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unusual facts about Asunción, Paraguay



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.

Agriculture in Paraguay

A more suitable location for crops was the central region in the vicinity of Asunción, where traditional crop production had dominated since peasants were pushed toward the capital at the end of the Paraguayan War.

Alejandro Da Silva

In 2005 Da Silva returned to Paraguay to rejoin Cerro Porteño where he played until his transfer to Newell's Old Boys in 2007.

Antenor Orrego

Antenor Orrego was born in 1892 to José Asunción Orrego and Victoria Espinoza Villanueva in the Santa Cruz Province of the Cajamarca Region of Peru.

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.

Blas Irala

Blas Irala (born November 30, 1983 in Piribebuy, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Nacional of the Primera División in Paraguay.

Bulan, Sorsogon

The St. Louise De Marillac School (Formerly Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion) a Catholic school run by the Daughters of Charity religious congregation, Saint Bonaventure Academy of Butag, the Southern Luzon Institute-Kenerino Ramirez Asuncion Memorial School (SLI-KRAMS) were the oldest school in Bulan, Solis Institute of Technology, and A.G. Villaroya Technological Foundation Institute.

Carlos Guirland

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

Cayetano Ré

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

Cerro Cora National Park

If one is leaving from Asunción, needs to take Ruta 2, and go until Coronel Oviedo city.

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).

César Alonso de las Heras

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.

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).

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.

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.

Diario Wochenblatt

Diario Wochenblatt is a German-language newspaper published in Acahay, Paraguay.

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.

Eliza Lynch

The play Visions (1978) by Louis Nowra depicts Lynch and López leading Paraguay to disaster in the Paraguayan War.

Emilio Bigi

Emilio Bigi was born in Asunción, Paraguay, on July 1, 1910, son of Elisa Bigi, from the Italian collectivity in this country.

Enrique Jara Saguier

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

Erminio Blotta

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

Evanílson Aparecido Ferreira

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 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.

General Francisco Álvarez

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

Gerardo Traverso

Traverso's career ended following a serious injury sustained in an automobile crash in Asunción in May 2004.

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.

Jorge Amado Nunes

Jorge Amado Nunes Infrán (born 18 October 1961 in Berazategui, Argentina) is a former Paraguayan football midfielder that currently works as a coach.

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.

Juan Eulogio Estigarribia

Juan Eulogio Estigarribia is a city in the country of 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.

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.

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.

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.

Nelson Cuevas

Nelson Rafael Cuevas Amarilla (born 10 January 1980 in Asunción, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan former footballer and current singer.

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.

Óscar Denis

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

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.

Pró-Vida

After beginning activities in the city of São Paulo, at present PRO-VIDA has participating nuclei in various other Brazilian towns and in other countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, Spain and the United States of America, besides four country clubs: three in Brazil and one in Argentina.

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.

Robert Servín

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

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.

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

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.

Tomás Guzmán

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.


see also

Alberto Jara Saguier

Alberto Isidoro Jara Saguier (born 30 September 1943 in Asunción, Paraguay) is a former football midfielder and coach.

Arsenio Erico

Erico, born in Asunción, Paraguay, started his career in Club National of Paraguay and made his debut in the club's first team squad at the age of 15.

Benny Ricardo

Benito Concepcion "Benny" Ricardo (born January 4, 1954 in Asunción, Paraguay) is a former American football placekicker in the NFL (1976-1984) for the Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints, Minnesota Vikings, and the San Diego Chargers.

Club Nacional de Regatas El Mbiguá

Club Nacional de Regatas El Mbiguá (most commonly known as "Club Mbiguá") is a multisport club based in Asunción, Paraguay.

Eulogio Martínez

Eulogio Martínez Ramiro (born 11 June 1935 in Asunción, Paraguay, died 30 September 1984 in Barcelona, Spain) was a Paraguayan-Spaniard football striker.

Heinz Brücher

He refused, and after the second world war Brücher emigrated to Argentina and received there in 1948 a professorship in genetics and botany at University of Tucumán (Tucumán, Argentina), then in Caracas (Venezuela), Asunción (Paraguay) and later in Mendoza and Buenos Aires (Argentina).

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.

Ignacio Núñez Soler

He was born in Asunción, Paraguay, on July 31, 1891, son of Adolfo R. Soler and Ascención Núñez, but he used Núñez Soler when signing his work (using the mother’s last name first before the father’s last name, contrary to what is custom in Paraguay), always being a rebel and nonconformist until his death at the age of 92 years.

Jose Arrua

Jose Gabriel Arrua Ovelar (born 11 January 1989 in Asunción, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer who currently plays for Sportivo Luqueño.

Ricardo Migliorisi

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