Caacupe
Caacupé is a city and district in Paraguay. It is the capital of the department of Cordillera. The town was founded in 1770 by Carlos Murphy, a grenadier in the service of King Charles III of Spain, although a settlement existed here from the 17th century.- Type: Town with 47,300 residents
- Description: City & District in Cordillera, Paraguay
- Also known as: “Caacupé”, “ka’a kupe”, and “Ka’akupé”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles of Caacupé.
Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles of Caacupé
Church
The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles, also…
Caacupe
- Categories: municipality of Paraguay and locality
- Location: Caacupe, Cordillera Department, Paraguay, South America
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Latitude
-25.3857° or 25° 23′ 9″ south
Longitude
-57.1405° or 57° 8′ 26″ west
Population
47,300
Elevation
180 metres (591 feet)
Established
1770
UN/LOCODE
PY CAA
Open location code
5864JV75+PR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Caacupe” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ካኩፔ”
- Arabic: “كاكوبي”
- Armenian: “Կաակուպե”
- Asturian: “Caacupé”
- Azerbaijani: “Kaakupe”
- Basque: “Caacupé”
- Bengali: “কাকুপে”
- Catalan: “Caacupé”
- Cebuano: “Caacupé”
- Chavacano: “Caacupé”
- Chinese: “卡库佩”
- Chinese: “卡庫佩”
- Czech: “Caacupé”
- Danish: “Caacupé”
- Dutch: “Caacupé”
- Esperanto: “Caacupé”
- Finnish: “Caacupé”
- French: “Caacupé”
- Galician: “Caacupé”
- Georgian: “კააკუპე”
- German: “Caacupé”
- Guarani: “Ka’akupe”
- Guarani: “Kaakupe”
- Hausa: “Caacupe”
- Hindi: “काकुपे”
- Indonesian: “Caacupe”
- Indonesian: “Caacupé”
- Italian: “Caacupé”
- Japanese: “カアクペ”
- Javanese: “Caacupe”
- Kazakh: “Каакупе”
- Kirghiz: “Каакупе”
- Korean: “카쿠페”
- Lithuanian: “Kaakupė”
- Malay: “Caacupe”
- Northern Frisian: “Caacupé”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Caacupé”
- Oromo: “Caacupe”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਕੁਪੇ”
- Persian: “کائاکوپه”
- Polish: “Caacupé”
- Portuguese: “Caacupé”
- Pushto: “کاکوپې”
- Romanian: “Caacupé”
- Russian: “Каакупе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Caacupé”
- Silesian: “Caacupé”
- Sinhala: “කැකුපේ, පැරගුවේ”
- Somali: “Caacupe”
- Spanish: “Caacupé”
- Swahili: “Caacupe”
- Swedish: “Caacupé”
- Tajik: “Каакупе”
- Tatar: “Каакупе”
- Thai: “กาอากูเป”
- Turkish: “Caacupé”
- Ukrainian: “Каакупе”
- Urdu: “کاکوپے”
- Uzbek: “Kaakupe”
- Vietnamese: “Caacupé”
- Waray (Philippines): “Caacupé”
- Wu Chinese: “卡库佩”
- “Caacupé”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Ybu and Barrio Daniel Escurra.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Site of the Caacupé Basilica and Museum of the Basilica of Caacupé.
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