|a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a
camera lens from excess light or glare.| |a scrap or morsel of
food left at a meal.| provincia (province), northeastern
Argentina, bounded by the Parana River (north and west), which
forms the border with Paraguay (north), and by the Uruguay River
(southeast), which borders Uruguay and Brazil. Its area of
34,054 sq mi (88,199 sq km) forms part of a region known as the
Argentine Mesopotamia. Corrientes is a low-lying subtropical
province of plains, channels, lakes, and marshes ascending to
slightly higher elevations in the east. A dominating feature is
the expansive Esteros (marshes) del Ibera in the north centre
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