Ñeembucú Department
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Ñeembucú is a department
Departments of Paraguay
|Paraguay consists of 17 departments and one capital district . These are, with their capitals indicated in parentheses:- External links :...

 located in the south of the Eastern Region of Paraguay
Paraguay
Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...

. The capital is Pilar
Pilar, Paraguay
Pilar is the capital city of the Paraguayan department of Ñeembucú, located along the Paraguay River in the southwestern part of the country. Located about from Asunción, Pilar serves as an important center of commerce and government for the far southwestern region of the country.- History :Pilar...

. The department is almost entirely rural, and is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved Jesuit ruins
Ruins
Ruins are the remains of human-made architecture: structures that were once complete, as time went by, have fallen into a state of partial or complete disrepair, due to lack of maintenance or deliberate acts of destruction...

, which are located near the town of Humaitá
Humaitá
Humaitá is a town on the Paraguay River in southern Paraguay. During the War of the Triple Alliance, it served as the main Paraguayan stronghold from 1866 until its fall in August 1868. During that time, it housed as many as 24,000 troops...

.

Districts

The department is divided in 16 districts:
  1. Alberdi
    Alberdi, Paraguay
    Alberdi is a city in the Ñeembucú Department, Paraguay.The city is located along the Paraguay River. The name of the city pays homage to the Argentine writer Juan Bautista Alberdi, who always voiced his sympathy and support towards Paraguay during the War of the Triple Alliance.Most of the city is...

  2. Cerrito
    Cerrito, Paraguay
    Cerrito is a city in the Ñeembucú Department, Paraguay.It is located along the Paraná River with two types of beaches: one with shallow depths in which you can basically cross a long stretch of the river and a deep one just within a few meters from the coast...

  3. Desmochados
    Desmochados
    Desmochados is a village in Paraguay, near the northern border of Argentina.The population is about 250 people. Some nearby larger cities are:* Corrientes 56.1 miles,* Resistencia 65.2 miles,* Pilar ....

  4. General José Eduvigis Díaz
    General José Eduvigis Díaz
    General José Eduvigis Díaz is a town in the Ñeembucú department of Paraguay.- Sources :* – World-Gazetteer.com...

  5. Guazú Cuá
  6. Humaitá
    Humaitá
    Humaitá is a town on the Paraguay River in southern Paraguay. During the War of the Triple Alliance, it served as the main Paraguayan stronghold from 1866 until its fall in August 1868. During that time, it housed as many as 24,000 troops...

  7. Isla Umbú
    Isla Umbú
    Isla Umbú is a village in the Ñeembucú department of Paraguay, about 12 km south of Pilar. It is known as the watershed of dairy Ñeembucú.-The people:...

  8. Laureles
    Laureles
    Laureles is a town in the Ñeembucú department of Paraguay.- Sources :* – World-Gazetteer.com...

  9. Mayor José J. Martinez
  10. Paso de Patria
    Paso de Patria
    Paso de Patria is a town in the Ñeembucú department of Paraguay.- Sources :* – World-Gazetteer.com...

  11. Pilar
    Pilar, Paraguay
    Pilar is the capital city of the Paraguayan department of Ñeembucú, located along the Paraguay River in the southwestern part of the country. Located about from Asunción, Pilar serves as an important center of commerce and government for the far southwestern region of the country.- History :Pilar...

  12. San Juan Bautista del Ñeembucú
  13. Tacuaras
    Tacuaras
    Tacuaras is a town in the Ñeembucú department of Paraguay. Tacuaras is a good fertile area for farming it used to be lush green tropical forest, but now it is a place with about 300 people . The land in that territory is not very expensive, it is cheap at about $100 per hectare.- Sources :* –...

  14. Villa Franca
    Villa Franca
    Villa Franca is a village in the Ñeembucú department of Paraguay.- Sources :* – World-Gazetteer.com...

  15. Villa Oliva
    Villa Oliva
    Villa Oliva is a village in the Ñeembucú department of Paraguay.- Sources :**...

  16. Villalbín
    Villalbín
    Villalbín is a village in the Ñeembucú department of Paraguay.- Sources :* – World-Gazetteer.com...


Land

The terrain in Ñeembucú is markedly flat, covered mostly in flat, grassy fields only broken by the occasional wetland swamp or green "monte". Montes, despite their name, are not mountains at all, but patches of dense trees and brush that provide shade to the cattle who graze on the flat plains surrounding them. Almost all of the land in Ñeembucú is used for grazing (cattle, sheep) or other types of agriculture.

Borders

To the west, Ñeembucú is limited by the Rio Paraguay and Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, to the south by the Rio Paraná and Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, to the north by the Central
Central Department
Central is a department in Paraguay. The capital is Areguá. With its 1,929,834 inhabitants it is the most populated of the 17 departments of Paraguay.-Boundaries:*North: the departments of Cordillera and Presidente Hayes....

 department, and to the east by the departments of Paraguarí
Paraguarí
Paraguarí is a city, distrito and capital of Paraguarí Department in Paraguay, located 66 km from the country’s capital, Asunción. At the 2002 census it had a population of 22,154.- Toponymy :...

 and Misiones.

External links

  • http://misionesparaguay.com/Cerrito.html
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