Monumento del Bicentenario, Victoria (ER) Traditional Geocache
GeoCrater: I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no word from the owner in the month or more since the last reviewer note was posted.
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Monumento del Bicentenario, Victoria (ER)
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Victoria is a city in the southwest of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It is located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, opposite Rosario, Santa Fe, to which it is connected since 2003 by the Rosario-Victoria Bridge.
The site of a 1750 defeat of a native uprising and an 1810 oratory to the Virgin of Aranzazú, a Marian apparition and the city's patron saint, Cerro La Matanza was granted village status by the Provincial Legislature, in 1826. An 1829 edict renamed the hamlet Victoria. The church (started in 1872) is dedicated to this patron. Designated a "city" in 1851, Victoria also features an abbey (Abadía Los Monjes del Niño Dios), founded by Benedictine monks who arrived in 1899.
The Victoria region is at the core of the fishing industry of commercially important species like sábalo (Prochilodus lineatus) and surubí (Pseudoplatystoma spp.); it produces 95% of the annual 27,000 tonnes of sábalo captured in the province. Concerns about over-exploitation of this resource has been raised lately.
The city has a beach resort, and the river at this point is appropriate for the practice of sports such as kayak sailing and windsurf. The municipality claims jurisdiction over 3,700 km² of islands and islets on the Paraná. Several fishing areas are reserved for sports purposes, while others are protected.
Every year Victoria hosts an extended Carnival Season; in 2005, for example, parades and dances were held on weekends from January to the beginning of March.
Victoria has seen increased touristic affluence since the opening of the connection with Rosario and the Greater Rosario area. A year later, the high-class Casino was opened on the river front, and being one of the biggest in the country, it has bought in much wealth for Victoria's tourism industry attracting gamblers on a national scale.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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The cache is a little Tupperware container and holds a logbook with some information about GeoCaching in Spanish. There is no pen, so please make sure to bring your own!
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Ba gur tebhaq oruvaq gur jnyy