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Paraguay

Alto Paraguay

Alto Paraguay is the least populous as well as a sparsely populated department of . The capital is the town of . In 1992, the Chaco Department was merged with Alto Paraguay.
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  • Type: State with 15,000 residents
  • Description: department of Paraguay
  • Also known as: “Alto Paraguay Department”, “Decimoséptimo Departamento”, “Olimpo”, and “PY-16”
  • Neighbors: and

Alto Paraguay

Latitude
-20.5° or 20° 30′ south
Longitude
-59.1667° or 59° 10′ west
Population
15,000
Elevation
109 metres (358 feet)
Open location code
58F2GR2M+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313928977
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3439441
Wiki­data ID
Q682642
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Alto Paraguay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إدارة ألتو باراغواي”
  • Basque: “Paraguai Garaia”
  • Basque: “Paraguai Garaiko departamendua”
  • Belarusian: “Альта-Парагвай”
  • Bengali: “আল্টো প্যারাগুই”
  • Breton: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Breton: “Departamant Alto Paraguay”
  • Bulgarian: “Горен Парагвай”
  • Catalan: “Departament d’Alt Paraguai”
  • Catalan: “departament de l’Alt Paraguai”
  • Catalan: “Departament de l’Alt Paraguai”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Alto Paraguay”
  • Chavacano: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Chinese: “Alto Paraguay Séng”
  • Chinese: “上巴拉圭省”
  • Croatian: “Alto Paragvaj”
  • Danish: “Alto Paraguai”
  • Dutch: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Alto Paraguay”
  • Finnish: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Finnish: “Alto Paraguayn maakunta”
  • French: “Alto Paraguay”
  • French: “Departement de l’Alto Paraguay”
  • French: “Département de l’alto paraguay”
  • French: “Département De L’Alto Paraguay”
  • Galician: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Alto Paraguai”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Alto Paraguay”
  • Georgian: “ალტო-პარაგვაის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Alto Paraguái”
  • German: “Alto Paraguay”
  • German: “Departamento Alto Paraguay”
  • German: “Hoch-Paraguay”
  • German: “Hochparaguay”
  • German: “Ober-Paraguay”
  • German: “Oberparaguay”
  • German: “PY-16”
  • Greek: “Άνω Παραγουάης”
  • Guarani: “Alto Paraguái”
  • Guarani: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Guarani: “Yvate Paraguái Tetãvore”
  • Gujarati: “અલ્ટો પેરાગુઆઇ”
  • Hindi: “आल्टो पैराग्वे विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Alto Paraguay megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen alto paraguay”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Alto Paraguay”
  • Italian: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento dell’Alto Paraguay”
  • Japanese: “アルト・パラグアイ県”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಟೊ ಪರಾಗುಯಿ”
  • Korean: “알토파라과이주”
  • Ladino: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Latvian: “Altoparagvajas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Aukštutinio Paragvajaus departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Aukštutinis Paragvajus”
  • Macedonian: “Алто Парагвај (департман)”
  • Macedonian: “Алто Парагвај”
  • Malay: “Alto Paraguai”
  • Malay: “Jabatan Alto Paraguay”
  • Marathi: “अल्टो पराग्वे”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alto Paraguay Koān”
  • Mingrelian: “ალტო-პარაგვაიშ დეპარტამენტი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Alto Paraguay (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alto Paraguai”
  • Persian: “ناحیه آلتو پاراگوای”
  • Persian: “ناحیه التو پاراگوای”
  • Polish: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Polish: “Górny Paragwaj”
  • Portuguese: “Alto Paraguai”
  • Portuguese: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento do Alto Paraguai”
  • Quechua: “Alto Parawayi suyu”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Alto Paraguay (Paraguay)”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Alto Paraguay”
  • Russian: “Альто-Парагвай”
  • Samogitian: “Aukštotėne Paragvajaus departaments”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Sinhala: “ඇල්ටෝ පැරගුවේ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පැරගුවේ”
  • Sinhala: “ඇල්ටෝ පැරගුවේ”
  • Spanish: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Spanish: “Departamento Alto Paraguay”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Alto Paraguay”
  • Spanish: “Departamento del Alto Paraguay”
  • Spanish: “PY-16”
  • Swedish: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Tamil: “ஆல்டோ பாராகுயி”
  • Telugu: “ఆల్టో పరాగ్వే”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอัลโตปารากวย”
  • Turkish: “Alta Paraguai”
  • Turkish: “Alto Paraguay”
  • Ukrainian: “Альто-Парагвай”
  • Urdu: “آلتو پیراگوئے ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “آلتو پیراگوئے محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Alto Paraguai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alto Paraguay”
  • Wu Chinese: “上巴拉圭省”
  • “Alto Paraguay”
  • “Alto Paraguay Department”
  • “Aukštotėnė Paragvajaus departaments”
  • “Departamento de Alto Paraguay”
  • “Departamento del Alto Paraguay”
  • “PY-16”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alto Paraguay”. Photo: Greg Schechter, CC BY 2.0.