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37 unusual facts about Paraguay


Afro-Paraguayans

As already mentioned, there are three communities of Afro - Paraguayan: the Kamba Cuá, in the Central Department (outside Asuncion), Kamba Kokue, meaning "chacra de negros" (farm of blacks) in Guarani language, and is situated in the Paraguarí Department, and Emboscada, in the Cordillera Department.

Alfredo Vega

Alfredo "Chacho" Vega (born February 2, 1935 in San Lorenzo, Paraguay - died February 14, 2012 in San Lorenzo, Paraguay) is a retired Paraguayan footballer who played for clubs of Paraguay, Brazil, Chile and Colombia.

Bermejo River

The Teuco follows its course to finality and into the Paraguay River, in front of the city of Pilar, in Paraguay.

Carlos Guirland

Carlos Alberto Guirland Báez (born 18 September 1961 in San Ignacio) is a retired football (soccer) midfielder from Paraguay.

Chaco Rally

Then they used an alternative route of Pozo Olga to Mision Santa Rosa, that is still used nowadays and from there went to Mariscal Estigarribia.

Cirilo R. Zayas

With all his knowledge he was also the editor chief in the magazine of the Police department of the capital and director of Culture of the Municipality in Encarnación, the Sub-Secretary of Information and Culture of the Republic’s Presidency and was also Vice-President of the Autores Paraguayos Asociados (APA), as well as chief of Public Relations of the Government Delegation of Alto Paraná.

Club Sol de América

The stadium Sol de America uses for most of its first division games is located in the suburb city of Villa Elisa.

Domingo Salcedo

José Domingo Salcedo González (born 9 November 1983 in Concepción) is a Paraguayan football midfielder currently playing for Cerro Porteño.

Enrique Gabriel Meza

Born in Villa Elisa, Meza has played club football in Paraguay, Uruguay and France for Sol de América, Nacional, Juventud, Dijon and Olimpia.

Félix Toranzos

"Espacios y construcciones", "De realismos y Surrealismos", Galería Arte-Sanos/ San Bernardino, Paraguay.

Geology of Paraguay

The Creataceous volcanism did also created minor outcrops of potassic alkaline volcanics in a graben structure developed between Asunción and Villarrica and in Amambay Department.

Germán Centurión

Germán Centurión (born 5 May 1980 in Concepción, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Independiente Santa Fe of the Primera División in Colombia.

Guillermo Beltrán

Guillermo Alexis Beltrán Paredes (born June 25, 1984 in San Juan Bautista, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer who has playing for Cerro Porteño.

Hugo Ovelar

Hugo Ovelar (born 21 February 1971 in Concepción, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer who playing for clubs in Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Bolivia and in the Paraguay national football team in the Copa América Bolivia 1997 and Paraguay 1999.

Jorge Daniel Florentín

Jorge Daniel Florentín (born December 08, 1982 in San Lorenzo, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Sportivo Carapeguá of the Primera División in Paraguay.

Jorge Guasch

Jorge Catalino Guasch Bazán (born 17 January 1961, in Itá, Paraguay) is a former football midfielder.

José Pedrozo

José Pedrozo (born 21 April 1982 in San Ignacio, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for San Marcos de Arica of the Primera B Chilena.

Jovita Feitosa

Antonia Alves ("Jovita") Feitosa (Tauá, Brazil, March 8, 1848 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 9, 1867 or Eusebio Ayala, Paraguay, August 16, 1869), was a military heroine and a symbol for the war against sexism.

Juan Zacarías Ramírez

Juan Zacarías Ramírez Candia (born 25 May 1965 in Encarnación, Paraguay) is a former football defender and coach.

Julia Isídrez

Isídrez was born on February 16, 1967, in Itá in the Central Department, a city that is also nicknamed the Capital of Ceramics.

Margaret Hebblethwaite

Since 2000 she has been a freelance missionary and educationalist in Santa María, Paraguay, pioneering and supporting community work in education.

Óscar Denis

Oscar Denis Sánchez (born 2 October 1946, in Concepción) is a Paraguayan politician and the current Vice President.

Paraguayan architecture

Among the few examples of works of the period is the council of the city of Pilar.

Posadas, Misiones

Father Roque González de Santa Cruz established a town called Anunciación de Itapúa on March 25, 1615, but ten years later the settlement was moved to the other side of the Paraná River to the present location of Encarnación, Paraguay.

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Posadas is the capital city of the Argentine province of Misiones, located at the south of the province, on the left-hand (eastern) shore of the Paraná River, opposite Encarnación, Paraguay.

Presbyterian Church in Paraguay

It has several mission efforts in Paraguay, the latest outreach is in the Presbyterian Church in Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay.

Ramón Cardozo

Ramón Idalecio Cardozo (born 23 April 1986 in Villarrica, Guairá) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays for Vitória F.C. on loan from Club Nacional as a forward.

Ricardo Sanabria

Ricardo Sanabria Acuña (born 31 October 1969 in San Lorenzo, Central) is a retired football (soccer) defender from Paraguay.

