Azara

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Azara (Misiones)

Azara (Misiones) is a village and municipality in Misiones Province in north-eastern Argentina. It is considered an agricultural colony, having about 230 km² (23,000 ha). The municipality is located in the Apóstoles department, bordered by the municipalities of Apóstoles and Tres Capones in the same department, by the Sierra de Concepción in the Concepción Department and by the province of Corrientes.

Population

The municipality has a population of 3,484 inhabitants according to the 2001 census (INDEC).

Toponym

Azara was named after the famous Spanish naturalist, geographer and sailor, Felix de Azara, born in 1754, who, as lieutenant of the Marquis de Avilés and Viceroy of Rio de La Plata, visited and studied the Argentine and Paraguay Mesopotamic regions between 1781 and 1801, fifteen years after the expulsion of the Jesuits.

Geographical characteristics

Azara is considered an agricultural colony, having about 230 km² (23,000 ha). It is located in a field and has no rainforest. There are forests "gallery" on the banks of rivers and streams and some hillocks which in Portuguese are often called capones, they are low, not very extensive, groves.

Azara (plant)

Azara is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to temperate to subtropical regions of South America. They are most often found at woodland margins and lakesides.Azara was formerly classed in the family Flacourtiaceae.

They are evergreen shrubs and small trees growing to 1-8 m tall. The leaves are alternate, or in some species they appear paired, are simple 1-9 cm long and 0.5-5 cm broad. The opposite-leaved appearance of some species is unusual in that one stipule is enlarged giving the appearance of opposite ["paired"] leaves. The flowers are small, yellow or greenish, strongly fragrant, with a 4-5-lobed calyx and no petals but conspicuous long, often brightly colored, stamens; flowering is in spring. The fruit is a red to black berry 3-10 mm diameter.

Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants in gardens. In temperate regions they require the shelter of a wall.

List of species