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8 unusual facts about Encarnación


Alfredo Mendoza

Alfredo Damián Mendoza Sulewski (born 12 December 1963 in Encarnación) is a retired football striker from Paraguay.

Cirilo R. Zayas

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.

Encarnación, Paraguay

Encarnación is the capital city of the Paraguayan department of Itapúa, located at the south-east of the department, on the right-hand (western) shore of the Paraná River, opposite Posadas, Argentina.

Juan Casco

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 Zacarías Ramírez

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

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.

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.

Posadas is the capital city of the Argentine province of Misiones, located at the south of the province, on the left-hand (eastern) shore of the Paraná River, opposite Encarnación, Paraguay.


Ammon M. Tenney

However the first on this mission went to the vicinity of Mesa, Arizona and rebaptized Encarnacion Valenzuela, a Papago who had been a member of the LDS Church for some years.

Crucero del Norte

On January 2011, the squad won its first international tournament, the Copa Víctor Hugo Zayas, played in Encarnación, Paraguay after beating local teams Universal (1-0) and Independiente de Campo Grande (5-4 via penalty shoot-out after the 90' ended in a tie).

Joaquín Pinto

Pinto was born August 18, 1842 in Quito, Ecuador, to José Pinto y Valdemoros and Encarnación Ortiz y Cevallos.

Juan Encarnación

Encarnación finished the 2006 season, his first with the Cardinals, batting .278 with 19 home runs and 79 RBI for the Cards, with 6 steals.

In July 2009, a Dominican news organization reported that Encarnación was organizing a run to become a senator in the Dominican Republic, representing his home province of San Juan de la Maguana.

Natalio

The district lies 45 km off Route 6 which connects departmental capitals Encarnación and Ciudad del Este.

Posadas, Misiones

The National University of Misiones was established at Posadas in 1973, and in 1990, the city's cultural and economic links to Encarnación were strengthened with the completion of the San Roque González de Santa Cruz Bridge.

Transport in Paraguay

Asunción, long the country’s only modern port, Encarnación, and San Antonio serve as the country’s other major ports.


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