Formosa Province

Formosa
Province
Coat airms
Kintra	Argentinae
Caipital	Formosa
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Gildo Insfrán
• Senators	María Teresa González Luis Petcoff Naidenoff José Mayans
Area
• Total	72066 km2 (27,825 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	530,162
• Rank	17t
• Density	7.4/km2 (19/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Formoseño
Time zone	UTC−3 (ART)
ISO 3166 code	AR-P
Website	formosa.gov.ar

Formosa Province (Spaingie pronunciation: [forˈmosa]) is a province in northeastren Argentinae, pairt o the Gran Chaco Region. Its northeast end touches Asunción, Paraguay, an borders the provinces o Chaco an Salta tae its sooth an wast, respectively. The caipital is Formosa.

It coincidentally is the antipode tae Taiwan, which wis umwhile kent as "Formosa" an aw.

Poleetical diveesion

The province is dividit intae nine depairtments:

City of Formosa

Yacaré alligator on the Pilcomayo River.

Depairtment (Caipital)

Departament	Ceety Heider	Ither Municipalities
Bermejo	Laguna Yema	Los Chiriguanos, Pozo de Maza, Pozo del Mortero
Formosa	Formosa	Colonia Pastoril, Gran Guardia, San Hilario, Mariano Boedo, Mojón de Fierro, Villa del Carmen, Villa Trinidad
Laishi	San Francisco de Laishi	Banco Payaguá, General Lucio V. Mansilla, Herradura, Tatané, Villa Escolar
Matacos	Ingeniero Juárez
Patiño	Comandante Fontana	Bartolomé de las Casas, Colonia Sarmiento, El Recreo, Estanislao del Campo, Fortín Leyes, Fortín Lugones, General Manuel Belgrano, Ibarreta, Juan G. Bazán, Las Lomitas, Posta Cambio Zalazar, Pozo del Tigre, San Martín, Subteniente Perín, Villa General Güemes
Pilagás	El Espinillo	Buena Vista, Misión Tacaaglé, Portón Negro, Tres Lagunas
Pilcomayo	Clorinda	Laguna Blanca, Laguna Naick Neck, Palma Sola, Puerto Pilcomayo, Riacho He-Hé, Riacho Negro, Siete Palmas
Pirané	Pirané	El Colorado, Mayor Vicente Villafañe, Palo Santo, Villa Dos Trece
Ramón Lista	General Mosconi	El Potrillo

Freemit airtins

• Provincial govrenment Archived 2000-12-06 at the Wayback Machine (Spaingie)