Caazapá Department

The **Caazapá department** () is a department of Paraguay. The capital is the city of Caazapá. Its ISO 3166-2 code  is **PY-06**.

Its name comes from Guarani _ka´aguy jehasapá_, that means "beyond the forest".

People from the department are calle _Caazapeño_ (women: _Caazapeña_).

## Geography

The Caazapá department is in the southeast of the _Oriental_ region. It has an area of . , the department has a population of 151,415 ( of the population of the country) for a population density of .

The Caaguazú mountain range crosses the department from east to west and divides the department in two regions: the northwestern region, with flat lands, and southeastern region, with small hills with forests.

The Tebicuary river flows from east to west in the south of the department; it serves as limit with the Itapúa department. The Tebicuary–mí river serves as limit with the Paraguarí department.

The protected areas in the department are the National park Caaguazú, the Golondrina Private Reserve and the Protected Wildlife Area Susu Island.

### Limits

- To the north: Guairá and  Caaguazú departments.
- To the east: Alto Paraná department.
- To the south: Itapúa department.
- To the west: Paraguarí and Misiones departments.

### Climate

, the total amount of precipitation in the city of Caazapá was . The month with the most precipitation was October with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation was August with .

The average temperature for the year 2012 in Caazapá was . The warmest month, on average, was January with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is June, with an average temperature of .

## Districts

The department is divided in 11 districts:

|class="unsortable"|No.|Districts|Area <small>(km²)</small>|Population <small>(2015)</small>|Density|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|Abaí||||
|2|align="left"|Buena Vista||||
|3|align="left"|Caazapá||||
|4|align="left"|Doctor Moisés S. Bertoni||||
|5|align="left"|Fulgencio Yegros||||
|6|align="left"|General Higinio Morínigo||||
|7|align="left"|Maciel||||
|8|align="left"|San Juan Nepomuceno||||
|9|align="left"|Tavaí||||
|10|align="left"|Yuty||||
|11|align="left"|3 de Mayo||||

## Economy

Farming is the main economic activity in the department. The main crops are cotton and soybean. But cattle raising is the most important activity.

## Related pages

- Departments of Paraguay
- ISO 3166-2:PY

## Other websites

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

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Caazapá
- **other name**: Departamento de Caazapá
- **type**: Departments of Paraguay, Department
- **image skyline**: Humaita 05.jpg
- **image alt**: Ruins of church in Humaitá
- **image caption**: Ruins of church in Humaitá
- **image flag**: Flag of Caazapá Department.svg
- **flag alt**: Flag of Caazapá Department
- **image shield**: Logo de Caazapá.jpg
- **shield size**: 75px
- **image map**: Caazapa in Paraguay.svg
- **map alt**: Caazapá in Paraguay
- **map caption**: Location of Caazapá, in red, in Paraguay
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: Region
- **subdivision name1**: _Oriental_
- **seat type**: Capital city, Capital
- **seat**: Caazapá
- **parts style**: para
- **p1**: 10 (#Districts, See list)
- **leader title**: Governor
- **leader name**: Avelino Dávalos Estigarribia
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 9496
- **population total**: 151415
- **population as of**: 2012
- **population density km2**: auto
- **population demonym**: Caazapeño
- **timezone1**: Atlantic Standard Time Zone, AST
- **utc offset1**: -04
- **timezone1 dst**: ADT
- **utc offset1 dst**: -03
- **iso code**: ISO 3166-2:PY, PY-06
- **website**: [http://www.gobcz.gov.py/portal/ Official website]