Paraguay
A Spanish-speaking country
The Capital
The city
Asunción
Plaza de los Heroes
Geography
General description
Mountains
Location:
Bordering countries:
Extra:
Major Cities
Asunción
Ciudad del Este
San Lorenzo
Landmarks
The Casa de la Independencia Museum, located in Asunción
National Pantheon of the Heroes
La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná
Cerro Cora National Park
Economy:
Overview:
Currency
The Language:
Spanish (official), Guarani (official)
Food:
Lunch
- Lunch is the main meal of the day. Businesspeople and schoolchildren go home at noon to have lunch with their family. It may be followed by an hour-long nap before everyone returns to work and school.
Dinner
- Never invite anyone for a 7:00 p.m. dinner, which would be far too early. Invite people at 8:30 or 9:00 p.m., and serve dinner at 10:00 p.m.
Bori-bori
The Tereré Rupa Tereré rupa
The Tereré Rupa
Tereré rupa is a combination of things eaten during breakfast or mid-morning.
Usually made of:
Chipá - bread kneaded with yuca starch (also known as cassava or locally as mandioca) cheese, eggs, milk and aniseed. It is a round shape with a hole in the middle (looks like a bagel). Chipá is consumed a lot during holidays and festivities, especially Easter.
Mate Cocido - yerba mate (a mixture of herbs) that has boiled water added to it. It is then strained and poured into cups sweetened with sugar.
Mbejú – Sometimes written as Mbeyú, this is a staple of the Paraguayan diet and is consumed at any time of the day. It is a starch cake that looks like a cross between an omelet and a pancake. It is made with mandioca and cheese and is cooked in a very hot frying pan. In the guarani language mbejú means cake.
Important people:
José Bozzano
- José Bozzano, military engineer who led the Paraguayan war effort during the Chaco War designed gunboats for the Chaco War.
Juan Carlos Wasmosy
Andrés Rodríguez
- An army general and former president
Music
Climate
Seasons
The Sports
The religions
The history
The first inhabitants of modern day Paraguay were various Indian tribes that are seminomadic and have a warrior culture. By the early 16th century the Europeans arrived led by the Spanish conquistador Juan de Salazar y Espinoza and established the Asuncion settlement on August 15, 1537. The settlement became a city and the center of the Spanish colonial authority. This was also the main site of the Jesuit settlements and missions that lasted for 150 years until the Spanish authorities expelled the religious order from the country in 1767. The country became independent on May 14, 1811 by ousting the Spanish colonial administration.
The Paraguayans then became involved in a series of fighting among themselves and with their neighbors, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. In the War of the Triple Alliance which lasted for five years, the republic fought and was defeated by its three neighbor countries 1870. It lost more than half of its population and substantial territories to Argentina and Brazil. Then in the 1930s it fought against Bolivia in the Chaco wars where it emerged victorious. The republic was able to reestablish its authority in the Chaco region but had to renounce additional territory gains as part of the peace settlement. The country from 1904 to 1954 saw 31 presidents each serving an average of more than a year and half. Most did not complete their term as they were forced out of office.
In 2008 former Bishop Fernando Lugo won by a comfortable majority the nation’s presidential election ending more than 60 years of consecutive rule by the conservative party.
Natives
Tribes
Aché
Abipón
Ayoreo
Chané
Chamacoco (Ishir)
Ebytoso
Tomáraho
Chiripá
Chorote
Guana
Guaraní
Lengua (Enxet)
Nivaclé[2] (Chulupí)
Macá
Mbayá
Pai-Tavyter
Sanapaná
Toba
Zamuco
Natural resources
hydropower, timber, iron ore, manganese, limestone
Exports
soybeans, livestock feed, cotton, meat, edible oils, wood, leather
Brazil 30.8%, Russia 10.8%, Argentina 7.4%, Chile 6.9%, Netherlands 4.5% (2014)
$13.45 billion (2014 est.)
$13.44 billion (2013 est.)
The government
conventional long form: Republic of Paraguay
conventional short form: Paraguay
local long form: Republica del Paraguay
local short form: Paraguay
Government type:constitutional republic
chief of state: President Horacio CARTES (since 15 August 2013); Vice President Juan AFARA Maciel (since 15 August 2013); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government
head of government: President Horacio CARTES (since 15 August 2013); Vice President Juan AFARA Maciel (since 15 August 2013)
cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president
elections/appointments: president and vice president directly elected on the same ballot by simple majority popular vote for a single 5-year term; election last held on 21 April 2013 (next to be held in April 2018)
election results: Horacio CARTES elected president; percent of vote - Horacio CARTES (ANR) 45.8%, Efrain ALEGRE (PLRA) 36.9%, Mario FERREIRO (AP) 5.9%, Anibal CARRILLO (FG) 3.3%, other 8%
description: bicameral National Congress or Congreso Nacional consists of the Chamber of Senators or Camara de Senadores (45 seats; members directly elected in a single nationwide constituency by proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms) and the Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (80 seats; members directly elected in 18 multi-seat constituencies - corresponding to the country's 17 departments and capital city - by proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms)
elections: Chamber of Senators - last held on 21 April 2013 (next to be held in April 2018); Chamber of Deputies - last held on 21 April 2013 (next to be held in April 2018)
highest court(s): Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (consists of 9 justices divided 3 each into the Constitutional Court, Civil and Commercial Chamber, and Criminal Division
judge selection and term of office: justices proposed by the Council of Magistrates or Consejo de la Magistratura, a 6-member independent body, and appointed by the Chamber of Senators with presidential concurrence; judges appointed until mandatory retirement at age 75
Tourist places
Encarnación
It includes beaches and Casino, but hotels are 3 stars averaging 3-stars.
Ciudad del Este
It includes shopping centers and casinos, at 3-stars and 5-stars hotels.
Asunción
Nuestra Señora Santa María de la Asunción is the capital and largest city of Paraguay. The Ciudad de Asunción is an autonomous capital district not part of any department.
It includes casinos, nightlife, music, churches and historical sites, 3-stars and 5-star hotels.
Piribebuy
It includes historical sites, music, museums and cultural sites.
Pedro Juan Caballero
It includes casinos and gambling places with 3-star hotels.
Bibliography
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