Some of these were built during a period of war between Bolivia and Paraguay, in order to transport Bolivian troops and their supplies to the war front in the lowlands of southeastern Bolivia and western Paraguay.

Paraguay was losing its natural semi humid forests in the country ’ s western regions at a rate of 15. 000 hectares at a randomly studied 2 month period in 2010, Paraguay ’ s parliament refused in 2009 to pass a law that would have stopped cutting of natural forests altogether.

The Paraguay River ( Spanish: Río Paraguay ) divides the country into strikingly different eastern and western regions.

Both the eastern region ( officially called Eastern Paraguay, Paraguay Oriental, and known as the Paraneña region ) and the western region ( officially Western Paraguay, Paraguay Occidental, and known as the Chaco ) gently slope toward and are drained into the Paraguay River, which separates and unifies the two regions.

The Alto Chaco ( Upper Chaco ), also called Chaco Seco ( Dry Chaco ) is the western three-quarters of the region, bordering on Bolivia, while the Bajo Chaco ( Lower Chaco ) or Chaco Húmedo ( Humid Chaco ) borders on the Paraguay River.

The Enxet are an indigenous people of about 17, 000 living in the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay.

In Paraguay, western Brazil ( Mato Grosso do Sul, west of São Paulo ) and the Litoral Argentino, a mate infusion is also drunk as a cold or iced beverage and called tereré or tererê ( in Spanish and Portuguese, respectively ), usually sucked out of a horn cup called guampa with a bombilla.

Paraná () is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay, with the Paraná River as its western boundary line.

Paraná is bounded on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay, with the Paraná River as its western boundary line.

Boquerón is a department in the western region of Paraguay.

The western region — Paraguay Occidental — with two percent of the Paraguayan population, produces nearly 65 % of the country's milk and meat.

Boquerón Department is located in the Occidental Region of Paraguay, between the southern parallels 20 ° 06 ' and 23 ° 50 ' of latitude, and the western meridians 50 ° 20 ' and 62 ° 40 ' of longitude.

There are also immigrant communities where Low German is spoken in the western hemisphere, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Belize, Venezuela, South Africa, Central Asia, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

* To the west it is divided by Paraguay River from President Hayes, located in the western region of the country.

The pronunciation of the phoneme as a voiced strident ( or sibilant ) apical fricative is common in New Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica ; highland areas of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile ; western and northern Argentina, and Paraguay.

At long, it is the longest western tributary of the Paraguay River.

Zone-tailed Hawks range from parts of southern Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas almost throughout inland Mexico and the central portions of Central America down into eastern Colombia, Ecuador and, more sporadically, into Peru, southern Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, and northern Argentina.

The various trees known as algarrobo in Latin America ( Albizia saman in Cuba and four species of Prosopis in Argentina and Paraguay ) belong to a different subfamily, Mimosoideae.

In 1872, Territorio Nacional del Gran Chaco was created, this territory included current Formosa province and lands that now belong to Paraguay.

First invented by the Guaraní ( Guarani, in Portuguese language ) natives who lived in Paraguay and western Brazil ( Mato Grosso do Sul ) territory that used to belong to Paraguay before the war of the Triple Alliance, Tereré was spread by the dwellers of that region, and for centuries was a social beverage.

The Paraguay makes a long, gentle curve to the south-southeast before resuming a more south-southwest course, dividing the country of Paraguay into two distinct halves: the Gran Chaco region to the west, a largely uninhabited semi-arid region ; and the eastern forested departments of the country, accounting for some 98 % of the country's inhabitants.

The Gran Chaco ( Quechua chaku, " hunting land ") is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, where it is connected with the Pantanal region.

The Paraguayan Chaco or Región Occidental ( Western Region ) is a semi-arid region in Paraguay, with a very low population density.

Grasslands that are flooded seasonally or year-round, like the Everglades of Florida, the Pantanal of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay or the Esteros del Ibera in Argentina. They are classified with flooded savannas as the flooded grasslands and savannas biome and occur mostly in the tropics and subtropics.

Rio de la Plata, with the vice regal capital in Buenos Aires, encompassed modern day Argentina, Uruguay Paraguay and Bolivia.

Most major powers repudiated Cold War assassination tactics, though many allege that this was merely a smokescreen for political benefit and that covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U. S., Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused of still regularly engaging in such operations.

An association agreement with Mercosur-Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay-went into effect in October 1996.

Just after independence was achieved, Paraguay was governed from 1814 by the dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who closed the borders of the country and prohibited trade or any relation with the exterior until his death in 1840.

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.

Following political turmoil during the first three decades of the 20th century, Paraguay went to war again, this time with Bolivia.

Much of the earliest history of Paraguay comes from the Spanish colonization, beginning indirectly in 1516 with the Juan Díaz de Solís ' failed expedition to the Río de la Plata.

He continued upstream for another 800 kilometers, past the junction with the Río Paraguay.

After Mendoza returned unexpectedly to Spain, two other members of the expedition -- Juan de Salazar de Espinosa and Gonzalo de Mendoza -- explored the Río Paraguay and met up with Irala.

In contrast with the hospitable Guaraní, the Chaco tribes, such as the Payaguá ( whence the name Paraguay ), Guaycurú, M ' bayá, Abipón, Mocobí, and Chiriguano, were implacable enemies of the whites.

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.

Litograph of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, a 19th century ruler of Paraguay, with a mate ( beverage ) | mate and its respective bombilla.

He left Paraguay at peace, with government coffers full and many infant industries flourishing.

Probably the only man in Paraguay with the necessary diplomatic, financial, and administrative skills, Francia built his power base on his organizational abilities and his forceful personality.

To make matters worse, the porteño government agitated for Paraguayan military assistance against the Spanish in Uruguay and, disregarding the Treaty of October 11, for unification of Paraguay with Argentina.

Meanwhile, Paraguay again declared itself independent of Argentina and expelled two junta members known to be sympathetic to union with Argentina.

Although complications with Britain and France prevented him from moving against Paraguay, Rosas quickly established a porteño embargo on Paraguayan goods.

In the first place, Solano López's miscalculations and ambitions plunged Paraguay into a war with Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Both Brazil and Argentina remained deeply involved in Paraguay as a result of their connections with Paraguay's rival political forces.

In the decade following the war, the principal political conflicts within Paraguay reflected the Liberal-Colorado split, with Legionnaires battling Lopiztas ( ex-followers of Solano López ) for power, while Brazil and Argentina maneuvered in the background.

At the same time, Argentina and Brazil were not content to leave Paraguay with a truly free political system.

Frustration in Paraguay with Liberal inaction boiled over in 1928 when the Bolivian army established a fort on the Río Paraguay called Fortín Vanguardia.

When a brief flirtation with democracy became a civil war after World War II, the Colorados, the party of the Lopiztas, were again running Paraguay.