Resistencia

Resistencia , city (1991 pop. 291,083), capital of Chaco prov., NE Argentina. It is the nucleus of an area of frontier settlements extending into the sparsely inhabited northwest. The city carries on a lively trade from its port, Barranqueras, on the Paraná River. Cotton, cattle, lumber, quebracho (for tannin extraction), and sugarcane are the city's chief products; the economy of the surrounding region is based on farming and cattle raising. Resistencia was originally the site of an 18th-century Jesuit mission and native settlement. In 1876 during the wars against the indigenous people, the name Resistencia was officially adopted, and the city became an important military outpost. It is connected to Corrientes by a bridge.

Resistencia, Argentina San Fernando del Río Negro Founded in the mid‐18th century on the site of an old Quechua village as a Jesuit mission, it was given its present name in 1878 when it was re‐established as a military outpost following the Argentine–Paraguay War (1864–70). Apparently the name refers to a local way of hunting whereby the hunters encircle their prey and then advance towards it.