National Monument - Cerro Cora National Park

Apparently picking a simultaneous fight with Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay (outnumbering yourself 10 to 1) and resulting in the death of half the population and the loss of 26% of your land - oops!) makes you the perfect candidate to be a national hero.

Perusing Paraguay

July 9th 2007
The latest stage of our travels took us off the gringo trail into the less explored country of Paraguay. For some inexplicable reason backpackers don't seem to have a very high opinion of Paraguay as demonstrated the night before we left Brazil. We'd just returned from the Pantenal and were relaxing in Campo Grande with 2 others from our trip. Another traveller started chatting to us. We did the ... read more

South America » Paraguay » Encarnacion

In the disastrous War of the Triple Alliance (1865-70), Paraguay lost two-thirds of all adult males and much of its territory. It stagnated economically for the next half century. In the Chaco War of 1932-35, large, economically important areas were ... ... read more

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