Missions Province

Misiones, in the text of the provincial Constitution: Misiones Province, is one of the twenty-three provinces of the Argentine Republic. In turn, it is one of the twenty-four self-governing states or first-order jurisdictions that make up the country, and one of the twenty-four national legislative electoral districts. Its capital and most populous city is Posadas. It is located in the northeast of the country, in the Norte Grande Argentino region, bordered to the north and east by the Iguazú, San Antonio, Pepirí Guazú and Uruguay rivers that separate it from Brazil, to the south by Corrientes, through the Itaembé streams and Chimiray, and to the west with the Paraná River that separates it from Paraguay.

Geography

Its territory covers an area of 29,801 km², which is comparable to that of Belgium. It is the third smallest province after Tucumán and Tierra del Fuego: it represents only 0.8% of the country's total.

Ground road in Misiones, with its typical reddish colour.

Geologically, it integrates the Brasilia massif through the Misiones plateau. In Misiones there are different types of soils, the most characteristic being those derived from basalt, since they cover two thirds of the territory. These soils are known as "lateritic" or "latosols", and its coloration is reddish or reddish-brown due to the decomposition of the clayey basalts and metalliferous; They also have a high content of iron and aluminum oxide. In some places the soil is shallow and with outcropping rocks, in others stony and with very steep slopes.

The formations found in Misiones are called plateaus, although they are plateaus of water and wind erosion, with a mamelon shape. In this province, folding has not occurred, but rather fractures of the Precambrian substratum, in which the Brasilia massif is located. Through the center of the plateau rises the Sierra de Misiones or Central, which is the watershed between the Paraná and Uruguay rivers, reaching its highest point, 843 meters above sea level, near Bernardo de Irigoyen, on Rincón hill. To the south is the Sierra del Imán or Itacuara and to the north the Sierra de la Victoria, which acts as a watershed between the Paraná and Iguazú rivers. The latter, by cutting the mountains, forms the Iguazú Falls.

Water resources

The province is surrounded by five rivers, three of which are of great importance: the Paraná, the Uruguay and the Iguazú, the natural drainage of large regions with abundant rainfall. The other two are the San Antonio and the Pepirí Guazú. No less than eight hundred permanent watercourses flow into them, of which two hundred and seventy flow towards the Paraná and the Itaembé stream, one hundred and twenty towards the Iguazú and San Antonio rivers, and the rest towards the Uruguay and Pepirí Guazú rivers.

Main river courses

Paraná Basin

• Garupá
• Yabebyrý (Iabebirí).
• Cuñapirú
• Piraý Guazú.
• Piraý (Pira-í) Miní.
• Urugua-í
• Iguazú (in which the river San Antonio runs out).

Cuenca del Uruguay

• Pepirí Guazú
• Yaboti

The possibility of building a hydroelectric power station on the Paraná River, near Corpus or Garupá has been raised; This possibility has been blocked by the holding of a provincial plebiscite, in which 88% of voters spoke out against the project.

Iguazu Falls

Partial view of a small sector of the Iguazú Falls.

The Iguazú Falls, located on the border between the state of Paraná (Brazil) and the province of Misiones (Argentina), make up the territory of the Iguazú National Park. They are made up of 275 waterfalls up to 82 meters high, fed by the flow of the Iguazú River. On November 11, 2011, they were declared one of the seven natural wonders of the world through a vote on a website that owns the New7Wonder brand, involving the participation of more than 100 million people from all over the world.

The best-known islands are San Martín and Isla Grande: they lie upriver, dividing it into two arms that meet soon after, tumbling through rude basalt and lava formations until colliding at Garganta del Diablo, where the The river continues until it flows into the Paraná river, which together with the Paraguay and Uruguay rivers, contribute to the formation of the La Plata basin.

Climate

Climate types of Missions according to the climate classification of Köppen

Misiones has a humid subtropical climate with no dry season, making it the wettest province in the country. The low-altitude localities in the southern sector and in the Paraná and Uruguay valleys have a humid semitropical climate, while at higher altitudes the maritime tropical climate occurs, a climate type similar to the humid subtropical climate. The prevailing winds are from the northeast, southeast and east. The biome that it presents is the missionary jungle and gallery forest. Part of the jungle has been transformed by man for crops or livestock. The original biome is protected in the Iguazú National Park and other provincial parks and reserves. The average annual temperature is 24 °C.

