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Oberá
,where nature lives with the history and culture of
the immigrants.
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Oberá
"the shining one"
in the Guaraní language,
is situated in the south-central region of the Province of Misiones at
only 97 km. from the airport of Posadas (Capital City). It is part
of the tourist circuit "Sierras Centrales" (Central Hills) and
the Production Circuit which has as its final destination "El Moconá
". The access is through the national routes 12 and 14
and through the provincial route 103, wholly paved.
This is the place where nature lives with the history
and culture of the immigrants.
The tea and "Yerba
Mate" plantations are part of the typical landscape which together
with the Agrotouristic enterprises offer the visitor to enjoy the calm
of the farms .
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by natural beauties and historical spots, Oberá is a paradise in the Sierras
Centrales (Central Hills) of Misiones. Few places in the world offer so
many alternatives to experiment ecological , as well as cultural adventures
at the same time. Very near here the visitor can admire the varied scenes
where nature displays musical and Visual shows .Beautiful landscapes, roads
of red soil , jungle sites with waterfalls natural balconies and paths,
bathing places , giant and millenarian trees, tree-like ferns and nature
reserves, are , just a part of an infinite number of paradisiacal corners
within this magical world . Here aboriginal communities also share this
habitat with their customs and handicrafts ( which also can be bought). |
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is the Capital of the Central Hills Circuit with all the service and comfort
that the visitor needs. All of it transpires the native and European heredity
since it was chosen as the place to settle down by many colonies. The ethnic
groups (16), set an example of brotherhood and commitment when they organize
the Immigrant National Festival every first fortnight of September, event
representative of the Province of Misiones and one of the most important
in Argentina. |
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Immigrant
National Festival.
This is carried out by more than
16 communities which get together for a week in a hug of friendship to
show the rest of the country and to the world their traditions, typical foods, music, costumes, handicrafts and everything related
to their roots. It takes place in the Parque de Las Naciones ( Park of
the Nations), where each ethnic group has their typical house to display
their exhibits allowing the visitor to try their traditional foods and
drinks enjoying artistic shows to the best international standards.
More
information available at (Fiesta Nacional
del Inmigrante) :
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city de 70 thousand
inhabitants and more than a hundred religious temples. |
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The
collectivities, religions and ethnic groups who enrich to Oberá have a productive
coexistence. 0berá is Misiones’ capital of the religious and racial tolerance.
Here and in the neighboring colonies it has more than one hundred temples
of diverse confessions. The religiosity of its people sprouts
everywhere in the roads crossing their forests, their small farms and plantations
of yerba mate (typical South American infusion)
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30 kilometers of the border with Brazil and to 100 of Posadas (province
capital ), the immigratory currents created a melting pot of races, where
a different living form was created. During week of the Celebration of the
Immigrant, in that 19 collectivities participate, the store of the Jewish
collectivity is to only meters of the Arab house, in the Park of the Nations.
The aroma of the roasted lamb (laham meschue) and the flavor of kipe crude
(quebe naie) of the Arab kitchen are mixed with the traditions of the Hebrew
people. In the commune a registry of 33 different cults exists, including
the buddhism and the Judaism, who still do not have pagodas nor synagogues.
The Muslims, however, already began to gather support to construct a mosque.
The frieze of the colectivities, religions and ethnic groups who enrich
to the city of
Oberá has the seal of a productive coexistence. Here we can find
collectivity of Syrians, Lebanese, Japanese, Swedish, Ukranian, German,
Muslims, Poles, etc.
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postal of this city of 70 thousand inhabitants is also a testimony of that
diversity, because the images reproduce the gothic towers of the catholic
church of San Antonio and the enormous dome of 600 square meters covered
with gilded copper plates of the church of the Ukrainian
Byzantine rite, with their enormous bronze cupola that is distinguished
in the middle of the city, for a religious community integrated by 500 families.
Most of Ukrainian immigrants
live in small farms where they cultivate tea, yerba mate , tobacco,
vegetables, raises farm animals and plants pines for the cellulose industry.
The Swedish Lutherans were the first (before being founded
Oberá on 1928) in developing their cult. To a few blocks, the Russian
orthodox church of the Patriarchate of Moscow rises. In this city it amazes
that the peoples that in Europe have mistreated each other and until today
do not coexist, here they do it, something that gets the attention of the
present European visitors. The Jewish collectivity carries
out meetings between members for their central celebrations, taken
place in family houses to revive the oldest traditions. Each collectivity
maintains its origins and develop a natural coexistence, as it is the case
of the Swedish immigrants. The Lutheran Church was the first in arriving
to Oberá, with the Swedish people, who were
the first group of immigrants who arrived at
what was then called
Yerbal Vieja
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