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Asunción. The Mother of Cities, The World's Capital of Friendship. Asunción (English: / ɑːˌsuːnsiˈoʊn, ˌɑːsuːnˈsjoʊn /, [3][4][5] Spanish: [asunˈsjon]) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River.
Paraguay (/ ˈpærəɡwaɪ /; Spanish pronunciation: [paɾaˈɣwaj] ⓘ), officially the Republic of Paraguay (Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guarani: Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.
Geography of Paraguay. Paraguay is a country in South America, bordering Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. The Paraguay River (Spanish: Río Paraguay) divides the country into strikingly different eastern and western regions. Both the eastern region (officially called Eastern Paraguay, Paraguay Oriental, and known as the Paraneña region) and the ...
Main article: Spanish colonization of the Americas. Much of the earliest written history of Paraguay comes from records of the Spanish colonization, beginning in 1516 with the Juan Díaz de Solís ' failed expedition to the Río de la Plata. On the home voyage, after Solís' death, one of the vessels was wrecked off Santa Catarina Island near ...
Capital cities of the departments are listed in bold text. All census totals come from the Department of Statistics, Surveys and Censuses (Paraguay) [1] Map of Paraguay An enlargeable map of the Republic of Paraguay Map of Paraguay indicating the origin of the founders of the different districts in the country by colour.
e. Paraguay consists of 17 departments (Spanish: departamentos; singular – departamento) and one capital district (distrito capital). The country is divided into two non-official regions: The "Occidental Region" or Chaco (Boquerón, Alto Paraguay and Presidente Hayes), and the "Oriental Region" or Parana (other departments and the capital ...
Salto del Guairá; San Alberto; San Bernardino; San Cosme y Damián; San Estanislao; San Ignacio; San José de los Arroyos; San Juan Bautista de Ñeembucú
Spanish conquistadores arrived in 1524, and in 1537 established the city of Asunción, the first capital of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata. During the 17th century, Paraguay was the center of Jesuit missions , where the native Guaraní people were converted to Christianity and introduced to European culture.