Qualla: Gualeguaychú https://qualla.com/gualeguaychu-entre-rios en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/n/k/gualeguaychu-entre-rios-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Gualeguaychú https://qualla.com/gualeguaychu-entre-rios Gualeguaychú: Introduction https://qualla.com/gualeguaychu-entre-rios/ Photo credit StefaniaCarles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Say the name aloud and it almost dances: Gualeguaychú. The word comes from Guaraní, and the old interpretations range from 'big-water river' to the wonderfully specific 'river of the small pig caves,' the pig in question being the capybara. For most of the year this is a calm city of about 110,000 on a tributary of the Uruguay River in the Argentine province of Entre Ríos. Then summer arrives, and for ten Saturday nights the whole place turns into the loudest, brightest stage in the country.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/n/k/gualeguaychu-entre-rios-wp/6dnk-gualeguaych-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Gualeguaychú: The Carnival of the Country https://qualla.com/gualeguaychu-entre-rios/ Photo credit Belgrano, Public domain. Argentines call it the Carnaval del País, the Carnival of the Country, and they mean it as a claim. Running from January into early March, Gualeguaychú's Carnival is the largest open-air spectacle in Argentina, surpassed in all the Americas only by Rio de Janeiro. The heart of it...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/n/k/gualeguaychu-entre-rios-wp/6dnk-gualeguaych-the-carnival-of-the-country.mp3 0:06 2 full Gualeguaychú: Where the River Bends https://qualla.com/gualeguaychu-entre-rios/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. The Carnival could not exist without the city that hosts it, and the city exists because of the river. Gualeguaychú grew up on the left bank of the river that shares its name, a slow waterway that feeds the Uruguay. It sits in the heart of Argentine Mesopotamia, the green country...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/n/k/gualeguaychu-entre-rios-wp/6dnk-gualeguaych-where-the-river-bends.mp3 0:06 3 full Gualeguaychú: Hot Springs and Slow Days https://qualla.com/gualeguaychu-entre-rios/ Photo credit Ghu, CC BY-SA 3.0. When the floats are stored and the costumes packed away, Gualeguaychú settles into the easy pace of a resort town. It has beaches along the river, a casino, and thermal baths whose waters rise warm from deep underground; one complex offers pools heated to forty degrees Celsius, s...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/n/k/gualeguaychu-entre-rios-wp/6dnk-gualeguaych-hot-springs-and-slow-days.mp3 0:06 4 full Gualeguaychú: Deep Roots https://qualla.com/gualeguaychu-entre-rios/ Photo credit Lucianodegraf, CC BY-SA 4.0. Long before the floats and the grandstands, this land belonged to the Chaná and Charrúa peoples, who lived along these rivers for generations. The arrival of Spanish settlers in the 17th and 18th centuries brought conflict, displacement, and campaigns that devastated the indigeno...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/n/k/gualeguaychu-entre-rios-wp/6dnk-gualeguaych-deep-roots.mp3 0:06 5 full Gualeguaychú: Stone and Spire https://qualla.com/gualeguaychu-entre-rios/ Photo credit Preyes, CC BY-SA 4.0. For a provincial city, Gualeguaychú built handsomely. Its cathedral, dedicated to Saint Joseph, was begun in 1863 at a cornerstone ceremony attended by the great Entre Ríos caudillo Justo José de Urquiza and designed by the Swiss architect Bernardo Poncini; the work dragged on un...

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