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3 unusual facts about Guaraní


Jéferson Rodrigues Gonçalves

He later spent time with Guarani, a São Paulo based club, after being transferred to Santo André, where he began the ascent of his playing career and leading the squad to a Campeonato Paulista Série A2 championship and runners-up in the 2008 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B campaign.

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.

The original expression is that of the house of the Guarani chief.


1912 in Paraguayan football

Guaraní and Mbiguá were given permission to not participate in the tournament without being relegated.

2004 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

The four teams relegated to the second division were Criciúma, Guarani, Vitória and Grêmio.

2005 in Paraguayan football

Libertad (runners-up of the Clausura) qualified to the Copa Libertadores 2006 by winning the runners-up playoff game against Guaraní (runners-up of the Apertura) by an aggregate score of 5-3.

Aché people

Next, in the early 1980s a dozen families from the Chupa Pou reservation left to join the Aché band that had been contacted in the Refugio Mbaracayú (Mbaracayu Biological Sanctuary) in April 1978 and was living at a German Mission for Guarani Indians.

Aleixo Garcia

Among the 11 or 18 Spanish and Portuguese survivors was Aleixo Garcia, a Portuguese adventurer who had previously made contact with the Guaraní.

Altos, Paraguay

The second one tells that it was Friar Luis de Bolaños in 1580, with the purpose of being the first “Reducción Guaraní” of Río de la Plata and Paraguay.

Assembly of the Guarani People – North Charagua

Assembly of the Guarani People – North Charagua (in Spanish: Asamblea del Pueblo Guarani - Charagua Norte), a progressive political grouping based amongst the Guarani people that contested the December 2004 municipal elections in Charagua, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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.

Bolivian literature

Nearly half of Bolivia's population speaks indigenous languages such as Quechua, Aymara or Guarani.

Carlos Diarte

Once Diarte retired as a footballer he became a coach and managed several teams including Valencia CF (1988), Deportivo Alginet, Atlético Madrid B (1997–1998), UD Salamanca (1998–1999) and Gimnàstic de Tarragona (2002) all from Spain; Atl. Colegiales, Guaraní and Olimpia (as assistant coach) from Paraguay.

César Cáceres Cañete

Since he began his career in 1997 he has played most his career in Paraguay of he has played for Sportivo Luqueño, 12 de Octubre, Olimpia, Guaraní and 3 de Febrero.

David Galeano Olivera

Mr. David Galeano Olivera lives in Capiatá, Central department with his wife Sabina (specialist in Guarani) and his four children Edgar, Norma, Jorge and Anai.

Derlis Soto

Soto has played club football in Paraguay, Spain, and Argentina for Guaraní, Elche, Huracán, Libertad, 12 de Octubre, Coquimbo Unido, 9 de Julio, Crucero del Norte and Deportivo Caaguazú.

DINFIA IA 53

The DINFIA IA 53 Mamboretá (Guaraní for "Praying Mantis") was an agricultural aircraft developed in Argentina in the 1960s.

Enrique Pichon-Rivière

Thus, they must move to Corrientes, a city on the Paraná River, with permanent flood and forest environment, a place where he spent his childhood with the strong influence of the Guarani culture, contact daily with the indigenous and peasant modest lives.

Esporte Clube Guarani

Esporte Clube Guarani is a Brazilian football club based in Venâncio Aires, Rio Grande do Sul, known as Guarani–VA.

Ethnography of Argentina

There are Amerindian groups like the Tobas, Aymaras, Guaraníes and Mapuches among others that still maintain their cultural roots, but under continuous pressure for religious and idiomatic integration.

Native Argentines on the other hand have significant populations in the country's North-West (Quechua, Diaguita, Kolla, Aymara); in the North-East (Guaraní, Mocoví, Toba, Wichí); and in the Patagonia or South (Mapuche, Tehuelche).

Eustaquio Méndez Province

The principal language of the province is Spanish, spoken by 99.7%, while 1.7% of the population speak Quechua, 0.2 speak Aymara, and 0.1% Guaraní.

Fernando Cafasso

He seemed to have finally found his place at Guaraní, but decided to move to Italy short after he signed for them.

Gran Chaco Province

Main language of the province is Spanish, spoken by 98.4%, while 11.5% of the population speak Quechua, 3.0 speak Aymara, and 2.7% Guaraní.

Guarani dialects

Other Guarani groups that exist are the Gwarayú or Guarayos around 30,000, and Sirionó some 800 in Santa Cruz.

