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 Damián Mendoza Sulewski (born 12 December 1963 in Encarnación) is a retired football striker from Paraguay.
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.
The Teuco follows its course to finality and into the Paraguay River, in front of the city of Pilar, in Paraguay.
Carlos Alberto Guirland Báez (born 18 September 1961 in San Ignacio) is a retired football (soccer) midfielder from Paraguay.
Celso Duarte (born June 1974, in Villarrica, Paraguay) is a virtuoso of Paraguayan harp and Mexican jarocho harp, arranger, singer, and multi-talented instrumentalist.
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.
The stadium Sol de America uses for most of its first division games is located in the suburb city of Villa Elisa.
David Portillo (born 24 November 1984 in San Juan Bautista, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Deportes Antofagasta of the Primera División in Chile.
Mario Edison Giménez (born 5 April 1981 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a Paraguayan footballer that currently plays for Colombian Primera A side Itagüí as striker.
Elvis Israel Marecos (born 15 February 1980 in Itá) is a football left defender from Paraguay, who is currently playing for Club Guaraní in his native country.
Finally, through centuries people from neighboring countries like Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru immigrated to Argentina, establishing important communities.
Guillermo Alexis Beltrán Paredes (born June 25, 1984 in San Juan Bautista, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer who has playing for Cerro Porteño.
"Paraguayan Plastic Art in Hispanic Heritage Week" at the Institute of Hispanic Culture of Guaira Villarrica.
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 Catalino Guasch Bazán (born 17 January 1961, in Itá, Paraguay) is a former football midfielder.
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 Gualberto Casco Bogarín (born 12 July 1945 in Encarnación) is a retired Paraguayan football player who played for Elche CF and Real Murcia.
Juan Eulogio Estigarribia is a city in the country of Paraguay.
Juan Rodrigo Rojas Ovelar (born 9 April 1988 in Fernando de la Mora) is a Paraguayan football midfielder, who plays for Universidad de Chile of the Chilean Primera División.
Juan Zacarías Ramírez Candia (born 25 May 1965 in Encarnación, Paraguay) is a former football defender and coach.
Isídrez was born on February 16, 1967, in Itá in the Central Department, a city that is also nicknamed the Capital of Ceramics.
Since 2000 she has been a freelance missionary and educationalist in Santa María, Paraguay, pioneering and supporting community work in education.
Oscar Denis Sánchez (born 2 October 1946, in Concepción) is a Paraguayan politician and the current Vice President.
Among the few examples of works of the period is the council of the city of Pilar.
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.
It has several mission efforts in Paraguay, the latest outreach is in the Presbyterian Church in Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay.
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.
Rosa Brítez is a popular Paraguayan artisan, born in Ita, city of the Central Department of Paraguay, on April 9, 1941.
Since assuming his role in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, he decided not to be a priest in the town of Villarrica, but to work among the poor of the parish of Buena Vista, where he was for many years.
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.
Asunción, long the country’s only modern port, Encarnación, and San Antonio serve as the country’s other major ports.
Víctor Hugo Ayala Núñez (born 1 January 1988 in Eusebio Ayala) is a Paraguayan football midfielder who currently plays for Club Atlético Lanús.
Víctor Ramón Ferreira Barrios (born 9 May 1986 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays for Real Garcilaso.
Victoriano Leguizamón (born 1922 in Concepción – 7 April 2007) is a former football midfielder and coach from Paraguay.
Carlos Vidal Sanabria Acuña (born 11 April 1966 in San Lorenzo, Paraguay) is a former football midfielder from Paraguay.
It has become an important center of trade in foreign countries in the region as Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru and Bolivia.
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Pedro Juan Caballero, the capital of the department, is still known by its old name, Punta Porá, used by the traveling merchants that transported yerba from Mato Grosso to Concepción.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Carlos Bonet Cáceres (born 2 October 1977 in Asunción) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a right winger for Cerro Porteño in the Paraguayan Primera División.
Cayetano Ré Ramírez (7 February 1938 – 26 November 2013) was a Paraguayan footballer striker and coach who was born in Asunción.
He investigated about the Ypacaraí Lake, its legends and history; about Domingo Martínez de Irala and about little known facts of the Jesuit Missions in the Paraguay.
