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Where to Stay in Posadas, Misiones Province
Posadas is the capital of Misiones in northeastern Argentina, a river city on the Paraná in the red-earth land of yerba mate and the old Jesuit missions.
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Where to stay in Posadas
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Where you stay in Posadas turns on the riverfront or the town. The streets by the Costanera keep the promenade, the beaches, and the plaza within a walk, and staying by the river suits anyone here for the city. The Paraná runs past the walk.
Red streets climb from the water. Out toward the missions and the red-earth country, the province opens into jungle and ruins. A room out of town trades the river for the mission ruins, the mate farms, and the road on to Iguazú.
Green jungle covers the hills. Stay by the river for the promenade, or inland for the ruins. The Paraná lies a short way down.
About Posadas
Posadas is the river capital of Misiones.
What is Posadas known for?
On the high bank of the Paraná across from Paraguay, it is the capital of the red-earth province of the yerba mate and the ruined Jesuit missions, and it keeps a long riverfront promenade, the memory of the Guaraní hero Andresito, the mate and tea trade of the country around, and the road to the great mission ruins of San Ignacio. The wide Paraná runs below. Red earth lines the roads.
What are the main landmarks in Posadas?
The riverfront promenade is the heart of Posadas. The long green Costanera along the Paraná, looking across the water to Paraguay, runs by the city, the emblem of the town, above the river. Old mission ruins lie inland.
The great red ruins of San Ignacio stand in the jungle to the east, while the cathedral, the regional museums, and the mate markets mark the streets of Posadas.
What is the history of Posadas?
This land was won and lost by the Jesuits. In the seventeenth century Jesuit priests and Guaraní people built a chain of mission towns across Misiones, raising great churches of red stone in the jungle, until the order was expelled and the missions fell to ruin. The missions rose and fell.
Their broken red walls still stand at San Ignacio and across the province, among the finest ruins of the land. Posadas grew later on the river. A town rose on the high bank of the Paraná as a port and a border post facing Paraguay, and it became the capital of Misiones and the market of the mate country.
Red earth made it rich. The tea and yerba mate of the red hills passed through Posadas to the rest of Argentina, and the city grew along its river with a long green promenade. The Paraná still runs past the town.
Posadas keeps its river and its red earth on the edge of Misiones.
Where is Posadas?
Posadas lies in the far northeast of Argentina, on the Paraná river facing Paraguay. The city stands on red hills above the wide river, in the subtropical land of Misiones between the Paraná and the Uruguay, with the green jungle and the red earth stretching north to Iguazú. Red hills roll to the horizon.
The great river runs west below.
What is the climate of Posadas?
Warm, humid subtropical weather holds over Posadas. Hot summers and mild winters cross the red-earth country, with heavy rain through the year off the rivers, keeping the jungle green and lush. The heat hangs damp over the river.
Storms roll in off the water.
How do you get to Posadas?
Posadas lies in far northeastern Argentina, at the end of the road up the Paraná. Buses and flights link it to Buenos Aires far to the south, and a bridge crosses the river to Paraguay. Roads run north to the missions and Iguazú.
Buenos Aires lies far downriver.
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Updated August 2026