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31 unusual facts about Paraguay


Adolfo Lazzarini

Born in Sauce, Corrientes, Lazzarini moved from Argentina to the Paraguayan city of Pilar where he played for local Club America in 1972.

Afro-Paraguayans

As already mentioned, there are three communities of Afro - Paraguayan: the Kamba Cuá, in the Central Department (outside Asuncion), Kamba Kokue, meaning "chacra de negros" (farm of blacks) in Guarani language, and is situated in the Paraguarí Department, and Emboscada, in the Cordillera Department.

Aldo Bobadilla

Aldo Antonio Bobadilla Ávalos (born 20 April 1976 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a Paraguayan retired football goalkeeper.

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.

Ángel Amarilla

Born in Eusebio Ayala, Amarilla was signed by Valencia CF in the summer of 1999, being hailed as of one of the biggest promises in his country after playing as a 17-year-old for Atlético de Rafaela, which led his agent Eduardo Gamarnik trying to find a club for him in Europe.

Carlos Guirland

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

Celso Duarte

Celso Duarte (born June 1974, in Villarrica, Paraguay) is a virtuoso of Paraguayan harp and Mexican jarocho harp, arranger, singer, and multi-talented instrumentalist.

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.

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.

Ethnography of Argentina

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

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.

Guillermo Beltrán

Guillermo Alexis Beltrán Paredes (born June 25, 1984 in San Juan Bautista, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer who has playing for Cerro Porteño.

Jenaro Pindú

"Paraguayan Plastic Art in Hispanic Heritage Week" at the Institute of Hispanic Culture of Guaira Villarrica.

Jorge Guasch

Jorge Catalino Guasch Bazán (born 17 January 1961, in Itá, Paraguay) is a former football midfielder.

José Pedrozo

José Pedrozo (born 21 April 1982 in San Ignacio, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for San Marcos de Arica of the Primera B Chilena.

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 Rodrigo Rojas

Juan Rodrigo Rojas Ovelar (born 9 April 1988 in Fernando de la Mora) is a Paraguayan football midfielder, who plays for Universidad de Chile of the Chilean Primera División.

Juan Zacarías Ramírez

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

Julia Isídrez

Isídrez was born on February 16, 1967, in Itá in the Central Department, a city that is also nicknamed the Capital of Ceramics.

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.

Margaret Hebblethwaite

Since 2000 she has been a freelance missionary and educationalist in Santa María, Paraguay, pioneering and supporting community work in education.

Óscar Denis

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

Paraguayan Civil War

Out of eleven army divisions, four joined the rebels-on March 8 the two infantry divisions at Concepcion rebelled, joined by the two Chaco infantry divisions a few days later.

Presbyterian Church in Paraguay

It has several mission efforts in Paraguay, the latest outreach is in the Presbyterian Church in Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay.

Ramón Cardozo

Ramón Idalecio Cardozo (born 23 April 1986 in Villarrica, Guairá) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays for Vitória F.C. on loan from Club Nacional as a forward.

Roberto Cabañas

Roberto Cabañas González (born 11 April 1961 in Pilar, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan professional football player who played as a striker.

Rosa Brítez

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

Saturnino Arrúa

Born in Itá near Asunción, Arrúa made his senior debuts at only 14, with local Sportivo Iteño.

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 Ayala

Víctor Hugo Ayala Núñez (born 1 January 1988 in Eusebio Ayala) is a Paraguayan football midfielder who currently plays for Club Atlético Lanús.


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.

Archives of Terror

The "Archives of Terror" (Archivos del Terror) were found on December 22, 1992, by lawyer and human-rights activist Dr. Martín Almada, and judge José Agustín Fernández, in a police station in a suburb of Asunción (Lambaré), capital of Paraguay.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Eliza Lynch

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

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.

Erminio Blotta

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

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.

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.

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.

Jonathan Santana

In June 2007, Santana received Paraguayan citizenship (his mother is a Paraguayan citizen born in San Ignacio, Misiones Department and Argentina did not recognize dual citizenship).

Jorge Gaona

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

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 Benítez Galeano

Juan Benítez Galeano (born 23 June 1953 in Itacurubí, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer currently played for clubs of Paraguay, Chile, Ecuador and Spain.

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.

Luis Fernando Páez

Luis Fernando Páez González (born December 19, 1989 in Asunción) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Tacuary in the Primera División Paraguaya.

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.

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.

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.

Nyah

The communities were established in imitation of the New Australia settlement of William Lane in 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.

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.

Ricardo Sanabria

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

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.

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.

Schinopsis lorentzii

Schinopsis lorentzii is a hardwood tree, native of the Paraguayan subtropical area, which forms forests in Gran Chaco region of Argentina, in Paraguay, and Bolivia.

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.