fernando García 1/1/1889 at 31/12/1892
• David O’Connor 1/1/1893 as at 31/12/1898
• Juan P. Garat 1/1/1899 as at 31/12/1902
• Juan Salduna 1/1/1903 to 23/1/1907
• Germán Vidal 24/1/1907 to 30/9/1910
• Juan Salduna 1/10/1910 to 31/12/1913
• Esteban Zorraquín 1/1/1914 to 31/12/1915
• José M. Requena 1/1/1916 to 11/10/1918
• Pedro N. Urruzola 19/10/1918 to 3/11/1924
• Santiago De Donatis 7/11/1924 to 1/10/1928
• Manuel Molaguero (Interino) 2/10/1928 to 31/12/1929
• Miguel E. Castro (Interino) 1/1/1930 to 2/11/1930
• Santiago De Donatis 3/11/1930 to 8/5/1933
• Pedro N. Urruzola (Interino) 8/5/1933 to 9/8/1933
• Sunday A. Larocca 10/8/1933 at 30/6/1939
• Eduardo Nogueira 1/7/1939 to 30/6/1943
• Alberto Benavídez, Municipal Commissioner, 1/7/1943 to 23/4/1944
• Andrés Rivara, Municipal Commissioner, 24/4/1944 to 26/6/1945
• Héctor Conte Grand (Municipal Commissioner) 27/6/1945 to 15/7/1945
• Luis Carlos Dovis (Municipal Commissioner) 16/7/1945 to 22/5/1946
• Carlos Mugica (Municipal Commissioner) 23/5/1946 to 20/6/1946
• Roberto J. Inda (Municipal Commissioner) 20/6/1946 to 9/9/1946
• Carlos R. Arias (Municipal Commissioner) 9/9/1946 to 28/1/1947
• Ricardo G. Figueroa (Municipal Commissioner) 29/1/1947 to 12/2/1947
• José María Odorisio (Municipal Commissioner) 12/2/1947-16/6/1947
• Severino Galeano (Municipal Commissioner) 16/6/1947 to 20/2/1948
• Cervantes A. Beltrán 20/2/1948 to 28/4/1948
• Severino Galeano 29/4/1948 to 22/5/1950
• Gerardo Yoya 22/5/1950 to 3/6/1952
• Gerardo Yoya 4/6/1952 to 21/9/1955
• Sunday M. Trimarco (Municipal Commissioner) 21/9/1955 to 28/9/1955
• Adolfo E. Díaz (Municipal Commissioner) 28/9/1955 to 23/10/1955
• Juan José Ardoy (Municipal Commissioner) 24/10/1955 to 30/4/1958
• Esteban Aníbal Gómez 1/5/58 to 29/4/1962
• Manuel Alberto Peña (Municipal Commissioner) 30/4/1962 to 22/6/1962
• Carlos María Gómez (Municipal Commissioner) 22/6/1962 to 25/7/1962
• Pablo O. Harrand (Municipal Commissioner) 25/7/1962 to 18/2/1963
• July O. Casarotto, Municipal Commissioner, 19/2/1963 to 11/10/1963
• José Ramón Larocca (President Municipal) 12/10/1963 to 28/6/1966
• Abelardo T. Montiel (Interventor Municipal) 28/6/1966-2/9/1966
• Rafael J. Tiscornia (City) 3/9/1966 to 24/5/1973
• Fernando Méndez Graff 25/5/1973 at 5/3/1975
• Manuel Mendoza (Interino) 5/3/1975 to 24/3/1976
• Aldo de J. Simoncelli (Interventor Provincial) 24/3/1976 al 19/5/1976
• Raphael J. Tiscornia (City) 20/5/1976 to 25/5/1981
• Jorge Isaac Aragón (City) 25/5/1981 to 11/12/1983
• Jorge Pedro Busti 11/12/1983 to 10/12/1987 (PJ)
• Elvio Bordet 11/12/1987 al 10/12/1991 (PJ)
• Jorge Pedro Busti 11/12/1991 at 10/12/1995 (PJ)
• Juan Carlos Cresto 11/12/1995 at 10/12/1999 (PJ)
• Hernan Orduna 11/12/1999 at 10/12/2003 (PJ)
• Juan Carlos Cresto 11/12/2003 at 10/12/2007 (PJ)
• Gustavo Bordet 11/12/2007 at 10/12/2015 (PJ)
• Enrique Tomás Cresto 11/12/2015 at 13/01/2020 (PJ)
• Alfredo Francolini 13/01/2020 at 30/09/2022 (PJ)
• Enrique Tomás Cresto 03/10/2022 al Presente(PJ)

Geography

Demographics

Population: 152,282 inhabitants (Indec, 2010) (51.7% women, 48.3% men).

