Map of the city of Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Map of the city of Paraná, province of Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Paraná is the capital city of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It is located to the west of the province, east of the Paraná River - shortly before it receives the Río Salado. Administratively it is a municipality head of the Paraná department. Since 2009 there is a zoning of the city, through four relatively autonomous units.
It has 137 km² and a population of 247 863 inhabitants, according to final data from the 2010 census, being the most populated city in the province and the fourteenth nationwide. In addition, it is the main component of the agglomerate called Gran Paraná. Together with the Gran Santa Fe they make up an urban area of more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, linked by the Raúl Uranga-Carlos Sylvestre Begnis subfluvial tunnel.