Missionary Jungle

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Missionary jungle in Iguazú National Park.

The missionary jungle, located in Misiones, Argentina, is part of the neotropical plant formation of the Atlantic forest, shared with Brazil and Paraguay. It is the southernmost prolongation of the Paraguayan jungle, which until the mid-20th century covered much of what today are the Brazilian states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, the northern end of Rio Grande do Sul and eastern Paraguay. The missionary jungle is located in the green corridor of Misiones.

It is one of the most biodiverse regions in Argentina, with about 3,000 species of vascular plants and 500 species of birds. It is the habitat of the yaguareté and the place where the largest number of specimens of this species are concentrated in Argentina.

The missionary jungle is a tropical rainforest with very hot summers and relatively cool winters. It is a plant formation benefited by soils very rich in organic matter, a lot of sun and warm and perhumid climate (more than 3000 mm of precipitation per year). It has a dense and exuberant forage. In tropical latitudes, the missionary jungle maintains much of the characteristics of a tropical rainforest with areas similar to laurisilva and abundant latifoliates.

It is considered a carbon sink, concentrating 920.995 Gigagramos (Gg) of CO2.

The missionary jungle currently occupy 35% of the territory of the province of Misiones. Until the mid-19th century the jungle covered the entirety of the present province of Misiones. By 1950 the indigenous forest area in Misiones covered 2,700,000 hectares. In the 1990s the jungle had been reduced by 44%.

The causes of deforestation are the installation of agricultural activities, such as tea, tobacco and math herb plantations, and timber industry activities. Deforestation had several different moments, from the Jesuit missions that sought to install agricultural practices and fostered the cultivation of the math yerba, to the ideals of civilization and progress of the late nineteenth century that saw the jungle as an inhospitable place that should be quickly conquered for its economic exploitation.

In order to protect the existing forest area, provincial law XVI - No. 105, the Native Forests Ordinance, and its regulatory decrees were enacted. These established a total of 1,200,000 hectares of native forest to 2017 that cannot be deforested, as part of categories I and II of the Native Forest Act. The protected resource management system in the missionary jungle has more than 100 different conservation units, including parks, reserves, natural monuments, areas and wildlife refuges.

Ecology

The province of Misiones has the Natural Areas Law no. 2932/94, added to an alleged environmental control derived from the Forest Law no. 854 and the Protected Forests Law no.

Misiones is the only Argentine province with an environmental and forestry agency of ministerial rank. This occurs, on the one hand, as the enforcement authority of the Protected Natural Areas Law 2932/94 and a forest control scheme, within the framework of the Forest Law 854, and the Protected Forest Law 3426.

The system of Protected Natural Areas, with an approximate area of 778,662 ha, includes a range of provincial parks, state and private nature reserves (Yaguaroundí Private Reserve and Yacutinga Private Reserve) and the Yabotí Biosphere Reserve, recognized as such by UNESCO.

The two areas of the Ministry, Ecology and Forests, have the Special Green Corridor Management Unit, whose creation law 3631, was sanctioned in 1999, with which it aspires to ensure the connectivity of the forest mass, in 1,110 000 ha, both private land and provincial parks. The Green Corridor, together with the conservation of provincial parks and reserves, high basins that generate clean water, protective forests, points to sustainable development, at the service of the inalienable improvement of the quality of life of man, with a rational exploitation of the forest mass.

The Ministry of Ecology and Renewable Natural Resources has a special mission: to protect the environment and natural species, preserving their character as gene banks, environmental regulators and sources of raw materials in perpetuity, improving, when appropriate, their productivity; protect terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and habitats, which are home to migratory, endemic, rare, threatened and commercial use species; protect the ecosystems that contain watercourses, guaranteeing their subsistence in perpetuity; guarantee biological and genetic diversity and natural ecological and evolutionary processes; minimize soil erosion; preserve the natural, cultural, archaeological and paleontological heritage.

Flora

The missionary jungle still occupies 35% of the territory of the province.

Originally, the missionary jungle covered 2,900,000 hectares, which represented the entire missionary territory. With the construction of national routes 12, 14 and other provincial routes, human access to almost all corners of the province was facilitated. The extraction of raw material and the population increase together with the expansion of the land used for cultivation caused a serious reduction of the native forest. Currently, some 945,000 hectares remain, which represents 35% of the territory of Misiones. In order to avoid a further reduction in this forest area, some organizations currently support the creation of more stringent forest laws.