Dendropsophus nanus, a frog species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay
Danilo Vicente Aceval Maldonado (born 15 September 1975 in Arroyo, Paraguay) is a retired Paraguayan football goalkeeper.
Edgar Gabriel Balbuena Adorno or, simply, Edgar Balbuena (born 20 November 1980 in Capiatá) is a Paraguayan footballer.
Eligio Silvestre Echagüe Delgado (born 31 December 1938 in Concepción, Paraguay) is a former football defender; most commonly playing in the left-back position.
Emilio Bigi was born in Asunción, Paraguay, on July 1, 1910, son of Elisa Bigi, from the Italian collectivity in this country.
Enrique is one of the seven Jara Saguier brothers that played professional football in Paraguay.
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.
Dr. Lagleyze sent him to recover at a friend's house in Villeta, 30 km south of Asunción, Paraguay.
Evanílson gained 13 caps for Brazil in one year, playing in two games at the 1999 Copa América as Cafu's backup, with the national team winning the tournament in Paraguay.
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.
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 (also known as Puente Kyhá) is a town and district in the Canendiyú department of Paraguay.
Grupo Cartes is a business conglomerate owned by Paraguay's president-elect Horacio Cartes.
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.
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.
The two later had a violent death: shortly after being elected president of Paraguay on August 15, 1939, Estigarribia died alongside his wife on September 7, 1940 in a plane crash in Loma Grande.
Jorge Amado Nunes Infrán (born 18 October 1961 in Berazategui, Argentina) is a former Paraguayan football midfielder that currently works as a coach.
Jorge Constantino Gaona Aranda, more commonly known as Jorge Gaona (born 26 January 1985 in Asunción), is a Paraguayan football midfielder.
Juan Benítez Galeano (born 23 June 1953 in Itacurubí, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer currently played for clubs of Paraguay, Chile, Ecuador and Spain.
Juan de Salazar y Espinosa (1508–1560) was a Spanish explorer, founder of the Paraguayan city of Asunción.
Julio Ramón Aguilar Franco (born 1 July 1986 in La Pastora) is a Paraguayan footballer who currently plays for Club Sol de América.
Figueroa has also played friendlies during the 2006 and he scored his first goal for Chile against Paraguay (3–2 victory).
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.
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 Rafael Cuevas Amarilla (born 10 January 1980 in Asunción, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan former footballer and current singer.
Nelson David Cabrera (born 22 April 1983 in Itauguá) is a Paraguayan football defender who last played for Club Bolivar in Bolivia.
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.
Nueva Colombia is a distrito in the Cordillera Department of Paraguay, located on the road between Emboscada and San Bernardino.
Paulo Roberto Curtis Costa (born January 27, 1963 in Viamão, Brazil) is a former Brazilian professional footballer who played for clubs in Brazil and Paraguay.
Pereskia sacharosa The Gran Chaco including Mato Grosso region (Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay), and lowlands of the Andes in northwestern Argentina at elevations of 1000–2500 m.
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.
Riechia is a genus of moths within the family Castniidae containing only one species, Riechia acraeoides, which is found in Peru, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.
San Bernardino (commonly known as Samber) is a town and distrito in Paraguay, located on the shores of Ypacarai Lake in the Cordillera Department.
The park is also the only place in Paraguay where there have been sightings of the “morena” eagle or “harpía”, maracaná, red and blue parrot, yacutinga, yellow toucan and golden woodpecker, among others.
The species within this genus inhabit different regions of the Gran Chaco ecoregion including parts of northern Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
Schinopsis lorentzii is a hardwood tree, native of the Paraguayan subtropical area, which forms forests in Gran Chaco region of Argentina, in Paraguay, and Bolivia.
The Scientific Monument Moises Bertoni is located in the District of Presidente Franco, Department of Alto Paraná, Paraguay riverside Paraná between 25 ° 39 'south latitude, 54 west eighth 36'longitud, approximately 26 km of the city of Presidente Franco and was recognized on April 13, 1955, has an area of 199 hectares.
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.
He played the second leg of the 1979 Intercontinental Cup final (played in March 1980), which ended in defeat to Paraguayan club Club Olimpia.
Tomás Guzmán fullname Tomás Andrés Guzmán Gaetan (born 7 March 1982 in Asunción) is a Paraguayan football striker who plays for Olimpia in the Primera División Paraguaya.
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.