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Caacupé
Caacupé (; Guaraní language, Guarani: Ka'akupe , literally: "Behind the Mount") is a city and district in Paraguay. It is the capital of the Department (subnational entity), department of Cordillera Department, Cordillera. The town was founded in 1770 by Carlos Murphy, a grenadier in the service of King Charles III of Spain, although a first settlement existed here from the 17th century. The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Caacupé. Caacupé is best known as the site of The Virgin of Caacupé, Saint Patron of Paraguay. The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles, Caacupé stands in the centre of the town. A major religious festival is held annually on 8 December in honour of the statuette "Our Lady of the Miracles". This statuette, carved in the 16th century by a devout convert, was miraculously saved from a great flood, and numerous miracles are ascribed to it. During the rest of the year Caacupé is a quiet provincial town. It has a park with amusements. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caacupé District
Caacupé (; Guarani: Ka'akupe , literally: "Behind the Mount") is a city and district in Paraguay. It is the capital of the department of Cordillera. The town was founded in 1770 by Carlos Murphy, a grenadier in the service of King Charles III of Spain Charles III (; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza, as Charles I (1731–1735); King of Naples, as Charles VII; and King of Sicily, as Charles III (or V) (1735� ..., although a first settlement existed here from the 17th century. The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Caacupé. Caacupé is best known as the site of The Virgin of Caacupé, Saint Patron of Paraguay. The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles, Caacupé stands in the centre of the town. A major religious festival is held annually on 8 December in honour of the statuette "Our Lady of the Miracles". This statuette, carved in the 16th century by a devout convert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordillera Department
Cordillera () is a department in Paraguay. The capital is the city of Caacupé. History During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this area of the country was going through a serious crisis due to population bellicosity of the Indians from Chaco. The villagers from Tobatí located north of the river Pirapo then called, had to migrate south for the continue attacks by Mbaye-guaicurúes. The residents of Altos, Paraguay, Altos and Atyrá created their current settlements in the territory of this department. There were also some settler farmers who were scattered in existing territories Arroyos y Esteros, Primero de Marzo, 1 de Marzo, Caraguatay (Paraguay), Caraguatay and Piribebuy. Towards the end of the eighteenth century these small towns were expanding, consolidating the villages located north of the department as Arroyos y Esteros Eusebio Ayala District, Eusebio Ayala (then called town of San Roque). Once the Paraguayan War, began a process of founding of major towns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Caacupé
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caacupé () is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Archdiocese of Asunción, which covers all and only Paraguay. Its cathedral episcopal see is a Minor Basilica and National Shrine: Catedral Basílica Nuestra Señora de los Milagros, dedicated to Our Lady of Miracles, in the city of Caacupé, in Cordillera Department. History * On 2 August 1960, the Territorial Prelature of Caacupé was established on territories split off from the Archdiocese of Asunción (still its Metropolitan) and from the Diocese of Concepción * Promoted on 29 March 1967 as Diocese of Caacupé * It enjoyed Papal visits from Pope John Paul II in May 1988 and Pope Francis in July 2015. Statistics As per 2014, it pastorally served 262,724 Catholics (93.0% of 282,481 total) on 4,984 km2 in 20 parishes and 2 missions with 29 priests (24 diocesan, 5 religious), 2 deacons, 44 lay religious (7 brothers, 37 sisters), 6 seminarians. Leader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathedral Basilica Of Our Lady Of Miracles, Caacupé
The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles (), also Caacupé Cathedral, is the religious building that functions as the Catholic cathedral of the city of Caacupé, Paraguay, and also as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Caacupé that was created as a territorial prelature in 1960 and was promoted to its current status in 1967 through the bull "Rerum catholicarum" of Pope Paul VI. The Sanctuary of the Virgin of Caacupé is a Catholic basilica in Paraguay that was inaugurated on 8 December 1765 and became a place of pilgrimage for many local believers. Caacupé is considered the spiritual capital of Paraguay because it houses the largest sanctuary in the country. The temple, in addition to its status as a cathedral, is considered as a Catholic national sanctuary and minor basilica . It is under the pastoral responsibility of Bishop Ricardo Jorge Valenzuela Ríos. The church has been visited by two different popes: John Paul II in May 1988 and Francis Francis may refer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of around 6.1 million, nearly 2.3 million of whom live in the Capital city, capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro area. Spanish conquistadores arrived in 1524, and in 1537 established the city of Asunción, the first capital of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata. During the 17th century, Paraguay was the center of Reductions, Jesuit missions, where the native Guaraní people were converted to Christianity and introduced to European culture. After the Suppression of the Society of Jesus, expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish territories in 1767, Paraguay increasingly became a peripheral colony. Following Independence of Paraguay, independence from Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities And Towns In Paraguay