The missionary jungle near the Tabaý jump.

Among the most important species are:

• the anchico (Popadenia rigid),
• The Cancharana (Cabralea cangerana),
• the maco cedar (cabralea oblongifoliola),
• the missionary cedar (Cedrela fissilis Vellozo),
• the guatambú (Balfourodendron riedelianum),
• the incense (Myrocarpus frondosus),
• the lapacho (Tabebuia),
• the white laurel (Nectandra lanceolata),
• the black laurel (Nectandra megapotámica),
• the sea preta (Diatenopteryx sorbifolia),
• the white mora (Iraqian pigeon),
• the palm tree (Euterpe edulis),
• pink stick (Aspidosperma polyneuron),
• the peteribí (Cordia trichotoma),
• the pine Paraná or curý (Araucaria angustifolia),
• the rabo-itá (Lonchocarpus leucanthus),
• the timbó (Enterolobium contortisiliquum),
• the urunday (Astronium balansae) and
• the ibira-pitá (Peltophorum dubium).

The tropical forest occupies 35% of the territory of the province, and the most serious causes of its disappearance are indiscriminate deforestation and burning to carry out agricultural practices. It stands out for high rainfall records (rain) that are the result of humid winds from the Atlantic Ocean. Average relative humidity ranges from 75 to 100% with significant night dews.

Temperatures range between 19 °C (average for the winter season, especially in June and July) and 29 °C (average for the summer months of January, February and March), reaching temperatures of 44 °C during the day, in summer.

Wildlife

Tucan in captivity.

The fauna of the province is very rich in variety, although the continuous disappearance of the Misiones Forest has endangered a large number of species, the most striking are:

• the guazú water,
• the eagle barren,
• the monkey eagle,
• the widow eagle,
• The weasel of water,
• The red macaw,
• the harpy,
• the dark snout,
• Wine parrot,
• the parrot chorao,
• the macuco,
• Maracana face shaved,
• The red-faced monkey,
• the giant otter,
• Ocelote,
• the tingling bear,
• the duck serrucho,
• the tapir,
• The tatu wagon,
• the deer of the Pampas,
• I'll take over,
• the yacutinga,
• the yaguareté and
• Pytoco fox.

History

Demographics

Territorial division

Political Division of the province of Misiones.

The province is divided into 77 municipalities grouped into 17 departments. No part of the provincial territory is outside the municipalities (system of adjacent common lands).

Misiones recognizes municipal autonomy. To see a detailed alphabetical list of municipalities see Annex: Municipalities of Misiones, for information on the municipal organization of the province, see Misiones Municipal Organization. The following is the list of departments with the municipalities into which each one is divided.

The constitution of the province was approved on April 21, 1958.

Immigration

In the beginning it was populated by indigenous people (mainly Avá and Mbyá), descendants of Spaniards and some descendants of sub-Saharan Africans (who escaped from slavery in Brazil) with different degrees of miscegenation among themselves, during the century XIX the Argentine government encouraged the arrival of immigrants from central and eastern Europe to populate the territory that currently makes up the province of Misiones: they settled in the north Germans; in the center, Scandinavians and Russians; and in the south, Ukrainians, Russians and Poles. In addition, since the XX century, a large number of Paraguayans have continuously arrived (largest immigrant group of all) and Brazilians, the former being mostly mestizos (generally of Spanish and Avá descent) and, to a lesser extent, descendants of central and eastern Europeans; and the latter mostly of the latter and Portuguese ancestry, and to a lesser extent partial descendants of sub-Saharan Africans (generally mulattoes who also had Portuguese ancestry and zambos with partial ancestry from some indigenous peoples) who had arrived in present-day Brazil as slaves in the colonial era. This generated a great conjugation of cultures, which has a marked influence on the customs, creeds and gastronomy of the place, becoming a province of eminently mestizo culture (with a great Hispanic and Avá imprint) to which a significant German contribution was added. and Slavic and, to a small extent, Bantu.

Main cities

It should be noted that only the population of the urban area of each municipality is taken into account based on data from the 2010 Census.

