Cerro Corá is a city and district and located in the
Amambay Department of
Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...
on the
Amambai Mountains. It was created by Law 6555, detaching itself from the municipality of
Pedro Juan Caballero, which is from the center of the departmental capital. Its urban center has the name of Colonia Capitán Raúl Ocampos Rojas, also known as Chirigüelo. It has an area of 1451 km².
See also
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Battle of Cerro Corá
The Battle of Cerro Corá was fought on 1 March 1870 on a hill-surrounded valley of the same name, in the north-east of Paraguay.
Background
In February 1870, an allied column under the command of colonel Bento Martins de Meneses, learned t ...
, 1870
References
Populated places in the Amambay Department
Districts of Paraguay
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