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San Nicolás de los Arroyos

San Nicolás de los Arroyos, is a city of 134 thousand1 located along the right bank of the Paraná,2 at the northern extreme of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. The city serves as a major grain port.3

Footnotes

1. 2009 figure in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Argentina_by_population, accessed April 30, 2016.
2. The Paraná flows into the Rio de la Plata, an estuarine bay.
3. The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.