Barranqueras


Barranqueras is a city in the southeast of the province of Chaco, Argentina, on a small tributary river on the right-hand-side shore of the Paraná River, only 7 km from the provincial capital Resistencia and within its metropolitan area. It has over 50,000 inhabitants according to the, being the third most populated city in the province.
Barranqueras is located in a commercial node of the Mercosur, and has a port on Kilometer 1,198 of the Paraná, managed by the provincial state since 1991.
Alicia Azula was elected Mayor of Barranqueras in 2003 and she was re-elected twice more.