  Almost paracontact Riemannian manifolds of the lowest dimension are studied,
whose paracontact distributions are equipped with an almost paracomplex
structure. These manifolds are constructed as a product of a real line and a
2-dimensional Riemannian space-form. Their metric is obtained in two ways: as a
cone metric and as a hyperbolic extension of the metric of the underlying
paracomplex 2-manifold. The resulting manifolds are studied and characterized
in terms of the classification used and their curvature properties.