• Posadas (275.028 hab.).
• Oberá (63,310 hab.).
• Eldorado (60,521 hectares).
• Garupá (44,441).
• Puerto Iguazú (41.062 hectares).
• Apostles (26,710 hab.).
• Leandro N. Alem (23,339 hab.).
• American Garden (22.762 hectares).
• Saint Vincent (21.068 hectares).
• Monte Carlo (18.827 hectares).
• Puerto Rico (15,995).
• Aristobulus of the Valley (15,918 hectares).
• Puerto Esperanza (15,204 hectares).
• Wanda (13,901).
• Candelaria (13,777 hectares).

Posadas, capital and most populated city

Oberá, second most important city of Misiones

Eldorado City

Puerto Iguazú

Leandro N. Alem

Capioví, known for its beautiful Christmas ornaments

Puerto Rico, most of its residents are of German origin

Population

• Census 1991: 788 915 inhabitants (Indec, 1991) urban population: 493 417 inhabitants (Indec, 1991) rural population: 295 498 inhabitants (Indec, 1991).
• Census 2001: 963 869 inhabitants (Indec, 2001) urban population: 672 951 inhabitants (Indec, 2001), rural population: 290 918 (Indec, 2001).
• National census 2010: 1,101,593 urban population: 812,554 inhabitants (Indec, 2010), rural population: 289,039 inhabitants (Indec, 2010).

Gentilics

• Province of Misiones: missionary
• May 25: 25
• Alba Posse: albaposseño/a
• Almafuerte: Almafuertino/a
• Apostles: Apostoleño/a
• Aristobulus of the Valley: aristobulian
• Azara: random
• Bernardo de Irigoyen: irigoyense
• Bonpland: Bonpland
• Campo Grande: Campograndense
• Campo Ramón: Camporramonense
• Campo Viera: Campoviereño/a
• Candelaria: Candelariense/a
• Capioví: capiovicense
• Caraguataí: caraguatense
• Cerro Azul: cerroazuleño/a
• Cerro Corá: Cerrocorense
• Colonia Alberdi: alberdino/a
• Colonia Aurora: aurorense
• Colonia Polana: Polanense
• Colonia Victoria: Victorian
• Commander Andresito: Andresiteño/a
• Conception of the Sierra: concepcionero/a
• Corpus: corpuseño/a
• Two Arroyos: dosarroyense
• Two May: Two May
• The Alcazar: Alcazar
• The Sovereign: the Sovereign
• Eldorado: Eldorado
• Florentino Ameghino: ameghinense
• Garuhapé: garuhapeño/a
• Garupá: garupense
• General Alvear: alvearense
• General Urquiza: Urquiza
• Governor Roca: Roqueño/a
• Guaraní: Guaraniense
• Hippolyte Yrigoyen: yrigoyen
• Itacaruaré: itacaruarense
• Garden America: garden
• Leandro N. Alem: Leandrino
• Loreto: Loretense
• The Straights: Fight
• Martyrs: martyrs
• Monte Carlo: Montecarlense
• Oberá: obereño/a
• Olegario Víctor Andrade: Andradense
• Panambí: panambiense
• Posadas: posadeño/a
• Puerto Esperanza: Esperanceño/a
• Puerto Iguazú: iguazu
• Puerto Libertad: libertense
• Puerto Piray: pirayense
• Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico
  

  Wanda, Capital of precious stones
• Ruiz de Montoya:
• San Antonio: Sanantoniense
• San Ignacio: Sanignaciero
• San Javier: Sanjavierino/a
• San José: Sanjoseño/a
• San Martín: Sanmartiniano/a
• San Pedro: sampedrino/a
• Saint Vincent: Saint Vincent
• Santa Ana: Santanero/a
• Santa Rita: Santarriteño/a
• Santo Pipó: a saint
• Tobuna: Tobunense
• Three Capons:
• Wanda: wandense

Teen Pregnancy

In the province of Misiones, pregnancy is one of the problems faced by adolescents and raises the need for it to be treated from an integral angle, analyzing how socioeconomic factors and education within the family appear as causes that deepen.

The edited images correspond to the treatment of data of % NV of adolescent pregnancy in Argentina and Misiones during the period 2000-2011 and % NV of adolescent pregnancy in the province of Misiones by department during the year 2012, taking as sources of information the data of the Ministry of Public Health of the Argentine Nation and of Public Health of the province of Misiones.