Roberto Cabañas

Roberto Cabañas González (born 11 April 1961 in Pilar, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan professional football player who played as a striker.

Rosa Brítez

Rosa Brítez is a popular Paraguayan artisan, born in Ita, city of the Central Department of Paraguay, on April 9, 1941.

Santa María, Paraguay

It's located 253 km south of Asuncion, the capital of the country, one arrives at Santa Maria, taking the National Route Number 1, and then taking a detour between the cities of San Ignacio and Santa Rosa.

Saturnino Arrúa

Born in Itá near Asunción, Arrúa made his senior debuts at only 14, with local Sportivo Iteño.

Tebicuary River

Located in the southwestern part of that country, it flows eastwards discharging to Paraguay River about 45 km south of Formosa and 30 km north of Pilar.

Transport in Paraguay

Asunción, long the country’s only modern port, Encarnación, and San Antonio serve as the country’s other major ports.

Víctor Ramón Ferreira

Víctor Ramón Ferreira Barrios (born 9 May 1986 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays for Real Garcilaso.

Vidal Sanabria

Carlos Vidal Sanabria Acuña (born 11 April 1966 in San Lorenzo, Paraguay) is a former football midfielder from Paraguay.

Zona Franca of Iquique

It has become an important center of trade in foreign countries in the region as Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru and Bolivia.


Adolfo Lazzarini

He then played in 1980 for LDU Quito and came back to Paraguay in 1982 to play for Cerro Porteño of Presidente Franco to put an end to his career.

Archives of Terror

The "Archives of Terror" (Archivos del Terror) were found on December 22, 1992, by lawyer and human-rights activist Dr. Martín Almada, and judge José Agustín Fernández, in a police station in a suburb of Asunción (Lambaré), capital of Paraguay.

Armel Koulara

An agile and sprightly goalkeeper in addition to being a penalty specialist, Armel is Gazelle's first choice penalty taker, following in the footsteps of other goal-scoring 'keepers such as Brazilian Rogério Ceni, Vincent Enyeama of Hapoel Tel Aviv and Nigeria, Hans-Jörg Butt of FC Bayern Munich and José Luis Chilavert, formerly of Paraguay.

Asunción Escalada National Highschool

In 2012 the institution was in charge of organizing the ESI-AMLAT science fair, which attracted young Scientists from around the world to Paraguay in order to share their knowledge in various branches of the science.

Ayvu Rapyta

Cadogan records the myths and religious tradition of the Mbyá Guaraní of the Guairá Department of Paraguay as told him by, among others, Cacique Pablo Vera.

Cerro Porteño

At the time of Cerro's foundation the situation in Paraguay was tense with instability in the government caused by the fervent rivalries between the two leading political parties, the Partido Colorado (Colorado Party) and the Partido Liberal (Liberal Party).

Chamacoco

According to the 2002 census the population yshyr in Paraguay that identified themselves as ysyr was 1571 people, mainly located in the district of Fuerte Olimpo in Paraguay, being the largest migrant group which is in the district Ygatimí (85 in 2002).

D. nanus

Dendropsophus nanus, a frog species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay

Derlis González

Derlis Alberto González Galeano (born 20 March 1994 in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Olimpia on loan from Benfica and the Paraguay national under-20 football team.

Eco Reserva Mbatoví

The Eco-reserva Mbatoví is a protected area and nature reserve located in the Paraguarí Department, Paraguay, in the middle of the Cordillera de los Altos, between Paraguarí and Piribebuy, in the Central Litoral.

Emilio Martínez

Emilio Damián Martínez (born 10 April 1981 in Concepción) is a Paraguayan footballer.

Enrique Jara Saguier

Enrique is one of the seven Jara Saguier brothers that played professional football in Paraguay.

Epapterus dispilurus

Epapterus dispilurus is a species of driftwood catfish distributed in the central and western parts of the Amazon River basin along and south of the main channel of the Amazon River, and Paraguay River basin in Paraguay, northern Argentina and southern Brazil.

Erminio Blotta

Dr. Lagleyze sent him to recover at a friend's house in Villeta, 30 km south of Asunción, Paraguay.

Felipe Peralta

He played professional football in Paraguay, and also had a spell in Colombia, playing for Deportivo Pereira.

Felipe Santiago Benítez Ávalos

Felipe Santiago Benítez Ávalos (May 1, 1926 – March 19, 2009) was the Paraguayan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Asunción from his appointment on May 20, 1989, until his retirement on June 12, 2002.

Football Federation of the 6th Department Caazapá

The Football Federation of the 6th Department Caazapá (Federación de Fútbol Sexto Departamento Caazapá) is the departamental governing body of football (soccer) in the department of Caazapá, in Paraguay.

General Francisco Álvarez

General Francisco Álvarez (also known as Puente Kyhá) is a town and district in the Canendiyú department of Paraguay.

Grupo Cartes

Grupo Cartes is a business conglomerate owned by Paraguay's president-elect Horacio Cartes.

