Gualeguaychú is the homonymous Department head city, situated in the southeast angle of the province from among Rivers.
The fundamental base of the economy was the agribusiness and at present the most dynamic sectors constitute it the tourist sector and the industrial activity, fundamentally of in the areas of chemical food products.
In which concerns al TOURISM exists a seasonal demand (summer) of a high tourist affluence, with a movement of people that reaches the 400.000, fundamentally of Federal Capital and Province of Buenos Aires, being noted ultimately a great increment of tourists originating from the provinces of Holy Faith and Cordoba, attracted by the Carnival of the Country and the beaches of the city.
The offering of tourist services is composed of 22 hotels one of diverse categories) adding a total of 1.300 plazas, and is complemented with 33 complexes of bungalows with a capacity of approximately 2.500 plazas and with 17 campings with a total capacity of approximately 5.500 plots. In our city will find the most various gastronomy, to satisfy to all the inclinations.
The new Terminal of Ómnibus is found located in the extreme South-West of the Urban plant, to the edge of the South Access. The passengers transportation services are numerous and of very good quality, and they permit a communication flowed and quickly with the different points of the country and of the outside.
The Department Gualeguaychú is one of the most populated. Its 100.995 inhabitants represent a 8% of the population entrerriana, with a density close to the provincial average.
Gualeguaychú counts on an attractive landscape litoraleño, where its main resource is the river. The city possesses green spaces that satisfy the needs of the same one inside the limits of the Urban Plant and also to regional scale, to know:
a) Park Unzué and Road of the Coast, to regional and urban scale.
B) South and North Spas, you united by the Walk of the Coastal one.
C) Plazas, you insert inside the urban plot.
D) Plazas bogs.
All they are habililtados al public use, with extensive demand during all the year, especially during the summer season.
The Park Unzúe, summoned to court on the Western margin of the river, has an extension of 115 you have; al that is agreed through Bridge Méndez Casariego. Counts on a leafy and various vegetation, with clubs and campings and, in the bank, with yacht clubs.
The Park of the Station (7,50 hectares), is integrated al plan of investments, of the one that also they form splits the North Park (100 you have) and the South Park (7,30 have), with a program of harmonious requests to its court summons, surface and needs.
To regional scale, on the coast of the river Uruguay, the pavimentación of the axis of access al Spa Ñandubaysal and Port Mouth, distant 15 Km of the city, there is dinamizado the area due to the possibilities of investment in tourist equipment to different scales and al increase of the assembly to the zone balnearia.
Gualeguaychú counts on areas that gather historic characteristics that do al patrimony inherited since the development and height of the city. The linking, inside the urban system, of the green spaces, the beaches and the center of the city constitute a strong resource of tourist interest. For example: the Plaza San Martin, the Plaza Urquiza and their binding axis, nuclea the main official agencies of the city, being situated also buildings of hereditary interest.