Ejido of the municipality

Panoramic of the Great Salt Dam, located in the Concordia ejido.

Urban area of the City of Concordia.

The jurisdictional area of the municipality of Concordia is called ejido, within which are included peripheral neighborhoods isolated from the main urban area:

• in the south: Benito Legerén, Yuquerí Chico, Las Tejas, El Martillo, El Tala, Parque Industrial, and Villa Adela;
• in the west zone: Cambá Paso;
• in the north zone: Villa Zorraquín and Osvaldo Magnasco.

During the construction of the Salto Grande dam, the satellite city of La Bianca was formed, today joined to the rest of the city forming a populous neighborhood.

The original ejido of the city was determined according to the Provincial Law of Ejido sanctioned on March 9, 1872 and promulgated on March 13 of that year:

ARTICLE 1. The ejidos of all the cities, villas and towns of the province will have a surface of four square leagues, exclusively for the development of the population and for agriculture, and the grazing of farms in them is excluded.

Article 2. The areas in the ejidos will be divided into 3 sections: the first will consist of a half league from front to bottom; it is exclusively intended for the development of the populations the second around the first will have the surface of the ejido and will be divided into lots of 16 blocks each.
ARTICLE 3.o - Where the land is not provided to draw a perfect square, it will be completed giving the surface equivalent to the areas specified in Article 1.o.

(...)

The limits of the ejido were supported by the Uruguay River to the east, the Ayuí Grande stream to the north, the Yuquerí Grande stream to the south, and a straight line parallel to the current national route no. it passes immediately to the west of Campo de Abasto and Osvaldo Magnasco.

By law of July 4, 1889, the ejido was expanded, although it later returned to its previous limits:

Art. 1. Increase the ejido of the City of Concordia up to 25,500 hectares of land, which will be located in the North and North West of the City, which are subject to the municipal jurisdiction; the limits of the same municipality are accordingly fixed in the following form: By the North Gualeguaycito, the Sud Juquerí Grande; to the West a line that leaves the Rio Grande Juquerí end in the Gualeguaycito and Uruguay.

The ejido was expanded by means of Law No. 4708, sanctioned and promulgated on April 9, 1968 by the military intervention of the province, incorporating part of the Yuquerí district:

1.o.- Expand the municipal radio of the City of Concordia to the following limits:

ESTE: The Yuquerí Grande Rice from the Cambá Paso Bridge to its mouth in the Uruguay River.
SUR-ESTE: The Uruguay River, from the mouth of the Yuquerí Grande Arroyo, to the Yuquerí Chico Arroyo.
SUD-OESTE: El Arroyo Yuquerí Chico, from its mouth in the Uruguay River to the Yuquerí Bridge,

NORD-ESTE: The road area of the F.C.N.G. Urquiza, from the Yuquerí Chico Bridge to the Yuquerí Grande Arroyo.

Through Law No. 8787 enacted on December 21, 1993 and promulgated on December 23, 1993, the ejido was again expanded to include the part of the Suburbios district in the area where the Salto Grande dam is located: the sector between the Salto Grande reservoir, the former national route no. 14, the Ayuí Grande stream, and the Uruguay river and shores of the reservoir.

ARTICLE 1.o: The Municipal Ejido of Concordia, which is added the territory delimited by the Ejido of Colonia Ayuí (former National Route No. 14), the edge of the Lago de Salto Grande, the Uruguay River and the Arroyo Ayuí Grande.

According to these extensions, the ejido is surrounded by the Salto Grande reservoir; the ejidos of the municipalities of Colonia Ayuí, La Criolla and Estancia Grande, the ejidos of the government juntas of Colonia General Roca and Estación Yuquerí and the Uruguay River that separates it from the Eastern Republic of Uruguay.

