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Natalio

Natalio is about 45 km off Route PY06 and sits on a plateau, the highest in its terrain, which extends from south to north for about 25 km. Its soil is considered the most fertile in the department, within the strip of land of the Alto Paraná basin. The origin of the name is not entirely clear, but the most likely version links it to the "mensú era" (around 1930), when an indigenous lieutenant from Corrientes named Natalio, foreman for an Argentine landowner, lived at the port that bears his name and managed the carts that carried logs and the staff cutting down the Atlantic forest of the Alto Paraná. It became a district in 1974 under the name Domingo Robledo and recovered its name in 1989. Today it has about 14,900 inhabitants (2022 census). The origin of the name is not entirely clear: according to Wikipedia, the most likely version links it to Natalio, a Correntino indigenous foreman who worked for an Argentine landowner and lived at the port that bears his name.