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31 unusual facts about Paraguay


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.

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.

Claudio Delgado

Claudio Delgado (born 21 June 1984 in San Lorenzo, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for 2 de Mayo of the Division Intermedia in Paraguay.

Domingo Salcedo

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

Edgar Robles

Edgar Robles (born November 22, 1977 in San Lorenzo, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Sportivo Luqueño of the Primera División in Paraguay.

Edison Giménez

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.

Eligio Echagüe

Eligio Silvestre Echagüe Delgado (born 31 December 1938 in Concepción, Paraguay) is a former football defender; most commonly playing in the left-back position.

Elvis Marecos

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.

Ethnography of Argentina

Finally, through centuries people from neighboring countries like Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru immigrated to Argentina, establishing important communities.

Football Federation of the 1st Department Concepción

The main office of this federation is located in the city of Concepción.

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.

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.

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 Eulogio Estigarribia

Juan Eulogio Estigarribia is a city in the country of Paraguay.

Juan Zacarías Ramírez

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

Justo Villar

Born in Cerrito, Ñeembucú Department, Villar started his career at Club Sol de América where he was coached by legendary Ever Hugo Almeida, also a goalkeeper, as the side also included another famed player in that position as the keepers' coach, Modesto Sandoval.

Marcelo Estigarribia

Marcelo Alejandro Estigarribia Balmori (born 21 September 1987 in Fernando de la Mora) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays for Atalanta, on loan from Deportivo Maldonado.

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.

Presbyterian Church in Paraguay

The Presbyterian Church in San Lorenzo celebrates the 25th anniversary of Presbyterianism in San Lorenzo, Paraguay.

Ricardo Sanabria

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

Rosa Brítez

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

San Juan Bautista, Paraguay

The city is the third most populated one in Misiones, after San Ignacio and Ayolas.

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.

Vicente Paciello

Vicente Paciello (born 28 February 1986 in Concepción, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Sportivo San Lorenzo of the División Intermedia in Paraguay.

Víctor Ramón Ferreira

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

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.


2009 Paraguayan Primera División season

The 2009 División Profesional season (officially the 2009 Copa TIGO for sponsorship reasons) is the 75th season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay.

Adelio Salinas

Adelio Rubén Salinas Vallejos (born April 18, 1968 in Ayala, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer currently played for clubes of Paraguay, Argentina, Chile and Indonesia.

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.

Amambay Department

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.

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.

Carlos Bonet

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

Cayetano Ré Ramírez (7 February 1938 – 26 November 2013) was a Paraguayan footballer striker and coach who was born in Asunción.

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

Danilo Aceval

Danilo Vicente Aceval Maldonado (born 15 September 1975 in Arroyo, Paraguay) is a retired Paraguayan football goalkeeper.

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.

Edgar Balbuena

Edgar Gabriel Balbuena Adorno or, simply, Edgar Balbuena (born 20 November 1980 in Capiatá) is a Paraguayan footballer.

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.

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.

Harles Bourdier

Harles Daniel Bourdier (born 14 August 1972 in Asunción) is a retired Paraguayan international footballer.

Jorge Gaona

Jorge Constantino Gaona Aranda, more commonly known as Jorge Gaona (born 26 January 1985 in Asunción), is a Paraguayan football midfielder.

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.

Juan de Salazar de Espinosa

Juan de Salazar y Espinosa (1508–1560) was a Spanish explorer, founder of the Paraguayan city of Asunción.

K. David Harrison

Harrison has done field work on endangered languages in Siberia and Mongolia Tuvan, Tsengel Tuvan, Tofa, Ös, Tuha, Monchak, Munda, and also in Paraguay, Chile, Papua New Guinea, and India.

Luis Pedro Figueroa

Figueroa has also played friendlies during the 2006 and he scored his first goal for Chile against Paraguay (3–2 victory).

Mburuvichá Roga

Residencia Presidencial Mburuvichá Róga (Guarani for House of the Chief) is a building in Asuncion, Paraguay, that serves as the official residence for the President and First Lady of Paraguay, and is also the official headquarters of the Office of the First Lady of the Nation.

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 Samudio

Miguel Ángel Ramón Samudio (born 24 August 1986 in Capiatá) is a Paraguayan footballer currently under contract with Libertad.

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

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.

Morpho thamyris

The Thamyris Morpho, Morpho thamyris, is a Neotropical butterfly found in Paraguay and Brazil (Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul).

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.

Osvaldo Peralta

Osvaldo Antonio Peralta Medina (born 2 February 1971 in San Pedro del Paraná, Itapúa) is a retired football (soccer) defender from 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 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.

Ricardo Migliorisi

Ricardo was born in Asunción, Paraguay, on January 6, 1948 to Isolina Salsa Ferraris and Salvador Migliorisi Tumino, of Italian origin.

Riechia

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.

Robert Servín

Robert Antonio Servín (born 18 July 1984 in Cecilio Báez) is a Paraguayan footballer playing for Everton.

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.

Sálvio Spínola Fagundes Filho

Following the retirement of fellow countryman Carlos Eugênio Simon he finally secured his maiden Copa América appointment in 2011, where he went on to officiate the final between Uruguay and 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 Rafael Reserve of Manageable Resources

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.

San Roque González de Santa Cruz Bridge

The bridge was first projected in 1977 through an agreement between the governments of Argentina and Paraguay, as a compensation to Paraguay for the flooding of part of its territory by the Yacyretá Dam.

Schinopsis

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

Scientific Monument Moises Bertoni

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.

T. aurea

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

Vidal Sanabria

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

Yataity del Norte

Yataity del Norte is a town and district in the San Pedro department of Paraguay, you can access this district by Route 8 "Dr. Blás Garay", like most people who were born and grew up on the side of the road, is a laborious community, which focuses on trade and agricultural production.