Mayor Pablo Lagerenza is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in the
Alto Paraguay
Alto Paraguay (; ''Upper Paraguay'') is the least populous as well as a sparsely populated Department (subnational entity), department of Paraguay. The capital is the town of Fuerte Olimpo.
In 1992, the Chaco Department was merged with Alto Para ...
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
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 ...
. It was once the capital of the former
Chaco (Department)
Chaco may refer to:
Places in South America
* Chaco Basin, spanning Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay
* Chaco Department, a historical department in Paraguay and proposed in Bolivia
* Chaco Province, a province in the northeastern part of Argenti ...
department, consisting today of the western part of Alto Paraguay.
Sources
World Gazeteer: Paraguay– World-Gazetteer.com
Populated places in the Alto Paraguay Department
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