Expansion of the City of Resistencia. Its Metropolitan Process

摘要

The city of Resistencia since its inception has had a strategic location.Today it can be considered an intermediate city, in scale, population, etc services. It is also currently a conurbation and a metropolis that is formed by the unification of several municipalities in the beginning of its history were separated, as is the case in the cities of Fontana and Barranqueras. Today they live in this metropolitan area for approximately 40% of the total population of the province of Chaco. If the note along with the city of Corrientes, provincial capital and also an area that includes neighboring towns, we are talking about an urban center that is located at the intersection of bi-oceanic corridor and the north-south route of Mercosur. If we add the population of Corrientes and the Greater Metropolitan Area of the Great Resistencia, is it possible to speak of a metropolitan region of nearly one million inhabitants, which shows its importance and its strategic positioning in northeastern Argentina. The aim of this paper is to highlight the factors from history help us understand the reasons why this city became head of a metropolitan area and an important part of a metropolitan region.