Pilcomayo is a
department
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* 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, ...
in the
Argentine
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
of
Formosa
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is an island country located in East Asia. The main island of Taiwan, formerly known in the Western political circles, press and literature as Formosa, makes up 99% of the land area of the territorie ...
. Its capital is
Clorinda, the second most populous city in the province. Pilcomayo has a surface of 5,342 km
2 and a population of 78,114 according to the . Other communities in Pilcomayo include
Laguna Blanca,
Laguna Naick Neck,
Riacho He-Hé and
Siete Palmas. The
Pilcomayo River National Park (''Parque Nacional Río Pilcomayo'') is about 45 kilometers west of Clorinda, crossed by the
Pilcomayo River
Pilcomayo (in Hispanicized spelling) (Quechua Pillkumayu or Pillku Mayu, ''pillku'' red, ''mayu'' river, "red river", Guarani Ysyry Araguay ) is a river in central South America. At long, it is the longest western tributary of the Paraguay River ...
.
External links
Pilcomayo Travel guide
Departments of Formosa Province
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