Resistencia is the capital and largest city of the province of Chaco, in northeastern Argentina. At the 2010 census, the population of the city proper was 291,720 inhabitants. It is the anchor of a rather larger metropolitan area, Greater Resistencia, which comprises three more municipalities for a total population of 387,340 as of 2010. This conurbation is the largest in the province, and the eleventh most populous in the country. It is sited along the Negro River, a tributary of the much larger Paraná river, opposite the city of Corrientes, Corrientes Province.