Its limits begin at the point where the former national route no. until a road that in a straight line reaches the Yuquerí Grande stream passing immediately to the west of the Osvaldo Magnasco neighborhood and the Campo de Abasto, then continues along this stream to the railway bridge that crosses it (road to Buenos Aires), then following the railroad to the southwest until it reaches the Yuquerí Chico stream and along it to its mouth in the Uruguay River. Then it goes up the river along the international border (thalweg) to the Salto Grande dam and then along the coast of the reservoir to the former national route No. 14.

Climate

The average summer temperature of the city is between 22 and 26 °C, while the winter temperature is between 12 and 15 °C. The average humidity is 73% and rainfall reaches an average of 1,300 mm per year.

Concordia's average climatic parameters
Month	Ene.	Feb.	Mar.	Open up.	May.	Jun.	Jul.	Ago.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
Average temperature (°C)	32.8	30.8	28.9	24.5	21.1	17.5	17.8	20.1	21.1	25.3	27.7	30.9	24.8
Temp. medium (°C)	19.6	19.1	16.9	13.8	10.2	7.4	7.4	8.7	9.5	12.7	15.5	17.4	13.1
Total precipitation (mm)	117.7	161.2	157.1	150.8	109.8	53.2	53.5	73.7	90.3	109.0	152.0	79.7	1308.0
Source: SMN Argentina average 1981-1990

In December 2015, Concordia suffered a major flood from the Uruguay River that left more than 20,000 people evacuated from the city.

Seismicity

On January 21, 1948, an earthquake occurred in Entre Ríos with an epicenter in Chajarí, 90 km northeast of Concordia, which had a strong impact on the region, due to the absolute ignorance of the possibility of the existence of seismic movements in the region. region.

The province responds to the subfaults “del río Paraná”, and “del río de la Plata”, and the fault of “Punta del Este”, with low seismicity. Its last expressions occurred in addition to that of 1948, on June 5, 1888 (134 years old), at 3:20 UTC-3, with a magnitude of approximately 5.0 on the Richter scale (1888 Río de la Plata earthquake).

Concordian shield.

Tourism

Notable buildings

• Cathedral of San Antonio de Padua was opened on June 13, 1899, containing a main nave and two secondary schools. The main altar was donated by the daughter of General Justo José de Urquiza, Flora Urquiza de Soler.
• The ruinous palace of the Pampa Soler.
• The Arruabarrena Palace, this palatial building built in the purest French style, was built in 1919 by the family that gave it the name, one of the most traditional in the area.

Arruabarrena Palace, currently a museum, was the headquarters of an Argentine Army command.

• San Carlos Castle built in 1888 public interest building on the coast of the Uruguay River and visited by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on one of his trips, this castle has been dedicated a tale called "oasis", and it is even thought that in part "The Little Prince" is inspired in this place.
• The central square 25 of May was built in 1833 by the founder Colonel Antonio Navarro, in the monument to General José de San Martín located in his center, you can see parts of the canyons removed to the national hero of Italy, Giuseppe Garibaldi in his passage through the area.
• Building of the municipality, located opposite Plaza 25 de Mayo, was opened in 1943.

Monument to Urquiza in the square of the same name.

• Estación Concordia Central de Ferrocarril General Urquiza, began to be built in 1871. Declared of Historical Interest and called Estación de la Cultura.

Central Concord Station.

Economy

The economic structure of the city is based largely on agricultural production, especially citrus, rice, eucalyptus, pine trees and some intensive crops such as blueberries and pecan nuts. Livestock production also stands out. The city of Concordia has been recognized since 1963 as the "National Capital of Citrus". The main factories installed in the city are: Egger (company that previously had the name of "Masisa"), Baggio, Eca, Litoral Citrus, etc.

Culture

It has a branch of the National University of Entre Ríos, made up of the faculties of Administration Sciences, where public accountant, computer systems analyst and Portuguese teachers, among others, and Computer Sciences are taught. Food, in which you can take a degree in Food Engineering, Higher Technician in Food Technology, and a technical degree in gastronomy. Other universities have established sub-sites in Concordia, among them: the National Technological University (U.T.N.), the Catholic University of Salta and the Autonomous University of Entre Ríos.

