Ñeembucú Department

Ñeembucú Department Departamento de Ñeembucú
Department
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Coordinates:
Country	Paraguay
Region	Eastern Region
Established	1776
Capital	Pilar
Largest city	Pilar
Government
• Governor	Pedro Alliana Rodriguez (National Republican Association)
Area
• Total	12,147 km2 (4,690 sq mi)
Area rank	10
Population (2007)
• Total	82,846
• Rank	16
• Density	6.8/km2 (18/sq mi)
Time zone	AST (UTC-04)
• Summer (DST)	ADT (UTC-03)
ISO 3166 code	PY-12
Number of Districts	16

Ñeembucú (Spanish pronunciation: [ɲembuˈku]; Guaraní: Ñe'ẽmbuku) is a department located in the south of the Eastern Region of Paraguay. The capital is Pilar. The department is almost entirely rural, and is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved Jesuit ruins, which are located near the town of Humaitá.

Districts

The department is divided in 16 districts:

1. Alberdi
2. Cerrito
3. Desmochados
4. General José Eduvigis Díaz
5. Guazú Cuá
6. Humaitá
7. Isla Umbú
8. Laureles
9. Mayor José J. Martinez
10. Paso de Patria
11. Pilar
12. San Juan Bautista del Ñeembucú
13. Tacuaras
14. Villa Franca
15. Villa Oliva
16. Villalbín

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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, to the south by the Rio Paraná and Argentina, to the north by the Central department, and to the east by the departments of Paraguarí and Misiones.

History

Ñeembucú was the theatre of the second phase of the War of the Triple Alliance. Battles fought there included Tuyutí, Curupaytí, the Boquerón del Sauce and Humaitá.

See also

• List of high schools in Ñeembucú

External links

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