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2 unusual facts about Cerro Corá


History of Paraguay

In a gesture calculated to rewrite history and erase seven decades of national shame, Franco declared Solano López a national hero "sin ejemplar" (without precedent) because he had stood up to foreign threats, and sent a team to Cerro Corá to find his unmarked grave.

Potenji River

The river's wellspring is located at the municipality of Cerro Corá and its waterfall is located at the city of Natal, where it discharges into the Atlantic Ocean.


La sangre y la semilla

Written by Augusto Roa Bastos, based on a story by Mario Halley Mora, it is a historical film set in 1870 at the end of the Paraguayan War, during the exodus of the last followers of President Francisco Solano López to Cerro Cora (1870).


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