Caacupé
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 first settlement existed here from the 17th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 47,300 residents
- Description: City & District in Cordillera, Paraguay
- Also known as: “Caacupe” and “ka’a kupe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles of Caacupé.
Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles of Caacupé
Church
Photo: Signals, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles, also Caacupé Cathedral, is the religious building that functions as the Catholic cathedral of the city of Caacupé, Paraguay, and also as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Caacupé that was created as a territorial prelature in 1960 and was promoted to its current status in 1967 through the bull "Rerum catholicarum" of Pope Paul VI.
Caacupé
- Categories: municipality of Paraguay and locality
- Location: Caacupe, Cordillera Department, Paraguay, South America
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Latitude
-25.3857° or 25° 23′ 9″ southLongitude
-57.1405° or 57° 8′ 26″ westPopulation
47,300Elevation
180 metres (591 feet)Inception
1770United Nations Location Code
PY CAAOpen location code
5864JV75+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 313910428OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3439320Wikidata ID
Q135959
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Wu Chinese—“Caacupé” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կաակուպե”
- Asturian: “Caacupé”
- Basque: “Caacupé”
- Catalan: “Caacupé”
- Cebuano: “Caacupé”
- Chavacano: “Caacupé”
- Chinese: “卡库佩”
- Chinese: “卡庫佩”
- Czech: “Caacupé”
- Danish: “Caacupé”
- Dutch: “Caacupe”
- Dutch: “Caacupé”
- Esperanto: “Caacupé”
- Finnish: “Caacupé”
- French: “Caacupe”
- French: “Caacupé”
- Galician: “Caacupé”
- Georgian: “კააკუპე”
- German: “Caacupe”
- German: “Caacupé”
- German: “Ka’akupe”
- Guarani: “Caacupé”
- Guarani: “Ka’akupe”
- Guarani: “Ka’akupé”
- Guarani: “Kaakupe”
- Indonesian: “Caacupé”
- Italian: “Caacupé”
- Japanese: “カアクペ”
- Korean: “카쿠페”
- Lithuanian: “Kaakupė”
- Northern Frisian: “Caacupé”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Caacupé”
- Persian: “کائاکوپه”
- Polish: “Caacupé”
- Portuguese: “Caacupé”
- Romanian: “Caacupe”
- Romanian: “Caacupé”
- Russian: “Каакупе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Caacupé”
- Silesian: “Caacupé”
- Sinhala: “කැකුපේ, පැරගුවේ”
- Spanish: “Caacupe”
- Spanish: “Caacupé”
- Swedish: “Caacupe”
- Swedish: “Caacupé”
- Thai: “กาอากูเป”
- Ukrainian: “Каакупе”
- Urdu: “کاکوپے”
- Vietnamese: “Caacupé”
- Waray (Philippines): “Caacupé”
- Wu Chinese: “卡库佩”
- “Caacupé”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Site of the Caacupé Basilica and Museum of the Basilica of Caacupé.
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