Paraguarí Department

The **Paraguarí department** () is a department of Paraguay. The capital is the city of Paraguarí. Its ISO 3166-2 code  is **PY-09**.

## History

The territory of this department is in a valley formerly called "Yarigua'a" that was part of the mission of Jesuit priests during the colonization.

At the end of the 16th century, the Franciscan missionaries founded the city of Yaguarón with Guarani people. More towns were founded on which today form part of this department:
- Carapeguá (1725)
- Quiindy (1733)
- Ybycuí (1766)
- Pirayú (1769)
- Paraguarí (1775), the present capital of the department
- Quyquyhó (1776)
- Ybytimí and Acahay (1783)
- Caapucú (1787)

The department was created in 1935. In 1945, the old department of Quyyndy was made part of Paraguarí.

## Geography

The Paraguarí department is in the southwest of the _Oriental_ region. It is one of the smallest of the departments of Paraguay, with an area of . It has a population of 239,633 for a population density of .

### Limits

- To the north: Cordillera and Caaguazú departments.
- To the east: Guairá and Caazapá departments.
- To the south: Misiones department.
- To the west: Ñeembucú and Central departments.

## Districts

The department is divided in 17 districts:

|class="unsortable"|No.|Districts|Area <small>(km²)</small>|Population <small>(2002)</small>|Density|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|Acahay||||
|2|align="left"|Caapucú||||
|3|align="left"|Carapeguá||||
|4|align="left"|Escobar||||
|5|align="left"|General Bernardino Caballero||||
|6|align="left"|La Colmena||||
|7|align="left"|Mbuyapey||||
|8|align="left"|Paraguarí||||
|9|align="left"|Pirayú||||
|10|align="left"|Quiindy||||
|11|align="left"|Quyquyhó||||
|12|align="left"|San Roque González de Santa Cruz||||
|13|align="left"|Sapucai||||
|14|align="left"|Tebicuary-mí||||
|15|align="left"|Yaguarón||||
|16|align="left"|Ybycuí||||
|17|align="left"|Ybytymí||||

## Related pages

- Departments of Paraguay
- ISO 3166-2:PY

## Other websites

- Gobernación de Paraguarí website
- Statoids - Departments of Paraguay
- Secretaria Nacional de Turismo

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Paraguarí
- **other name**: Departamento de Paraguarí
- **type**: Departments of Paraguay, Department
- **image skyline**: Cordillera de Paraguari.jpg
- **image alt**: Hills around Paraguarí
- **image caption**: Hills around Paraguarí
- **image flag**: Bandera_del_Departamento_de_Paraguarí.JPG
- **flag alt**: Flag of Paraguarí department
- **image map**: Paraguari in Paraguay.svg
- **map alt**: Paraguarí in Paraguay
- **map caption**: Location of Paraguarí, in red, in Paraguay
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: Region
- **subdivision name1**: _Oriental_
- **seat type**: Capital city, Capital
- **seat**: Paraguarí
- **parts style**: para
- **p1**: 17 (#Districts, See list)
- **leader title**: Governor
- **leader name**: Miguel Jorge Cuevas
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 8705
- **population total**: 239633
- **population as of**: 2012
- **population density km2**: auto
- **population demonym**: Paraguariense
- **timezone1**: Atlantic Standard Time Zone, AST
- **utc offset1**: -04
- **timezone1 dst**: ADT
- **utc offset1 dst**: -03
- **iso code**: ISO 3166-2:PY, PY-09
- **website**: [http://www.paraguari.org/ Official website]