Eastern Bolivian Guaraní, also known as Chawuncu or Chiriguano, is spoken in by 33,670 speakers (or 36,917) in the south-central Parapeti River area and in the city of Tarija.

Guarani mythology

Tupã then created humanity (according to most Guaraní myths, the Guaraní were naturally the first race of people to be made, with every other civilization being born from it) in an elaborate ceremony, forming clay statues of man and woman with a mixture of various elements from nature.

Guarayu language

Compared to other Guarani peoples, the Gwarayú are lighter in colour, and bear a striking resemblance to another Guarani group found in Paraguay the Ache.

Hólger Matamoros

Placed in Group 2 with Boca Juniors, Deportivo Táchira, and Guaraní, they won all three home games, including a historic 1-0 victory over Boca.

Iguazú National Park

They were displaced around 1,000 CE by the Guaraní, who brought new agricultural technologies, and were displaced in turn by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores in the 16th century, though their legacy is still alive in this area (the name of the park and the river is Guaraní y guasu, "large water").

Jorge Guasch

Nicknamed "El Chino" (the Chinese), Guasch started his career at the small regional club Guaraní de Davaru in the city of Carapeguá, in 1975.

José Bozzano

The dockyards produced more than 300,000 hand grenades, the famous carumbe `i (Guaraní for "little turtle"), which, for the pride of Paraguayans in the war, proved more effective than the Belgian designed SIP grenades, used by the Bolivian army) and built and assembled the coachworks of 2,308 trucks (at a rate of five per hour).

Léo Cittadini

Cittadini started his career at Guarani, and was promoted to first team in 2010, under the management of Vágner Mancini.

Marcelo Palau

Marcelo José Palau Balzaretti (born 1 August 1985 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan football midfielder who is currently playing for Guaraní in the Paraguayan Primera División.

Millonarios Fútbol Club

In Copa Sudamericana, the team was highly successful, reaching semifinals after eliminating Inti Gas, Guaraní, and the Brazilians Palmeiras, and Gremio, being eliminated by runner-up, Tigre.

Miltão

In 1979 he played for Guarani, both in the National championship (only 2 appearances) and the Copa Libertadores: during the latter tournament he scored 6 goals, finishing as the topscorer along Peruvian Juan José Oré.

Misiones Department

The modern settling of Misiones began with the arrival of Jesuit missionaries to the region in the 17th century and the subsequent establishment of several reductions whose purpose was to both civilize and catechize the indigenous Guaraní peoples.

Misiones Province

At the time of European encounter, it was occupied by the Kaingang, Xokleng and Guarani culture.

Paraguayan harp

The Spanish Franciscan friars who established missions in Paraguay were less successful in subjugating the Tupi Guarani Indians to forced labor source so that the Guarani they became a more powerful culture in Paraguay, and Guaraní became the country's official second language, making Paraguay the only nation in the Americas with an indigenous official national language.

PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature

The award was established by author Lily Tuck to assist with the translation of Paraguayan literature from Spanish or Guarani into English.

Rafael da Silva

Rafael Araújo Silva (born 1988), or simply Rafael, Brazilian central defender footballer, currently plays for Guaraní

Sirionó language

Sirionó (also Mbia Chee, Mbya, Siriono) is a Tupian (Tupi–Guarani, Subgroup II) language spoken by about 400 Sirionó people (50 are monolingual) in eastern Bolivia (eastern Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz departments) in the village of Ibiato (Eviato) and along the Río Blanco in farms and ranches.

Stephen G. McFarland

Mr. McFarland speaks fluent Spanish and some Guarani, and he is currently studying K'iche', the second most widely spoken language in Guatemala after Spanish.

VBTP-MR Guarani

On the 26 November 2009, the Brazilian Defence Minister, Nelson Jobim, announced that President Lula had authorized the start of production for 2044 new vehicles with the new name Guarani, formerly known as Urutu III.

Vidal Sanabria

Sanabria started his football career in the youth divisions of Club 13 Tuyutí of Capiatá and then moved to Guaraní before making his debut for Olimpia Asunción in 1987.

Western Bolivian Guaraní

Western Bolivian Guaraní, known locally as Simba and Simba Guaraní, is a Guaraní language spoken in Bolivia, in the Chuquisaca Department north of the Pilcomayo River.

Yeísmo

The distinction is more common in areas where bilingualism with indigenous languages such as Aymara and Guaraní is common.


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