Local museums

• Regional History: in the Arruabarrena Palace where there is an important collection of Uruguay River stones, Jesuit ceramics and archaeology pieces of approximately 5000 pieces.
• Municipal de Artes Visuales: founded in 1965 in the center of the city, has Exhibition Hall of local artists and the region with 300 works.
• De Anthropología y de Ciencias Naturales: Created on May 6, 1996, originally located at the facilities of the Central Concordia Station, in 2007 he moved to a house in Rivadavia street 456, corner Carriego, declared Cultural Heritage of the City and the Province of Entre Ríos.
• Museo de Salto Grande: located at the current Ayuí stop.
• From Remembrance: it is the First Particular Museum with Civil and Military Honoplatetry, in it is represented the local history from 1834 to 1950.
• Jewish Museum of Entre Ríos: shows Jewish immigration driven by the Hirsch Baron Mauricio in Entre Ríos through the Jewish Colonization Asociation (JCA). It was opened in 2007 in an old case of Entre Ríos Street.

Television

Air

In Concordia you can see three channels that are broadcast in this city:

• Tele5 Concordia, with its own content and direct repetition of other channels.
• Canal 12 María de la Concordia, with its own content and direct repetition of Canal 21 of the Archbishop of Buenos Aires.
• Channel 13 Concordia, which only repeats directly other Argentine channels.

Argentine broadcast channels are also viewed in other cities such as:

• Canal 9 de Paraná
• Canal 7 de Buenos Aires

And Uruguayan channels:

• Canal 8 de Salto
• Uruguay National Television

Wire

Concordia owns a cable television system, Video Cable Concordia, which has a local channel called Canal 2. Channel 2 broadcasts local programming, such as its three-edition newscast, «Central de Noticias». and its entertainment program, « The Mirona Orange». .

Other information of interest

• In 2008, the collectivities of immigrants and their descendants were organized: German, Brazilian, Cuban, Italian, Uruguayan, Swiss, Jewish, Syrian-Lebanese, Spanish, Hungarian, Croatian, Basque, Arabic, Greek, French, Polish, and others in the process of organizing.
• On the north coast of the municipal ejido of Concordia is the Salto Grande dam, built and maintained in collaboration with Uruguay.
• The city is home to the Catholic bishop of Concordia, created on 10 April 1961, suffrage of the archdiocese of Paraná.
• In the city, a historic unit of the Argentine Army, the Cavalry Regiment of Tanks 6 Blandengues, has been tuned since 1914, this cavalry unit is a historical continuation of the first cryollo regiment of the Virreinato del Río de la Plata (the Blandengues de Buenos Aires) founded in colonial times to serve on the borders.
• It has a thermal spa called Vertiente de la Concordia, which has motorized tourism in the area. This thermal complex has five pools whose temperature ranges between 36 and 43 °C. It was opened on 3 April 1998. The thermal water comes from a 1200 m depth drilling, obtaining a flow of 400,000 L/h, and a temperature of 49 °C in the well's mouth. There is also another thermal well for which a hotel and room complex is being developed in Villa Zorraquín. A third well has started drilling in November 2007 in the Salto Grande area and was put into operation as a thermal complex in 2010.
• The lake-embalse formed by the Salto Grande dam is used for water sports, in it are the marinas: Luis, San Rafael and Concordia Yachting Club.
• In addition to beaches on the lake (Punta Viracho, Las Palmeras, Playa Los Médicos, Las Palmeritas, Las Perdices, Playa Sol, etc.), the Uruguay River (Place Los Sauces, Nebel, Balneario Municipal, Salto Chico, Camping La Tortuga Alegre, etc.) and on various streams Steps like Yuquerí Chico, the Ayuí Grande and the Yuquebilrí Grande: Cascaditas, Dr.

Costanera de Concordia.

• In the center of the city is an attractive pedestrian street and the Provincial Casino at the Hotel Palmar.

Peatonal Entre Ríos.