This is a list of towns and cities in Paraguay. A *Abaí *Acahay *Aguaray, Paraguay, Aguaray *Alberdi, Paraguay, Alberdi *Alto Verá *Altos, Paraguay, Altos *Areguá *Arroyito, Paraguay, Arroyito *Asunción *Atyrá *Ayolas B *Bella Vista, Amambay *Benjamín Aceval C *Caacupé *Caaguazú District, Caaguazú *Caapucú *Caazapá *Cambyreta *Capiatá *Capiíbary *Capitán Bado *Capitán Mauricio José Troche *Capitán Meza *Capitán Miranda *Caraguatay, Paraguay, Caraguatay *Carapeguá *Carayaó *Carmen del Paraná *Cerrito, Paraguay, Cerrito *Ciudad del Este *Concepción, Paraguay, Concepción *Coronel Bogado *Coronel Martínez *Coronel Oviedo *Curuguaty D *Desmochados *Doctor Botrell *Doctor Cecilio Báez *Doctor Eulogio Estigarribia *Doctor Juan Manuel Frutos *Doctor Moisés Bertoni *Doctor Pedro P. Peña E *Edelira *Encarnación, Paraguay, Encarnación *Escobar, Paraguay, Escobar F *Fernando de la Mora, Paraguay, Fernando de la Mora *Fernheim Colony *Filadelfia *Fuerte Olimpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departments Of Paraguay
Paraguay consists of 17 department (administrative division), departments (; singular – ''departamento)'' and Asunción, one capital district (''distrito capital''). The country is divided into two non-official regions: The "Occidental Region" or Chaco (Boquerón, Alto Paraguay and Presidente Hayes), and the "Oriental Region" or Parana (other departments and the capital district). List See also * ISO 3166-2:PY * List of regions of Paraguay by Human Development Index * Ranked list of Paraguayan departments External links * {{Paraguay topics Departments of Paraguay, Subdivisions of Paraguay Lists of administrative divisions, Paraguay, Departments First-level administrative divisions by country, Departments, Paraguay Paraguay geography-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time In Paraguay
Paraguay observes UTC−03:00 year-round. Until 2024, it observed UTC−04:00 for standard time (PYT) and UTC−03:00 for daylight saving time / summer time (PYST). Daylight saving time Paraguay used to observe DST under decree 1867 of March 5, 2004. DST ended on the third Sunday of March and started on the first Sunday of October. In 2010, Paraguay changed its own DST rules because of the energy crisis, ending DST on the second Sunday in April, a month later than previous years. In 2013 Paraguay changed the ending date of daylight saving to the fourth Sunday in March. The starting date remains unchanged. On 5 August 2020, an initiative arose to keep the daylight saving time as the official year-round time, with the intention to align Paraguay with neighbors Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Legislative efforts to achieve this continued unsuccessfully until a law was passed by the Congress of Paraguay in September 2024. See also *Daylight saving time by country Daylight saving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guaraní Language
Guarani (Avañe'ẽ), also called Paraguayan Guarani, is a language of South America that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch of the Tupian language family. It is one of the two official languages of Paraguay (along with Spanish), where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and where half of the rural population are monolingual speakers of the language. Variants of the language are spoken by communities in neighboring countries including parts of northeastern Argentina, southeastern Bolivia and southwestern Brazil. It is a second official language of the Argentine province of Corrientes since 2004 and in the Brazilian city of Tacuru since 2010. Guarani is also one of the three official languages of Mercosur, alongside Spanish and Portuguese. Guarani is one of the most widely spoken Native American languages and remains commonly used among the Paraguayan people and neighboring communities. This is unique among American languages; language shift towards Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department (subnational Entity)
A department (, ) is an administrative division, administrative or political division in several countries. Departments are the first-level divisions of 11 countries, nine in the Americas and two in Africa. An additional 10 countries use departments as second-level divisions, eight in Africa, and one each in the Americas and Europe. As a territorial entity, "department" was first used by the French Revolutionary governments, apparently to emphasize that each territory was simply an administrative sub-division of the united sovereign nation. (The term "department", in other contexts, means an administrative sub-division of a larger organization.) This attempt to de-emphasize local political identity contrasts strongly with countries divided into "states" (implying local sovereignty). The division of France into departments was a project particularly identified with the French revolutionary leader the Abbé Sieyès, although it had already been frequently discussed and written abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles III Of Spain
Charles III (; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza, as Charles I (1731–1735); King of Naples, as Charles VII; and King of Sicily, as Charles III (or V) (1735–1759). He was the fourth son of Philip V of Spain and the eldest son of Philip's second wife, Elisabeth Farnese. He was a proponent of enlightened absolutism and regalism. In 1731, the 15-year-old Charles became Duke of Parma and Piacenza following the death of his childless grand-uncle Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma, Antonio Farnese. In 1734, at the age of 18, he led Spanish troops in a bold and almost entirely bloodless march down Italy to seize the Kingdom of Naples and Kingdom of Sicily and enforce the Spanish claim to their thrones. In 1738, he married the Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony, daughter of Augustus III of Poland, who was an educated, cultured woman. The couple had 13 children, eight of whom reached adulthood. They resided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Virgin Of Caacupé
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
