Ñeembucú Depairtment

Ñeembucú (Guaraní: Ñe'ẽmbuku) is a depairtment locatit in the sooth o the Eastren Region o Paraguay. The caipital is Pilar. Naur the hale o the department is landwart, an is hame tae some o the auldest an best-preserved Jesuit ruins, that is situate naur the toun o Humaitá.

Ñeembucú Depairtment

Departamento de Ñeembucú
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Coordinates: 26°52′S 58°18′W / 26.867°S 58.300°W / -26.867; -58.300
Kintra Paraguay
RegionEastren Region
Established1776
CaipitalPilar
Boroughs
Govrenment
 • GovrenorPedro Alliana Rodriguez (Naitional Republican Association)
Area
 • Total12147 km2 (4,690 sq mi)
Area rank10
Population
 • Total82,846
 • Rank16
 • Density6.8/km2 (18/sq mi)
Time zoneAST
 • Summer (DST)UTC-03 (ADT)
ISO 3166 codePY-12
Nummer o Destricts16

Destricts eedit

The depairtment is dividit in 16 destricts:

  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

Land eedit

The terrain in Ñeembucú is markedly flat, covered maistly in flat, gressy fields anerlie broken bi the occasional wetland swamp or green "monte". Montes, maugre their name, arnae mountains at aw, but patches o dense trees an brush that provide shade tae the cattle that graze on the flat plains surroondin them. Naur aw o the land in Ñeembucú is uised for grazin (cattle, sheep) or ither kins o agriculture.

Borders eedit

Tae the wast, Ñeembucú is limitit bi the Rio Paraguay an Argentinae, tae the sooth bi the Rio Paraná an Argentinea, tae the north bi the Central department, an tae the east bi the departments o Paraguarí an Misiones.

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