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” 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
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.
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)
Inception
1770
United Nations Location Code
PY CAA
Open location code
5864JV75+PR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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: “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”
- 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: “Caacupe”
- Romanian: “Caacupé”
- Russian: “Каакупе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Caacupé”
- Silesian: “Caacupé”
- Sinhala: “කැකුපේ, පැරගුවේ”
- Somali: “Caacupe”
- Spanish: “Caacupe”
- Spanish: “Caacupé”
- Swahili: “Caacupe”
- Swedish: “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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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Site of the Caacupé Basilica and Museum of the Basilica of Caacupé.
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