Teenage Pregnancy in Argentina and Misiones. Comparison

Teenage in Missions by Department

Economy

Primary sector

The primary sector constitutes 11% of the economy, and a good part of its inputs are then processed in the secondary sector.

Nationally, Misiones stands out with more than 80% of the production of yerba mate and tea. Crops of yerba mate, tea, tobacco, mint, lemongrass, citronella, tungsten, cotton, sugar cane, cassava, peanuts and soybeans represent 93% of the provincial agricultural production. There are also graviola productions (called in the province araticú), bananas, mangoes, pineapple, coconuts, papayas, avocados, cocoa and coffee. A few decades ago, 80% of the tung of the national production was produced, but currently this product is not cultivated.-

In order to gradually replace the cultivation of tobacco, with international demand in continuous decline, an attempt was made to promote the plantation of citrus fruits and the raising of pigs. there is also a dairy basin and cheese production in the area of Alto Uruguay.-

In turn, the implanted forest area, that is, existing due to forestry, represents 42% of the national total; forestry mainly produces wood from planted forests and thinning wood.

Fishing makes a marginal contribution to the economy, although the development of sport fishing for dorados, pacús, surubís, pirá pitás, etc. has grown.

Mining is concentrated in the extraction of stones for construction and a semi-precious stone mine in Wanda.

Secondary sector

Agribusiness and forestry are the main activities of the secondary sector. There are yerba mate and tea dryers; herbal, rice and corn mills; tea packers; cassava starch factories; starch factories (from cassava starch); some textile and shoe factories; dairy processing (small quantity); preparation of medicines; a sugar mill in San Javier; a cotton gin in Leandro N. Alem; brick factories; packing or mechanical packing of fruits and vegetables; tobacco manufacturing; furniture factories; sawmills; laminators; factories of conglomerates, compensated, machimbre, plywood, posts, beams, boxes, toothpicks, broomsticks and other wood by-products; wood impregnation; sawmills; carpentry; preparation of regional sweets, jams and jellies; some refrigerators and slaughterhouses; auto parts manufacturing; viticulture (wine production) is carried out by hand in Cerro Azul; production of juices and concentrates (from citrus); some metallurgical; small distillation and rectification plants for essential (aromatic) oils, which are used to flavor food and in perfumery (non-existent industries in the province); production of aleurite or tung oil, used to make paints (they are not made here); distillation of other oils; some pasta factories; sausage factories; coal shops; some small industries dedicated to leather and cellulosic pulp and paper factories.

Cellulose pulp industry for paper

La pastera Celulosa Argentina SA, in Puerto Piraí.

1. Alto Paraná (Puerto Esperanza, Misiones). Questioned by environmentalists and neighbors for water pollution, air and destruction of native forests. The company claims to comply with the international standard. Technology: ECF.
2. Celulosa Puerto Piray (Puerto Piray, Misiones). Questioned by neighbors for lack of effluent treatment. Technology: uses elemental chlorine. National authorities would be evaluating their closure due to the high level of pollution.
3. Missionary Paper (Capioví (Misiones) Questioned by environmentalists for lack of effluent treatment. Technology: TCF.

The indicator of polluting effects is the bleaching technology: using elemental chlorine (rejected by international standards), elemental chlorine free (ECF) or totally chlorine free (TCF).

International cooperation agreements

The province of Misiones has signed lasting cooperation ties, in the nature of international cooperation agreements, with the following provinces:

• Atlantic Pyrenees, France (November 2011)

Tourism

This activity has grown enormously since the year 2000 and has become an important sector of the provincial economy.

The province is usually divided into 8 sub-regions:

• Great Waters Region
• Region of the Jungle
• Region of the Flowers
• Region of the Central Sierras
• Mate and Colorful Earth Region
• Region of the Missions
• Capital Region
• Saltos and Cascadas Region

Iguazu Falls

They are the main tourist attraction of the province. In 2005 the province received approximately 1,300,000 visitors of which 1,000,000 approx. they went to the Falls - the vast majority of foreigners go there. The other great pole of tourist attraction -although much smaller than the falls- are the Jesuit Reductions, especially that of San Ignacio, which received some 150,000 visitors in 2005 and is the best preserved. Posadas, although it receives a good number of tourists, is a transit city on the way to the main tourist destinations. In the rest of the province there are other tourist places, such as the Enchanted Fall in Aristóbulo del Valle, the Moconá Falls, 80 km from El Soberbio, the Indian Grotto, in Garuhapé and the Tabaí Falls in the vicinity of Jardín América. The cities of Oberá, Concepción de la Sierra, Montecarlo and Eldorado have some attractions, including Berrondo Falls (Oberá), the Küppers and Elena Falls (both in Eldorado), Caraguataí Island (Montecarlo). In addition, in the rest of the province there are endless tourist attractions.

