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Adelio Salinas

Adelio Rubén Salinas Vallejos (born April 18, 1968 in Ayala, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer currently played for clubes of Paraguay, Argentina, Chile and Indonesia.

Adolfo Costa du Rels

In June 1933 Costa du Rels wrote to the Secretary General of the League of Nations pointing out the great military importance of Puerto Casado, a port on the Paraguay River, which was being used as a base for Paraguayan troops and as a point of supply for these troops.

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.

Benjamín Aceval

It is named after the Paraguayan diplomat who took documents related to the Chaco Boreal dispute with Argentina, after the Paraguayan War, to the President of the U.S.A. Rutherford B. Hayes.

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.

Buenaventura Ferreira

Buenaventura Ferreira Gómez (born 4 July 1960 in Coronel Oviedo) is a Paraguayan former football striker or midfielder.

Caaguazú Department

Caaguazú is the home department of several Paraguayan personalities, such as the writer Mario Halley Mora and the musician Cayo Sila Godoy.

Cheese bun

The Paraguayan city of Coronel Bogado in the department of Itapúa is considered the National Capital of the Chipa.

Christian Martínez

Christian René Martínez (born 1977), Paraguayan footballer for Persib Bandung and PPSM Kartika Nusantara

Cirilo R. Zayas

He also started in the composition of music for zarzuelas and one of them, the Paraguayan zarzuela “Mburukuja”, with music of Neneco Norton, is still popular.

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.

Cultural Center of the Republic

Some of the more valuables items are the ones that belonged to Luis Alberto del Paraná, one of the most important exponents of Paraguayan music; and the guitar that belonged to Agustín Pío Barrios.

David Portillo

David Portillo (born 24 November 1984 in San Juan Bautista, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Deportes Antofagasta of the Primera División in Chile.

Denis Caniza

Due to his small size and industrial play, he has been described by BBC South American reporter Tim Vickery as "the Paraguayan Nobby Stiles".

Derlis Ortiz

Derlis Fabián Ortiz (born 12 December 1986 in Luque) is a Paraguayan footballer playing for Sportivo Luqueño.

Edison Giménez

Mario Edison Giménez (born 5 April 1981 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a Paraguayan footballer that currently plays for Colombian Primera A side Itagüí as striker.

Eladio Martínez

In 1948 was invited to the Olympic Games in London, England, sponsored by Sir Eugen Millington-Drake, to make up for the Paraguayan absence in Olympic sports.

Eliza Lynch

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

Football in Paraguay

Among the most important and successful football players in Paraguayan history are Arsenio Erico, Aurelio González, Romerito and José Luis Chilavert.

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.

Jenaro Pindú

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

"Paraguayan Illustrators" at the Museum of Folk Art and Contemporary Art of Paraguay Villeta.

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).

Jose Arrua

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

José Fleitas

José Fleitas (born November 07, 1986 in Bella Vista Norte, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Naval of the Primera B Chilena.

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.

Julio César Cáceres

In October 2008 Cáceres had a very public conflict with Boca teammate Juan Román Riquelme, when in an interview on a Paraguayan radio station in Asunción, where he was training with his national team, Cáceres questioned Riquelme's motivation.

Michael Godoy

Michael Godoy (born 17 July 1983 in Caacupé, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Universidad de Concepción of the Primera División in Chile.

Miguel Pecci Saavedra

He is counted amongst a creative and enthusiastic group of young actors and playwrights including Luis Ruffinelli, Francisco Martín Barrios, Facundo Recalde, Benigno Villa and Arturo Alsina who were of major importance to the development of Paraguayan theatre in the 1920s.

Moisés Santiago Bertoni

Participates of the country's public life, and having conducted research for proper cultivation in Paraguay, was invited by the Paraguayan president, General Juan Bautista Egusquiza (1845–1902), to form an Agricultural Institute in Asunción.

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.

Oscar Vicente Scavone

Oscar Vicente Scavone, born on July 2, 1955, in Asunción, Paraguay, is a successful Paraguayan businessman and former president of one of the nation's premier soccer teams, Club Olimpia.

Osvaldo Aquino

Aquino's highlights at Olimpia include scoring the first goal in the Copa Libertadores 1979 final against Boca Juniors, winning the Intercontinental Cup in 1979 and winning six consecutive Paraguayan 1st division titles from 1978 to 1983.

Otelo Ocampos

Otelo Ocampos Espíndola (born 10 June 1983 in Escobar, Paraguarí Department) is a Paraguayan footballer who currently plays as a striker for Primera División Chilena club Universidad de Concepción.

Pablo Aguilar

Pablo César Aguilar (born 1987), Paraguayan football defender who plays for Club Tijuana in the Liga MX (Mexican Primera División)

Paraguayan Tercera División

Tercera División de Paraguay (Third Division of Paraguay, in English), is the third division of Paraguayan football (soccer), and it is organized by the Paraguayan Football Association in the metropolitan area, and organized by the Unión del Fútbol del Interior, in the rest of the country, except Asunción and Central department.

Ricardo Mazacotte

Ricardo Mazacotte (born 9 January 1985 in Formosa, Argentina) is an Argentine-Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Club Olimpia of the Primera División in Paraguay.

Rigoberto Fontao Meza

His high composer attributes where useful to being the first author of the verses of the first guaranias composed by the creator of that revolutionary Paraguayan style, José Asunción Flores, whom he maintained a long and strong friendship, ruined later by a disagreement between them related to the guarania "India".

Ripe Banana Skins

RBS also participated in the popular Paraguayan rock festival "Quilmes Rock", playing in front of more than 40,000 people.

Rosa Brítez

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

Ruffinelli

Luis Ruffinelli, Paraguayan playwright, journalist and political activist.

Sanapaná language

Sanapana (Saapa'ang) is a language of the Paraguayan Chaco.

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.

SIAI S.52

The Paraguayan government decided to buy it in 1927 -- the first fighter Paraguay had ever bought and its only fighter until the arrival of seven Wibault 73 C.1 aircraft in 1928 -- but placed no order for additional S.52s.

Silvio Pettirossi

Asunción's Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, three soccer clubs, the Airborne Brigade of the Paraguayan Air Force, a Paraguayan Air Force Base in Luque, an avenue in Asunción, the Paraguayan Institute of Aviation History, a school, and some other things are named after him.

Ubalda García de Cañete

Ubalda García de Cañete (1807–1890) was the eldest daughter of the Paraguayan dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia.

Universidad Nacional de Itapúa

A cross with the heart of the first Paraguayan saint, San Roque G. de Santa Cruz, projects from the top of the arc.

Víctor Ferreira

Víctor Ramón Ferreira (born 1986), Paraguayan footballer for Real Garcilaso

Víctor Ramón Ferreira

Víctor Ramón Ferreira Barrios (born 9 May 1986 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays for Real Garcilaso.


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