Guaíra Falls

The falls comprised 18 cataracts clustered in seven groups—hence their Portuguese name, Sete Quedas (Seven Falls)—near the Brazilian municipality of Guaíra, Paraná and Salto de Guairá, the easternmost city in Paraguay.

Hérib Campos Cervera

Paraguayan poet Hérib Campos Cervera was born in Asunción, Paraguay, on March 30, 1905, son of Spanish parents, Herib Campos Cervera, also a poet, and of Alicia Diaz Perez, sister of the great intellectual Viriato Díaz Pérez.

Jonathan Santana

In June 2007, Santana received Paraguayan citizenship (his mother is a Paraguayan citizen born in San Ignacio, Misiones Department and Argentina did not recognize dual citizenship).

Jorge Luis Campos

Jorge Luis Campos Velázquez (born 11 August 1970 in Asunción) is a former Paraguayan footballer, who played as a midfielder or upfront.

José María De Filippi

José María De Filippi (born March 26, 1982 in Posadas, Argentina) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for 3 de Febrero of the Primera Division in Paraguay.

Julio Aguilar

Julio Ramón Aguilar Franco (born 1 July 1986 in La Pastora) is a Paraguayan footballer who currently plays for Club Sol de América.

Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre

The allies invaded Paraguay in April 1866, but after initial success, their advance was blocked by fortifications at Humaitá and along the Paraguay River.

Marco Lazaga

Marco Antonio Lazaga Dávalos, (born 26 February 1983 in Nanawa) is a football striker from Paraguay, who currently plays for Olimpia in the Paraguayan Primera División.

Michael Godoy

Michael Godoy (born 17 July 1983 in Caacupé, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Universidad de Concepción of the Primera División in Chile.

Miguel Ángel Benítez

Benítez left Espanyol in January 2002 to return to Paraguay, and signed for Asunción's Club Olimpia.

Misiones Province

The entire Misiones shores along the Paraná River is now confined by two dams, one of them Yaciretá, downstream of the river, and the other Itaipú, located in Brazil and Paraguay, upstream of the river and north of Puerto Iguazú.

Moisés Santiago Bertoni

Plant usual Paraguay: Alto Parana and Misiones; nomenclature, characters, properties applications according to research by the author, or data from credible persons or make use of them Indians, including a study of physical and industrial timber.

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Participates of the country's public life, and having conducted research for proper cultivation in Paraguay, was invited by the Paraguayan president, General Juan Bautista Egusquiza (1845–1902), to form an Agricultural Institute in Asunción.

Nelson David Cabrera

Nelson David Cabrera (born 22 April 1983 in Itauguá) is a Paraguayan football defender who last played for Club Bolivar in Bolivia.

Néstor Isasi

Néstor Isasi (born 9 April 1970 in Encarnación, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer who played in clubs of Paraguay, Brazil, Chile and Peru.

Nicolás Suárez Vaca

Suárez made his debut for the Bolivian national team on November 3, 1999 in a friendly match against Paraguay, as a substitute for Gonzalo Galindo.

Nyah

The communities were established in imitation of the New Australia settlement of William Lane in Paraguay.

Paraguay–United States relations

In September 2009 Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo revoked plans for US troops to hold joint military exercises and development projects after stating that he no longer thinks that hosting troops taking part in the US department of defence’s "New Horizons" programme was worthwhile.

Rafael Barrett

Rafael Barrett, complete name Rafael Ángel Jorge Julián Barrett y Álvarez de Toledo, (Torrelavega, Spain, January 7, 1876 – Arcachon, France, December 17, 1910) was a Spanish writer, narrator, essayist and journalist, who developed most of his literary production in Paraguay, becoming an important figure of the Paraguayan literature during the twentieth century.

Rafael dos Santos

Rafael dos Santos (Makanaki) (born October 8, 1983 in Salvador, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for 3 de Febrero of the Primera Division in Paraguay.

Rodrigo Sevillano

Rodrigo Ariel Sevillano Cabezas known as Rodrigo Sevillano and as Ariel Sevillano (born April 17, 1985 in Barbacoas (Nariño), Colombia) is a Colombian footballer currently playing for General Díaz of the Primera División in Paraguay.

San Bernardino, Paraguay

San Bernardino (commonly known as Samber) is a town and distrito in Paraguay, located on the shores of Ypacarai Lake in the Cordillera Department.

San Patricio, Paraguay

San Patricio is a town and district located in the Misiones department in Paraguay.

Schinopsis

The species within this genus inhabit different regions of the Gran Chaco ecoregion including parts of northern Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

T. aurea

Tabebuia aurea, a plant species native to South America in Suriname, Brazil, eastern Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay and northern Argentina

Thomas Jefferson Page

Following this, Lieutenant Page commanded the USS Water Witch in which he explored the Argentine rivers Paraguay and Bermejo in the late 1850s, making the first detailed hydrological studies of the Rio de la Plata.

William Lane

He died on 26 August 1917 in Auckland, New Zealand, having been editor of the Herald from 1913 to 1917, much admired, having lost one son Charles at a cricket match in Cosme in Paraguay, and another Donald on the first day of the ANZAC landings (25 April 1915) on the beaches of Gallipoli.