Luque () is a city in

Central Department Central () is a Departments of Paraguay, department in Paraguay. The capital is Areguá. With 1,883,927 inhabitants, it is the most populated of the 17 departments of Paraguay. It is also the smallest department, with a total area of . Geogra ...

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 ...

, part of the

Gran Asunción Greater Asunción () is the metropolitan area of the capital city of Paraguay, Asunción. It consists of twenty cities: Asunción itself, the capital, and the surrounding cities in Central Department. One in three Paraguayans live in this metrop ...

metropolitan area. Both 1635 and 1750 have been recorded as dates of its founding. It was temporarily the capital of Paraguay in 1868 during the

Paraguayan War The Paraguayan War (, , ), also known as the War of the Triple Alliance (, , ), was a South American war that lasted from 1864 to 1870. It was fought between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, the Empire of Brazil, and Uruguay. It wa ...

before relocation to

San Estanislao San Estanislao de Kostka, usually referred to as San Estanislao and colloquially as Santaní, is a city and district in the department of San Pedro, Paraguay. History San Estanislao was founded on November 13, 1749 by Father Sebastián de Yeg ...

. The city is home to Paraguay's main international airport,

Silvio Pettirossi International Airport Silvio Pettirossi International Airport is an international airport in Luque, Paraguay, which serves Paraguay's capital city, Asunción, and indirectly serves the nearby city of Clorinda, Formosa, in Argentina. The airport is named after Paragua ...

and the

Ñu Guasú Park The Ñu Guasú Park (Spanish: ''Parque Ñu Guasú'') is an urban park located in Luque, in the Greater Asuncion area, in Paraguay, near the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport. It was turned into a recreational park covering 25 hectares. It is ...

, which is where the Paraguayan Olympic Committee is also located. The continental

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of association football in South America,

CONMEBOL CONMEBOL ( ) or CSF (; ; ), is the continental governing body of football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations. The oldest continental confederation in the world, its headquarters are located in Luque, Parag ...

, has its headquarters approximately 3 minutes from the airport, which hosts the South American Football Museum. The

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took place in Luque. When it existed, ARPA – Aerolíneas Paraguayas had its headquarters in the ARPA Terminal on the grounds of the airport."Directory: World airlines." ''

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It is a center of production of guitars and

Paraguayan harp The Paraguayan harp is the national instrument of Paraguay, the result of the confluence of European and Guarani musical cultures. Derived from the classical angular harp, introduced during the Spanish colonization in the Jesuit Guarani Mis ...

s as well as ''Filigranas'',

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and

silver Silver is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag () and atomic number 47. A soft, whitish-gray, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. ...

filigree Filigree (also less commonly spelled ''filagree'', and formerly written ''filigrann'' or ''filigrene'') is a form of intricate metalwork used in jewellery and other small forms of metalwork. In jewellery, it is usually of gold and silver, m ...

jewelry Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, ring (jewellery), rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the ...

including the seven-band ring ''Carretón de Siete Ramales''.

Toponymy

The name Luque is first mentioned in 1635, in an act of the Cabildo of

Asunción Asunción (, ) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. 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 Asunción in the north ...

when the colonial governor of the

Governorate of Paraguay The Governorate of Paraguay (), originally called the Governorate of Guayrá, was a governorate of the Spanish Empire and part of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Its seat was the city of Asunción; its territory roughly encompassed the modern day cou ...

, Martín Ledesma de Valderrama, granted two leagues of land to a Spanish Captain named Miguel Antón de Luque in a place near Asunción known as ''las Salinas''. According to the act this was the place where Captain Antón de Luque had been working an

Encomienda The ''encomienda'' () was a Spanish Labour (human activity), labour system that rewarded Conquistador, conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples. In theory, the conquerors provided the labourers with benefits, including mil ...

for more than twenty years. A century later, in 1743, another Miguel de Luque, a descendant of the first mentioned, made a donation by testament of a section of those lands to the

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who built a chapel for the devotion of the

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in 1750 - 1755, and from that time the old name of Salinas was changed to Valle de Luque. In 1781, governor Pedro Melo de Portugal made the first administrative division of the Governorate of Paraguay into six towns and designated the district with the name Partido de Luque.

