Radio Fiesta Clorinda

Radio Fiesta Clorinda is the party station of Clorinda, the second city of Formosa province, an Argentine border town on the Pilcomayo river, just four kilometres - one bridge - from the Paraguayan capital Asuncion, with nearly a hundred thousand people on the Argentine side. Border radio in the most literal sense.

The music fits the frontier, around the clock: cumbia, rock and reggae, Argentine hits beside Paraguayan favourites, for a bilingual audience that crosses the river daily - the Pilcomayo here is crossed as easily as a street, and the sound of the market and the bus terminal needs a soundtrack. In Clorinda, a radio does not choose a country - it plays for both.

The station streams online for the many who cross - and for the diaspora as much as for the neighbourhood - with the socials keeping the greeting trade alive, and the directories list it among the stations of Formosa. Fiesta by name, fiesta by format: a border town's permanent party.