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The city was so named when a stockade was completed there on the Feast of the Assumption (August 15) in 1537. When Buenos Aires was evacuated in 1541 after an attack by the Pampa Indians, the inhabitants fled to Asunción.
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Asunción, known as the "Mother of Cities," is one of the oldest cities in South America. It was from there that the colonial expeditions departed to found other cities, including the second foundation of Buenos Aires, Villarrica, Corrientes, Santa Fe and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The first European visitor to the area may have been conquistador Juan...
Paraguayis a constitutional republic, with a popularly elected president, and a bicameral Congress consisting of an 80-member Chamber of Deputies and a 45-member Senate. The country has a multiparty electoral system, but the Colorado Party governed for 60 years. Asunción has a mayor and a city council. The Asunción Capital District is a subnational...
Paraguay has a predominantly agricultural economy, with a struggling commercial sector, a large informal sector, and a large subsistence sector. There is sizable urban unemployment and under-employment, and a large underground re-export sector. The country has vast hydroelectric resources, including the world's largest hydroelectric-generation faci...
The population of Asunción city proper was approximately 512,112 people in 2002. The metropolitan area, named Gran Asunción, which includes the cities of San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso, Ñemby and Villa Elisa, had a population of 1,639,000 inhabitants in 2002. Roughly 30 percent of Paraguay's six million peopl...
Asunción is home to the Godoy Museum and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (which contains paintings from the nineteenth century), the Church of La Encarnación and the Cathedral, and the Panteón Nacional de los Héroes, a smaller version of Les Invalides in Paris, where many of the nation's heroes are entombed. Other landmarks include the Palacio d...
CIA World Fact Book. ParaguayRetrieved July 17, 2008.Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 2008. AsuncionRetrieved July 16, 2008.Moreno, Fulgencio Ricardo. 1926. La ciudad de la Asuncion.Buenos Aires: J. Suarez OCLC 221603452Reid, William Alfred. 1918. "Asuncion, Paraguay's interesting capital." Bulletin of the Pan American Union47 (4): 485-510. OCLC 49463371The first settlement at Buenos Aires is established in 1536. In 1537 colonists construct a stockade fort hundreds of miles up the Paraná and Paraguay rivers. Completing their work on Assumption Day, they call the place Asunción. In 1541 Buenos Aires succumbs to attacks from Indian tribes.
The city of Asunción was founded on August 15—the date on which the Feast of the Assumption ( Asunción in Spanish) of the Virgin Mary is celebrated—in 1537. Until the 17th century, when Buenos Aires assumed the role, Asunción was the most important Spanish colonial city in the eastern part of South America.
May 9, 2018 · Asunción, capital city of Paraguay, founded 15 August 1537 (the Feast of the Assumption) by Juan de Salazar y Espinoza on the east bank of the Paraguay River, 956 miles upstream from the port of Buenos Aires, Asunción became the capital of Paraguay on 14 May 1811. Serving as a base for colonial expeditions and Jesuit missionaries, Asunción ...
Aug 16, 2019 · Foundation of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires was founded twice. A settlement at the present-day site was established briefly in 1536 by conquistador Pedro de Mendoza, but attacks by local indigenous groups forced the settlers to move to Asunción, Paraguay in 1539. By 1541 the site had been burned and abandoned. The harrowing story of the attacks and the overland journey to Asunción was written ...
In 1776 the new Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was created, with its capital in Buenos Aires. That effectively made Asunción and all of Paraguay dependent on Buenos Aires and thus ended the region’s colonial dominance.
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