It also provided liberal fiscal incentives for companies to develop specific areas of the country, especially the departments of Alto Paraguay, Nueva Asunción, Chaco, and Boquerón.

He ascended the Paraná as far as the present-day city of Asunción, and also explored up the Paraguay River.

The city's cathedral, named Virgen de la Asunción, is also located on the Zocalo.

It is also known as the " white city " due to the color of the most of colonial houses and places in the city downtown, where several churches are located, such as San Francisco, San José, Belén, Santo Domingo, San Agustín, and the Catedral Basílica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, known locally as " La Catedral ".

There work lime ovens and shipments to Asunción are also made.

Until the 19th century ( circa ) it received the denomination of La Guayra o Guaira or also La Pineria ( the last one for the forests of cury ) the region was under the jurisdiction of Cabildo de Asunción on the east of the Paraguay river until the line of the Tratado de Tordesillas.

There is also Filial Faculties of the Asunción National University and North University.

Beside that he was also the Lord of numerous Lordships, Alcalderías and honourable charges: Señor de los Estados de la Campana de Albalat y la Serena, de Lago de Albufera ( Valencia ), and of the Villages of Huetor de Santillan y Veas, Señor de los Sotos de Roma y Aldovea, Perpetual Regedor ( Rector ) of the Villages of Madrid, Nava del Rey and Reus, and the Cities of Burgos, Segovia, Valencia, Murcia, Ronda, Manresa, Guadalajara, Gerona, Barcelona, Peñíscola, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Lérida, Toledo, Toro, Zamora, Asunción de Paraguay, Buenos Aires and México ; preeminent Veinte y Quatro ( Twenty-Four ) of Jerez de la Frontera, Sevilla and Jerez de los Caballeros ; Almerante-Mayor ( Admiral-Major ) of Spain and the Indies ; Captain-General of the Royal Armies, Captain of the Body Guards, Hermano Mayor ( Greater Brother ) and Perpetual Alcalde of the Holy and Royal Old Brotherhood of Toledo, with voice, vote and Presidency ; President of the Royal Colegial Body of the Hidalgos of the Nobility of Madrid ( 1804 ), Gentleman of the Chamber of His Catholic Majesty, with exercise, Counsilor of State, Prime-Minister of King Don Carlos IV, Commander of Valencia del Ventoso, Rivera and Acheucal in the Order of Santiago, Knight of the Order of Santiago ( 1790 ), Knight of the Renowned Order of the Golden Fleece, Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, Bailiff of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, etc.

One may also take the bus from Asunción to Pilar and transfer to an interurban bus that serves Humaitá.

On the other hand, the Viceroyalty of Peru required all commerce to be performed through Lima's port, which restrained the Buenos Aires natural port potential economy, a problem that also caused large contraband activities in the region, especially in Asunción, Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

It was also reported that Colón de Santa Fé and Primera División Paraguaya club Olimpia Asunción were also chasing Santa Cruz.

The main street leads to the Iglesia de la Asunción, in whose museum the tapestries are kept, and also a painting by El Greco.

He also founded the reduction of Concepción de la Sierra Candelaria ( 1619 ), Candelaria ( 1627 ), San Javier, Yapeyú ( now in the province of Corrientes San Nicolás, Asunción del Iyuí and Caaró ( now in Brazil ).

One of the main attractions is the Central Plaza, which contains: the Central Park, known as Parque Concordia, surrounded by City Hall ( a modern style building with a little resemblance of art deco, rebuilt after a fire in the 1950s ), the town's main church, Iglesia de La Asunción, which is over 100 years old, and the Pasaje Concordia, also known as " the new place in town ," that was restored in the early twenty first century and is a pedestrian-only street.

The Office of Direct Contribution ( Real Estate Taxes ) was created and also the Municipality of Asunción.

He was professor of Civic Law and Morals in the Colegio Nacional de la Capital and Law School of the Asunción ’ s National University, where he also taught Civil Law.

* The district is also the home of the Guaraní International Airport, the second biggest airport of the country after the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in Luque ( suburb of the capital Asunción ).

TAM Airlines, also known as Transportes Aéreos del Mercosur S. A., formerly known as TAM Mercosur and LAP ( Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas ), is the flag carrier and the national airline of Paraguay with its headquarters in Asunción, Paraguay.

García's group discovered Iguazú Falls, crossed the Río Paraná and arrived at the site of Asunción, future capital of the country, thirteen years before it was founded.

Asunción subsequently became the nucleus of a Spanish province that encompassed a large portion of southern South America — so large, in fact, that it was dubbed " La Provincia Gigante de Indias ".

A radical army nearly captured Asunción and was repulsed, ironically, only with the help of Indian troops from the Jesuit reducciones.

In 1617, the Río de la Plata Province was divided into two smaller provinces: Paraguay, with Asunción as its capital, and Río de la Plata, with headquarters in Buenos Aires.

