Carapeguá is a city and distrito

District

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of the Paraguarí Department

Paraguarí Department

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, Paraguay

Paraguay

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, located 84 km from Asunción

Asunción

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Settled by the Caañabé river and over the Route 1 "Mariscal Francisco Solano López", the Carapeguá district is located near the legendary Ypoá lake.

Its also known as the "Caañabé's Pearl".

Area

This district has 435 square kilometers, populated by approximately 32,939 inhabitants and with a population density of 75,72 inhabitants per square kilometer.

Economy

Carapeguá is known as the capital of the poyvi (the Guaraní word for "thread") because of its fine artisan production in objects made of threads like blankets, ponchos, sheets, hammocks and others. They are made with a technique popularly called "poyvi" in which old looms are used.
The inhabitants dedicates to agricultural and cattle activities, also to the cultivation of sugar-cane.

In cattle production, they stock-breed cows, sheeps and horses. In agricultural production they cultivate sugar cane, corn

Maize

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, cotton

Cotton

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 and manioc.

Industries

In Carapeguá works a sugar-mill and many factories of sausages and tanning. The increase of familiar micro-business is notorious.

Roads and Communication

The main asphalted road is the Route 1 "Mariscal Francisco Solano López", that connects the district with Asunción

Asunción

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 and other locations of the department and the country.

Has the telephonic services from Copaco and mobile telephony, besides various communication media and the journals from the capital of the country.

How to get there

You have to take the Route 1 "Mariscal Francisco Solano López" from Asunción, which leads to Encarnación. Other internal roads connect Carapeguá with the other districts and the capital of the department. Many buses from the Bus Terminal of Asunción go to this district.

Population

Carapeguá is the most populated district of the Paraguarí Department

Paraguarí Department

Paraguarí is a departamento in Paraguay. At the 2002 census it had a population of 221,932. The capital is the city of Paraguarí.- History :...

. It has a total population of 32,939 inhabitants, being 16,903 males and 16,036 females.

Limits

• North: The Central Department and the Yaguarón district.
• South: The San Roque González de Santa Cruz district.
• East: The Paraguarí and Acahay
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• West: The Central Department
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Hydrography

Through this district flows the streams Caañabé and Aguai'hy-mí. In the western side of this district is the Ypoa estuary.

Demography

82.09% of the population is settled on the rural zone. 82.78% of the total houses correspond to the rural sector.

The main social-demographic indicators in the district says:

• Population under 15 years old: 31 %
• Average of kids per woman: 2.7 kids
• Percentage of illiterates: 6.4%
• Population occupied in the primary sector: 32.8%
• Population occupied in the secondary sector: 32.1%.
• Population occupied in the tertiary sector: 34.5%
• Population occupied in agricultural works: 32.7%
• Percentage of houses with electricity service: 91.1%.
• Percentage of houses with water service: 57.2%.

Population with unsatisfied basic needs in:

• Education: 5.7%
• Sanitary infrastructure: 17.2%
• Housing quality: 27.9%

Tourism

In this district could be visited the House of the Culture and the Historical Artisan Museum of the Oñondivepá Cultural Center, that shows diverse samples of the history, art and culture of the region.
The cathedral and the bishopric see also deserve a visit.

There are many commerce where could be acquired the products made of poyvi, like sheets, hammocks, blankets and ponchos.

By the Caapucumí company you can get to Mosito Isle navigating in cachiveos (canoes made of timbó trunks) to visit the paradisiac isle of 35 hectares in the middle of the Ypoá estuary.