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Cerro Corá is a city and district and located in the
Amambay Department Amambay () is a Department (subnational entity), department in Paraguay. The capital is Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay, Pedro Juan Caballero. The name comes from the name of a part of the Caaguazú Cordillera, "Amambai Mountains". Amambay is t ...
of
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 Boli ...
on the
Amambai Mountains The Amambaí Mountains (Serra de Amambai, Cordillera de Amambai) are a low range of mountains along part of the Brazil-Paraguay border. In southwest Brasil, it is found in the western Mato Grosso do Sul Mato Grosso do Sul ( ) is one of Federativ ...
. 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 Chiriguelo. It has an area of 1451 km2.


See also

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Battle of Cerro Corá The Battle of Cerro Corá () was the last battle of the Paraguayan War, fought on 1 March 1870, in the vicinity of Cerro Corá, northeast of Paraguay's capital Asunción. It is known for being the battle in which Francisco Solano López, Par ...
, 1870


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Populated places in the Amambay Department Districts of Paraguay {{Paraguay-geo-stub