Geography

The city of Luque extends from

Ypacaraí Lake Ypacaraí Lake is a major body of water located in Paraguay, about east of the capital, Asunción. The lake lies in the western part of the Asunción-Sapucai-Villarrica graben, a tectonic depression from the Mesozoic Era, and drains to the nor ...

to the western bank of the

Paraguay River The Paraguay River (''Ysyry Paraguái'' in Guarani language, Guarani, ''Rio Paraguai'' in Portuguese language, Portuguese, ''Río Paraguay'' in Spanish language, Spanish) is a major river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Bol ...

. Luque is located to the East of

and borders the following cities: * To the North with Mariano Roque Alonso,

Limpio San José de los Campos Limpios de Tapúa, more commonly referred to simply as Limpio (, is a Districts of Paraguay, district and city located in the Central, Paraguay, Central Department of Paraguay, from Asunción. The city is bordered by three ...

and Nueva Colombia * To the South with Fernando de la Mora and

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* To the East with

Areguá Areguá is a creative city and the capital of Central Department in Paraguay. It is known for its production of strawberry products, pottery, colonial architecture and historic cobblestone streets. The district lies between the Ypacaraí Lake and t ...

* To the West with

* To the Southeast with

Capiatá Capiatá () is a city and a district in Central Department, Paraguay. It is the only city in Central that borders seven cities: Aregua, Itaugua, Juan Augusto Saldívar, Luque Luque () is a city in Central Department of Paraguay, part ...

Demography

Luque is the third-most populated city of Paraguay, after the

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and

Ciudad del Este Ciudad del Este (, Spanish for Eastern City; often shortened as CDE) is the second-largest city in Paraguay and capital of the Alto Paraná Department, situated on the Paraná River. It is located 327 km east of Asunción, the capital, and i ...

. It is the most populated city of the Central Department of Paraguay.

Twin towns

Luque is twinned with: * Ituzaingó, Buenos Aires, Argentina * San Juan Bautista, Paraguay *

Luque Luque () is a city in Central Department of Paraguay, part of the Gran Asunción metropolitan area. Both 1635 and 1750 have been recorded as dates of its founding. It was temporarily the capital of Paraguay in 1868 during the Paraguayan War ...

, Spain

Notable people

* José Luis Chilavert *

Egni Eckert Egni Analia Almirón Eckert, simply known as Egni Eckert or Egny Eckert, is a Paraguayan model and beauty pageant titleholder who represented her country in the Miss World 2010 pageant held in Sanya, China, placing among the Top 25 finalists. E ...

* Raúl Vicente Amarilla * Pablo César Aguilar * Osvaldo Martínez *

Hilarión Osorio Hilarión Osorio (1928 – 1990) was a Paraguayan football forward who played for Paraguay in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.

Gallery

File:Asunción - Edificio CSF.JPG,

Headquarters, in Luque, Paraguay File:Retablo papal.jpg, The main altarpiece made of maize,

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and coconut, especially for the 2015 visit by Pope Francis to Paraguay, in Luque File:Monumento Cooperación Paraguay Korea 1 - panoramio.jpg, The

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Cooperation Monument, in Luque File:Hinchada Sportivo Luqueño.jpg, ''Chanchohooligans'', one of many

Sportivo Luqueño Club Sportivo Luqueño is a Paraguayan football club, based in the city of Luque on the outskirts of the capital Asunción. It currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División, the country's top tier of football, where it has won thrice, in 19 ...

's groups of fans File:Paraguayan Air Force.jpg, Paraguayan Air Force, in Luque File:Lapacho rosa en floración - panoramio.jpg, A '' Tajy'' at Ñu Guasú Park, Luque, Paraguay

References

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