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Aguas Corrientes is a small town in the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay.Its name (running waters) is derived from the installations of pumping, filtration and purification of water from the Santa Lucia River, which is the largest in the country, supplying drinking water to the departments of Montevideo and Canelones.
The Palace of Running Waters ( Spanish: Palacio de Aguas Corrientes) is an architecturally significant water pumping station in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the former headquarters of state-owned company Obras Sanitarias de la Nación. It is currently administered by Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos (AySA). The building, designed and complete in ...
Municipality of Aguas Corrientes. Location of the municipality of Aguas Corrientes within the department of Canelones and Uruguay. / -34.5; -56.4. The municipality of Aguas Corrientes is one of the municipalities of Canelones Department, Uruguay, established on 15 March 2010. Its seat is the city of Aguas Corrientes .
Corrientes ( Spanish pronunciation: [koˈrjentes] ⓘ; Guaraní: Taragüí, literally: "Currents") is the capital city of the province of Corrientes, Argentina, located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, about 1,000 km (621 mi) from Buenos Aires and 300 km (186 mi) from Posadas, on National Route 12. It has a population of 346,334 ...
OSE is the company in charge of supplying drinking water nationwide, annually producing more than 350 million m³ of drinking water, which is distributed through 15,000 km of networks throughout the country. To do this, it has 71 plants that make water drinkable, the most important of which is the Aguas Corrientes Plant, located in Canelones ...
Argentine Water and Sanitation ( Spanish: Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos, mostly known for its acronym AySA) is a state-owned company of Argentina dedicated to supplying the public with running water and sewer services. Created in 2006 after the Government of Argentina rescinded the contract with "Aguas Argentinas", a corporate group that had ...
The Obelisco de Buenos Aires (Obelisk of Buenos Aires) is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires. Located in the Plaza de la República in the intersection of avenues Corrientes and 9 de Julio , it was erected in 1936 to commemorate the quadricentennial of the first foundation of the city .
History. Before the arrival of the Spanish conquest, the Kaingang, Charrua and Guaraní lived in a big area that also covered most of the current province of Corrientes. The city of Corrientes was founded on April 3, 1588 by Juan Torres de Vera y Aragón as a mid-stop between Asunción and Buenos Aires; the city flourished thanks to the traffic from the route.