Trips to Paraguay

Trips to Paraguay        

        Paraguay is, without a doubt, one of the countries more not knowing of visited Latin America and therefore less from the tourist point of view. Possibly this must to the fact that it lacks attractions of first magnitude, in the style of Machu Picchu or similar; nevertheless, their enchantments are many and varied.

        We are speaking of “a small” country in American terms, with six million inhabitants and one extension of 406,000 km2s that, by their location and characteristics, turn out very interesting to be visited in conjunction with the near Cataracts of the Iguazú, the Brazilian Pantanal, the Argentine Provinces of Missions (Jesuíticas Reductions) and Between Rivers (Matting of the Iberá), and the Bolivian East (the Chiquitanía). That was the geographic scope where the guaraní civilization was concentrated at the time, reduced nowadays practically to the territory of the Republic of Paraguay, at least in one of its key elements as it is the guaraní language.

        Paraguay is, therefore, the epicenter of a beautiful central zone of South America where one can still make contact with enemy with that deep America so uninhabited, so little journeyed as the Chaco or the Pantanal, and so generous in its expressions of fauna and flora. Its Asuncio'n capital, to borders of the Paraguay River, that has million four hundred thousand inhabitants, is an amiable, boisterous and calm city simultaneously, equipped well with hotel establishments.

        A country divided in two by the Paraguay River: the Eastern part green, humid and is more densely populated, and the Western Part barren, dry and more is vacated. But it is also a country united in the extensive use of his indigenous language; in its liking by the consumption of tereré in portable thermus; in its devotion by the national selection of soccer, music, the dance, the guitar, the ARPA; in the love to her flag, its employer the Virgin of Caacupé and to the imagination, as us she has described his illustrious writer to it, Augusto Nibbles Coarse.

        Although only outside to observe the sky starred from the immense solitude of the barren Chaco, to contemplate the evocative ruins of the jesuíticas missions, or to admire waters of its enormous rivers, or those of the Prey of Itaipú, one of the majors engineer installations of the world, deserves well to include to Paraguay in a route by this zone of the central South America.