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National Immigrant's Festivity. During September's first
fortnight Oberá City in Misiones Province is prepared to
celebrate it. It is a social and cultural event that gathers
14 communities that show their traditions and culture through
clothes, dances, and typical food.
Everything is ready now to celebrate it. It takes, place
at the "Parque de las Naciones" in Oberá City in Misiones
Province, Fernando de la Rúa, the Nation's President will
be waited there.
 The
event congregates about 150 thousand people. The foreign
communities are: the Italian, Arabic, German, Pole, Swiss,
Brazilian, Ukrainian, Nordic (that gathers to Swedish, Finnish,
Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic), Paraguayans, Spaniards,
Russian, French, Japanese and Peruvian, besides other ethnoses
such as Laotians and Yugoslavian. They offer lectures and
celebrations along the whole year to commemorate their native
days and other important dates.
At the same time, there will be an Immigrant's Handcrafting
Fair, located in a special place within the same park. A
lot of very well known artists and singers such as: Divididos,
Chango Spasiuk, Ráfaga, the Peruvian guitarist Jorge Luis
Zamora together with Cacho Tirao, the humorist Carlos Sánchez
and the regional artist Julián Zini will be there. The celebration
will be transmitted by Channel 7 from Argentina.
 There
will be official delegates from several provinces, such
as San Juan, and La Pampa. At night, the theater play "La
Tierra Prometida" will be performed. The Queen's night is
a very important and peculiar one. Each one of the girls,
must have their last name maternal or paternal related to
the community they represent. That night, they exhibit luxurious
typical clothes and they dance too. The visit of other important
queens from other national festivities is expected. They
are the Snow's Queen, the Sea's Queen, the Cotton's Queen,
the Vintage's Queen, etc.
On the other hand, during the festival days the visitors
can enjoy the "Expo Monte", it is an exhibition carried
out by the "Batallón de Infanteria XII" belonging to the
Argentinean Army, there is also an amusement park, and an
exhibition of bromelias and orchids, with exhibitors from
Brazil and Paraguay.
There are also sports activities. This year, the "Maratón
del Inmigrante nº 17", will be carried out. It goes along
10 Km, and there are athletes from the whole region. In
the same way, the "Grandes Juegos de los Inmigrantes" will
be done. The whole communities will take part in them.
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Love to the land and to the customs
 Oberá
- "the one that shines", in Guarani language - is a big
city, since it is the second important one of the province,
and it is strategically located in the south center area.
The native inheritance and the one left by the different
migratory currents can be seen there.
Today, more than 15 communities cohabit there, keeping
the culture and traditions from their predecessors, and
as an example of friendship they gather every year to celebrate
this festivity. The best way to know Oberá is to walk along
its streets, full of squares. There are more than 150 industrial
establishments, especially those dedicated to herb production,
tea and wood. Oberá and the Sierras Centrales are a good
proposal for tourism. There are more than 50 tourist places
with a wide communication net, hotels, and first level gastronomy.
They guarantee a surprising trip.
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 How
to arrive in Oberá
You can arrive in Oberá, going along the national route
nº 12 to Posadas, Misiones' Capital City. To 38 Km from
there, along the same highway and going towards Puerto Iguazú
city, you arrive at Santa Ana town, where there is a crossing
of routes, the National Route nº 12 to and the provincial
route nº 103, that joins this town with Oberá. There are
50 Km distance between both cities. On other road is the
National Route nº 14. When you arrive in Misiones Province,
there is an important crossing with the Provincial Route
nº 1 going along the National Route till Oberá, there are
70 Km distance, passing along Cerro Azul and Leandro N Alem
towns.
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