Espínola's reception in Asunción was less than cordial, partly because he was closely linked to rapacious policies of the ex-governor, Lázaro de Rivera, who had arbitrarily shot hundreds of his citizens until he was forced from office in 1805.

Discontent spread, and the last straw was the request by the Asunción cabildo for Portuguese military support against Belgrano's forces, who were encamped just over the border in present-day Argentina.

Although he was dogged by suggestions that his father, a Brazilian tobacco expert, was a mulatto, Francia was awarded a coveted chair of theology at the Seminary of San Carlos in Asunción in 1790.

From his retirement in his modest chacra ( cottage or hut ) at Ibaray, near Asunción, he told countless ordinary citizens who came to visit him that their revolution had been betrayed, that the change in government had only traded a Spanish-born elite for a criollo one, and that the present government was incompetent and mismanaged.

When the junta learned that a porteño diplomat was on his way to Asunción, it panicked because it realized it was not competent to negotiate without Francia.

His decision was greeted with derision in Asunción.

The victim of countless detentions, torture, and persecution, Laíno was forced into exile in 1982 following the publication of a critical book about ex-Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who was assassinated in Asunción in 1980.

A military training agreement with Asunción, giving immunity to US soldiers, caused some concern after media reports initially reported that a base housing 20, 000 US soldiers was being built at Mariscal Estigarribia within 200 km of Argentina and Bolivia, and 300 km of Brazil, near an airport which could receive large planes ( B-52, C-130 Hercules, etc.

Until the Spanish established Asunción in 1537, economic activity in Paraguay was limited to the subsistence agriculture of the Guaraní Indians.

Paraguay was occupied by its enemies in 1870 ; the countryside was in virtual ruin, the labor force was decimated, peasants were pushed into the environs of Asunción from the east and south, and the modernization of the preceding three decades was undone.

In response to the situation, a military training agreement with Asunción ( Paraguay ), giving immunity to US soldiers, caused some concern after media reports initially reported that a base housing 20, 000 US soldiers was being built at Mariscal Estigarribia.

With Buenos Aires in ruins, Asunción became the base for the reconquest of Argentina.

Yaguarón is a city in Paraguay, located at the base of Yaguarón Hill in the Yaguarón District of Paraguarí Department, from the capital Asunción.

The Sakishima Islands beyond the straights are antipodal to Paraguay, from the Brazilian border almost to Asunción, with Ishigaki overlapping San Isidro de Curuguaty, and the uninhabited Senkaku Islands surrounding Villarrica.

Transcontinental shipments of silver passed through Asunción on their way from Peru to Europe.

In addition to the Spaniards, Asunción included immigrants, mostly men, from present-day France, Italy, Germany, England, and Portugal.

The most prosperous families of Asunción, whose yerba maté and tobacco plantations competed directly with the Jesuits, initially led this revolt but as the movement attracted support from poor farmers in the interior, the rich abandoned it and soon asked the royal authorities to restore order.

Spanish merchants borrowed from British merchants to finance their purchases ; merchants in Buenos Aires borrowed from Spain ; those in Asunción borrowed from the porteños, or residents of Buenos Aires, and Paraguayan peones ( landless peasants in debt to landlords ) bought goods on credit.

A British firm began building a railroad from Asunción to Paraguarí, one of South America's first, in 1858.

Government records indicated that approximately 12, 000 immigrants entered the port of Asunción between 1882 and 1907, of that total, almost 9, 000 came from Italy, Germany, France, and Spain.

The first was the completion of the road from Asunción to Puerto Presidente Stroessner and to Brazilian seaports on the Atlantic, ending traditional dependence on access through Argentina and opening the east to many for the first time.

A second ( and permanent ) settlement was established in 1580 by Juan de Garay, who arrived by sailing down the Paraná River from Asunción ( now the capital of Paraguay ).

* 4 February 1996: a LAC Colombia cargo Douglas DC-8-55F registration HK-3979X flying from Asunción to Campinas-Viracopos for an empty positioning flight from Asunción.

In 1588 – 89 St. Francis Solanus crossed the Chaco wilderness from Peru and stopped at Asunción, but gave no attention to the Guaraní.

The name originates from the Spanish words, " aguas calientes " meaning " hot springs ," part of the original name of " Villa de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de las Aguas Calientes " ( Village of our Lady of Assumption of the Hot Waters ).

The altar features a statue of Our Lady of the Assumption ( Nuestra Señora de al Asunción ) which was made in Italy during the Porfirio era, who is represented by a bronze sculpture brought from Europe and made by Tadoini.

Sebastián Gaboto and Diego García first explored the area at the beginning of the 16th century trying to find a route from Viceroyalty of Peru to Asunción.

Another branch, from Buenos Aires to Asunción in Paraguay, heads out of Buenos Aires on Argentina National Route 9.

Sarmiento died in Asunción, Paraguay, at the age of 77 from a heart attack.