• The city has the municipal nature reserve «Parque San Carlos o Parque Rivadavia», of 98 ha of lomadas and jungles in gallery, in which are the ruins of the «castillo de San Carlos», built in 1888 (in the style of Luis XV) by the French Count Edouard de Machy. Four decades later he was occupied by the Fuchs Valon family, who accidentally related to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In 1993 it was declared a Wild Bird Reserve and in 1995, a Protected Natural Area and a Forest Reserve Area in the gallery.
• A developing private zoo called "Arca de Enri Mir" contains a breeding centre and reproduction of native species, as well as bengala tigers, elephants, chimpanzees, etc.
• There is also the "Capibara" Wildlife Reserve
• The author of The Little Prince I would leave, a while later, stamped the park San Carlos in a memorable tale of his book Tierra de Hombres, Oasis. At the Palace a monument was built to its most widespread work, The Little Prince.
• In one of the highest hills in the park, is the Monument to the Eastern Exodus, which recalls the permanence of José Gervasio Artigas and his village in the Ayuí Camp between 1811 and 1812.
• Within the park San Carlos is the first botanical garden in the province of Entre Ríos, formerly known as the Ca ́a Pora Botanical Garden and today "Aníbal Oscar Carnevalini" (name imposed in 2006 in honor of its founder) and destined to preserve native species of the area.

Worked at the City of Concordia.

• Next to the campsite La Tortuga Alegre is the natural reserve Avayuvá located a few km south of the Salto Grande dam.
• Only 10 km from the city centre is the City of Concordia with its 2 possible traces of 3114 m and 4700 m.
• The Carnival of Concordia has increased its splendour year by year and currently has an asphalt corsodrome of 380 m in length.
• In addition to carnival, other important parties that take place in the city are:
  • National Citriculture Festival first half of December
  • National Boga Fishing Festival January, at the campsite La Tortuga Alegre
  • Festival of Students September, with chariot parade
  • Exhibition of the Rural Society of Concordia in October
  • Feast of the Golondrinas exhibition of handicrafts in Easter
  • Immigrant Regional Festival September
  • Marathon of Kings Race of 10 km that takes place on the first weekend of each year. It is an international event as it brings together more than 3000 competitors from different countries.
  • Seven Lake Event organized in the second half of January of each year, where rugby teams from the region and the province gather on the shores of Lake Salto Grande.
• Among the main sports clubs of the city are: Club Social y Deportivo La Bianca, Salto Grande, Ferrocarril, Libertad, Club Estudiantes Concordia, Centro ex Alumnos Capuchinos, Wanderers, Hípico, Defensores del Nebel, Sarmiento, Victoria, Concordia Golf Club, Victoria Park, Concordia Yachting Club, Regatas and the Club Atlético Colegiales.

Mitre Park.

• In front of the airfield and the airport, there is the aeroclub, which has an aviation school and a fleet of 4 aircraft.
• June 13: Patron's party in honor of Saint Anthony of Padua.

San Carlos Castle

Castillo de San Carlos (2018).

The 98 ha of the San Carlos settlement had various ups and downs, documents prove that they went through successive sales since 1867. In May of that year they became the property of Don Manuel Bica, a continuous area known as El Naranjal was also owned by his property, in it he built a large house with a viewpoint to the east (it exists today in ruins) since he wanted to observe the movements on the other side of the Uruguay River where he was from.

When Manuel Bica died, Carlos Alberti bought the land and the large house with the intention of installing a salting room that began operating on March 21, 1883, of which today the ruins can be seen to the south of the castle (double chimney of masonry).

The National Bank takes over the salting room and the land and sells them to Juan O'Connor and then a French firm takes over and signs an agreement to establish a canning factory that determined the transfer from Paris of Edward Demachy. The family chronicle tells that the decision to send Eduard Demachy arises from a conflict created when he himself presents a beautiful woman and marries her, an artist by profession who worked on the Parisian stage. This made the whole family very angry, since the young lady was not within the same social class as the Demachys and therefore they did not accept her.

That is why Eduard agreed to make the trip and he does it in his own boat together with his wife with lavish outfits and suitcases. They arrived at the Port of Concordia and stayed at the elegant Gran Hotel Colón.

He bought the 100 ha and built the house on the most outstanding hill with plans brought from France, moving into it in 1888.

The Louis XV-style mansion was built with materials brought from various parts of Europe, using only locally washed stone extracted from the river coast as exterior cladding. The T-shaped iron was brought from England, the wood for the floors and linings, from Germany, the central heating was made with Carrara marble stoves that came from Italy along with the refractive material from France, where they also came from. the crystal chandeliers, the furniture, the paintings and the velvet lining of the walls. It also had a gas lighting system that was distributed through pipes, quite an advance for the time in the area.

