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Climate services through the co-production of knowledge (http://www.climax-sa.org/) is a South American European initiative that aims to strengthen the social response capacity before these events to agricultural production in northeast Argentina (NA). Since 2016, an interdisciplinary and intersectoral dialogic process has been carried out in the Bermejo Department, in the Gran Chaco wetland region at NA, through the methodology of knowledge co-production. This includes the scientific community from climatic and anthropological sciences, small farmers, teachers and students of a high school in rural areas, and agents of state agricultural institutions, among others. In this process, the knowledge of all the actors involved is brought into play to co-produce relevant and useful climate products. The project carries out different co-production cycles. One of these cycles consists of creating and developing a local hydrological monitoring network for interested social actors. The overflow of the local rivers that cross this wetland area can affect accessibility by flooding roads, deteriorating houses, rotting crops, and leaving livestock without food. Likewise, droughts generate a lack of water for the population and livestock consumption and for irrigating crops. So the community considers this information of great importance. Hydrometric rules are built and installed along the rivers with the most significant influence on daily activities. In addition, the actors discuss the monitoring strategy and the information dissemination to the local community. This information is part of the tools the community finds for making the most appropriate decisions based on the impacts of climatic events.