Entre Rios

Entre Rios ('between rivers'), a province of the Argentine Republic, in the 'Mesopotamia Argentina,' between the Paraná and the Uruguay (whence its name). Estimated area, 29,021 sq. m., or a little larger than Portugal; pop. (1895) 302,000. The country is chiefly pastoral, but an increasing proportion is being put under cultivation, some 300,000 acres being now devoted to maize and wheat. The province is fertile and well watered, being even subject, in the south, to annual floods; nevertheless, the climate is very healthy. Lime and gypsum are worked. The province has about 500 miles of railway. The capital is Paraná (q.v.).