Another of the advances was the running water system and also the mobile toilets. The kitchen was 260 meters from the house in the place where the botanical garden is today.

Demachy lived only three years in the mansion and then together with his wife they decided to return to France, disappearing without explanation one Sunday in October 1891. They only took their clothes and some belongings, leaving everything of value in the mansion Thinking of going back one day.

The house remained the property of the French, then it was rented to various families, until it was sold to the Sociedad Rural de Concordia, which occupied it for a short time. In 1929 it was acquired by the Municipality of Concordia, which rented it to the Fuchs Balón family.

This French family with exuberant tastes had a great attraction for animals (wild foxes, a monkey, mongooses, an iguana and snakes).

One day the two daughters of the couple, Edda (9 years old) and Susanne (14 years old) when they were riding saw a small plane land in a field next to the house. He was an intrepid aviator who broke one of the wheels when he landed. This aviator was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who was not yet a writer and was charting the air route between Buenos Aires and Asunción when he decided to land to rest.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry found himself trapped by the magic that enveloped the place and in 1932 he wrote an article in a Paris magazine with the title «Las princesitas argentinas». It is inevitable to associate his experience in Entre Ríos with the children's fable that would make him famous The Little Prince. It also reflects exactly what he lived through this experience in the chapter «Oasis» of the book Tierra de hombres, where he says: «I had landed in a field and I did not know that I was going to live a fairy tale, it was in a field near Concordia in Argentina».

The pilot would return several times to that location. In 1935 the family moved to a ranch.

The house was left abandoned and looted, losing everything of value, ending with a huge fire on September 25, 1938.

Neighborhoods

The municipality of Concordia recognizes the existence of 110 neighborhoods within the ejido, each one of them has a neighborhood commission elected by the residents:

Osvaldo Magnasco, a peripheral neighborhood of Concordia.

Featured Concordians

• Alejandro González Crivelli (1981-), dancer, teacher and choreographer of Argentine tango;
• Isabel Sarli (1933-2019), actress;
• Santos A. Maggi (22 December 1933 -) Bandoneonist and composer
• María Elena Haoys (30 April 1937-5 June 1993), known as Liza Fontán was a singer and actress;
• Jorge Pedro Busti (1947-), three times governor of Entre Ríos;
• Coti Sorokin (1973-), singer;
• Victor Bernay (1962-), former footballer and field assistant;
• Isidoro Blaistein (1933-2004), writer;
• Martín Bordagaray (1978-), photographer;
• Gustavo Bou (1990-), footballer;
• Enrique Tomás Cresto (1911-2000), governor of Entre Ríos;
• Juan Carlos Colman (1922-1998), footballer;
• Pablo Cuevas, (1986-), of Uruguayan nationality, professional tennis player;
• Felix Dufourq (1860-1909), marine;
• Daniel Durand (1964-), poet and editor;
• Beatriz Galli, writer;
• Nelson García (1963-), motor racing pilot;
• Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso (1917-2000), historian and anthropologist;
• Diego Jara (1983-), footballer;
• Horacio Malvicino (1929-), jazz guitarist and tango;
• Stella Maris Ponce, writer;
• Juan Martín Ponte (1985-), motor racing driver;
• Isaac Ganón (1916-1975), Uruguayan sociologist;
• Lorena Meritano (1970-), actress;
• Gustavo Ruiz Díaz (1981-), footballer;
• Arturo Sampay (1911-1977), jurist and constitutionalist;
• Juan José de Soiza Reilly, writer;
• José Luis Talermann (1989-), international motor racing driver.
• Walter Bou (1993-), footballer;
• Marcos Kremer (1997-), rugby player;
• Federico Bruno (1993-), athlete;
• Marcos Senesi (1997-), footballer;
• Lucas Robertone (1997-), footballer;
• Nadia Cutro (1986-), rally driver.

Deployment of the Argentine Armed Forces in Concordia

Argentine Army

Units of the Concordian Military Guarndition	Acronym
Tank Cavalry Regiment 6 «Blandengues»	RCT 6

Parishes of the Catholic Church in Concordia

Cathedral of Concordia.

Urban transportation

• Annex: Urban transport of the city of Concordia