National Route 1 (officially PY01, in Spanish, ''Ruta Nacional Número 1'', or simply ''Ruta Uno'') is one of the most important and one of the first
highways
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in
Paraguay
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, which runs from the capital city,
Asunción
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The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of ...
to
Itapua Department's capital,
Encarnación. Crossing the
departments of
Central
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Central may also refer to:
Directions and generalised locations
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,
Paraguarí
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and
Itapua. It starts on the intersection of Choferes del Chaco and Fernando de la Mora Avenues, known as Cuatro Mojones, and ends at the
San Roque González de Santa Cruz Bridge
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, on the
Paraná River
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, traversing .
Distances and important cities
The following table shows the distances traversed by PY01 in each different department, and important cities that it passes by (or near).
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