The Way of Tea

The Camino del Té (or Ruta del Té) is a special event that takes place the second half of November in the province of Misiones, along National Route 14, between the towns of Cerro Azul, Leandro N. Alem, Oberá and Campo Viera. It is a Gourmet proposal that emerged from the Tea Club [2] in Argentina [3].

Yerba Mate Route

Another attraction is the Yerba Mate Route that joins the main attractions of the northeast of the province of Corrientes and the province of Misiones in the territories that were formerly occupied by the Jesuit Missions. Territory where the controlled cultivation of Yerba Mate began.

Official Song of the Province of Misiones: "Misionerita"

Media

Television

Central studios of LT85 TV Canal 12, in the city of Posadas.

Misiones owns a state air channel, Channel 12 (founded in 1972), which with its transmission plant in Posadas and repeaters in the cities of San Javier, Alba Posse, El Soberbio, Dos de Mayo, Eldorado, Irigoyen, San Antonio, Puerto Iguazú and Andresito; It has a scope that covers the province and border area of Brazil and Paraguay.

The city of Posadas also has three other private air channels: Canal 2, Misiones Cuatro and Canal 6, with limited coverage around the city. Of all the air channels, the one with the highest audience is the private channel Misiones Cuatro, which is broadcast by channel 8 on the Air signal and 11 on the Posadas cable service. There is also Channel 27 "Misiones Television" (TVM) that extends to the entire southern area of the province.

Spokes

The oldest radio station is LT17 Radio Provincia de Misiones (state-owned), which broadcasts on 620 kHz in AM, with a transmitting plant in Posadas and repeaters in Dos de Mayo and Bernardo de Irigoyen. The National University of Misiones manages the Universidad LRH301 FM station, which had its first transmission in June 1992 and is broadcast on FM through the 98.7 kHz signal.

Mission Radios

Newspapers

The first newspaper in the province came out on November 24, 1924 and was called Oredownik (the attorney, in Polish), published first in the town of Azara and then in Posadas; founded by the priest Marianski and continued by Juan Czajkowski until his disappearance in 1950. A year later, on June 2, 1925, the first issue of El Territorio, founded by Olmedo Sesostris, went on sale.

Currently, the newspapers with the largest circulation are El Territorio first, followed by Primera Edición, both published in the city of Posadas and covering the entire province of Misiones and northeast Corrientes, as well as the towns of Encarnación (Paraguay), Foz do Iguaçú (Brazil) and Ciudad del Este (Paraguay). Other newspapers are Pregón Misionero (Oberá), Misiones OnLine (printed version of the website), Seis Páginas and La Calle (both from Posadas).).

Digital newspapers

The main digital newspapers based in the province are: Noticiero 12 Digital Territory, First Web Edition, Channel 6 Digital, Missions Four, OnLine Missions, Capital Line, and Iguazú News.

Online channels

The Judicial Training and Management Center of Misiones has had an online channel called Justicia de Todos since 2011. In it, congresses, conferences, talks, courses are broadcast live and deferred. The channel also produces micros of information to the citizen, framed in the Project of Extension towards the Community where Officials of the Judicial Power and even of other institutions approach their rights to the citizen in a simple language as well as didactic.

Culture

Misiones has an official song that represents it, Misionerita. With lyrics and music by Lucas Braulio Areco, its stanzas highlight beauties such as its landscape.

Among the most prominent soccer clubs in Misiones are Guaraní Antonio Franco and Crucero del Norte, which have played in the Argentine First Division.

The province has two national-level racetracks, Posadas and Oberá, where Turismo Carretera, TC 2000, Top Race and Turismo Nacional have competed. From there came Carlos Okulovich, National Tourism champion pilot.

Twinnings

Krai of Stávropol, Russia (2000)

Ternopil Opblast, Ukraine (1995)

Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1992)