Misiones Depairtment
Misiones is a depairtment locatit in the soothren region o Paraguay. Its caipital is San Juan Bautista. The aicht o Paraguay's 17 depairtments, it wis creatit in 1906, then kent as the San Ignacio Depairtment, an wis no gien its present name till 1945. Its current name reflects its status as hame tae several Jesuit Reductions, or missions.
Misiones Depairtment Departamento de Misiones | |
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 Banner  Coat airms | |
 Misiones shown in red | |
| Coordinates: 26°38′S 57°10′W / 26.633°S 57.167°W | |
| Kintra |  Paraguay |
| Region | Eastren Region |
| Established | 1906 |
| Caipital | San Juan Bautista |
| Lairgest ceety | San Ignacio |
| Govrenment | |
| • Govrenor | Arturo Martínez (ANR) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 9556 km2 (3,690 sq mi) |
| Area rank | 12 |
| Population (2007)[1] | |
| • Total | 113,644 |
| • Rank | 14 |
| • Density | 12/km2 (31/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-04 (AST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-03 (ADT) |
| ISO 3166 code | PY-8 |
| Number o Destricts | 10 |
| Website | www.misiones.gov.py |
Locatit in a relatively isolatit pairt o the kintra, far frae the iceety o Asunción an ither important population centers sic as Ciudad del Este an Encarnación, Misiones haes remained ane o the least developit an poorer depairtments in the kintra.
Misiones borders the depairtments o Paraguarí an Caazapá tae the north, Itapúa tae the east, Ñeembucú tae the wast, an the Corrientes Province o Argentinae tae the sooth.
References
eedit- ↑ http://www.dgeec.gov.py/Publicaciones/Biblioteca/Anuario2007/02.%20Poblaci%C3%B3n%20y%20Vivienda.pdf 2007 Statistic by the DGEEC.
Freemit airtins
eedit- SENATUR Archived 2012-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
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