San Pedro Department, Paraguay

The **San Pedro department** () is a department of Paraguay. The capital is the city of San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú. Its ISO 3166-2 code  is **PY-02**.

The name **San Pedro** ("Saint Peter") was given after its capital.

## History

During the 17th and 18th centuries there was much problems with the people in the region. To help for the economic growth, three towns were started: San Estanislao (1749), Villa del Rosario (1786) and San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú (1786).

San Pedro, the second department of the country, was created by law in 1906, and had the territories of Itacurubí del Rosario, Santa Rosa del Aguaray, Tacuatí, Unión, Ygatimi and Curuguaty, as well as the area of the present Canindeyú department. Its limits were given  finally by the Law 426 of 26 December 1973.

## Geography

The San Pedro department is in the north central part of the _Oriental_ region. It has an area of , the largest of the _Oriental_ region, with a population of 360,094 for a population density of .

### Limits

- To the north: Concepción and Amambay departments.
- To the east: Amambay and Canindeyú departments.
- To the south: Caaguazú and Cordillera departments.
- To the west: Presidente Hayes department, separated by the Paraguay river.

### Rivers

The main river in the department, and of Paraguay, is the Paraguay that makes the western border of the department.

Other rivers are the Jejuí Guazú,  long, and the Ypané,  long.

### Climate

, the total amount of precipitation in the city of San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú was . The month with the most precipitation was April with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation was August with .

The average temperature for the year 2014 in San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú was . The warmest month, on average, was February with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is July, with an average temperature of .

## Districts

The department is divided in 20 districts:

|class="unsortable"|No.|Districts|Area <small>(km²)</small>|Population <small>(2015)</small>|Density|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|Antequera||||
|2|align="left"|Capiibary||||
|3|align="left"|Choré||||
|4|align="left"|General Elizardo Aquino||||
|5|align="left"|General Isidoro Resquín||||
|6|align="left"|Guayaibí||||
|7|align="left"|Itacurubí del Rosario||||
|8|align="left"|Liberación||||
|9|align="left"|Lima||||
|10|align="left"|Nueva Germania||||
|11|align="left"|San Estanislao||||
|12|align="left"|San Pablo||||
|13|align="left"|San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú||||
|14|align="left"|Santa Rosa del Aguaray||||
|15|align="left"|Tacuatí||||
|16|align="left"|Unión||||
|17|align="left"|Veinticinco de Diciembre||||
|18|align="left"|Villa del Rosario||||
|19|align="left"|Yataity del Norte||||
|20|align="left"|Yrybucuá||||

## Related pages

- Departments of Paraguay
- ISO 3166-2:PY

## Other websites

- Gobernación de San Pedro website
- Statoids - Departments of Paraguay

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: San Pedro
- **other name**: Departamento de San Pedro
- **type**: Departments of Paraguay, Department
- **image skyline**: Peaje en 25-12.jpg
- **image alt**: A toll in Veinticinco de Diciembre by the entrance of San Pedro
- **image caption**: A Toll road, toll by the entrance of San Pedro
- **image flag**: Bandera del Departamento de San Pedro.JPG
- **flag alt**: Flag of San Pedro department
- **image map**: San Pedro in Paraguay.svg
- **map alt**: San Pedro in Paraguay
- **map caption**: Location of San Pedro, in red, in Paraguay
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: Region
- **subdivision name1**: _Oriental_
- **seat type**: Capital city, Capital
- **seat**: San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú
- **parts style**: para
- **p1**: 20 (#Districts, See list)
- **leader title**: Governor
- **leader name**: Vicente Rodríguez Arévalos
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 20002
- **population total**: 360094
- **population as of**: 2012
- **population density km2**: auto
- **population demonym**: Sampedrano
- **timezone1**: Atlantic Standard Time Zone, AST
- **utc offset1**: -04
- **timezone1 dst**: ADT
- **utc offset1 dst**: -03
- **iso code**: ISO 3166-2:PY, PY-02
- **website**: [http://sanpedro.gov.py/ Official website]