Gran Asunción
Gran Asunción is the metropolitan area of Asunción, the capital city of Paraguay. It consists of twenty cities: Asunción itself and the surrounding cities in Central Department.Photo: FF MM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Region with 2,700,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Gran Asuncion”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estadio Defensores del Chaco and Palacio de los López.
Estadio Defensores del Chaco
Stadium
Photo: Hazaña17, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Defensores del Chaco Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Asunción, Paraguay. Located in the Sajonia neighbourhood, it is the owned by the Paraguayan Football Association and used mostly for football matches.
Palacio de los López
Castle
Palacio de los López, officially titled Palacio de Gobierno is a neoclassical manor in Asunción, Paraguay, that serves as a workplace for the President of Paraguay, and as the seat of the government of Paraguay.
Estadio General Pablo Rojas
Stadium
Photo: Baiji, Public domain.
Estadio General Pablo Rojas, locally known as La Olla or La Nueva Olla and for sponsorship reasons known as Estadio ueno La Nueva Olla, is a football stadium in the neighbourhood of Barrio Obrero in Asunción, Paraguay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Asunción and Clorinda.
Asunción
Photo: FF MM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Asunción is the capital and largest city of Paraguay. Unlike other capitals of South America such as Buenos Aires, Quito or Lima, Asunción is off the beaten path as it lacks well known tourist attractions.
Clorinda
Photo: Ulises Icardi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Clorinda is a city of 47,000 in Formosa Province in the Chaco region of Argentina. Located 115 km north of the provincial capital, Formosa, Clorinda is just across the border from Asunción.
Roberto L. Pettit
Neighborhood
Roberto L. Pettit is a neighbourhood of Asunción, Paraguay. It is named after Roberto Pettit.
Gran Asunción
- Category: metropolitan area
- Location: Central Department, Paraguay, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Gran Asunción” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Asuncion Handia”
- Basque: “Asuncionaldea”
- Croatian: “Gran Asunción”
- Dutch: “Gran Asunción”
- Esperanto: “Granda Asunciono”
- French: “Grand Asuncion”
- Italian: “Gran Asunción”
- Italian: “Grande Asunción”
- Japanese: “大アスンシオン”
- Latin: “Magna Assumptio”
- Lithuanian: “Asunsjono metropolinė teritorija”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Asunsjonas”
- Macedonian: “Голем Асунсион”
- Polish: “Gran Asunción”
- Portuguese: “Área metropolitana de Assunção”
- Portuguese: “Grande Assunção”
- Portuguese: “Região metropolitana de Assunção”
- Scots: “Gran Asunción”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gran Asunción”
- Spanish: “Conurbano asunceno”
- Spanish: “Gran Asuncion”
- Spanish: “Gran Asunción”
- Vietnamese: “Gran Asunción”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as La Encarnación and Catedral.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include San Diego Hotel and Palacio Lopez.
Paraguay: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Asunción, Ciudad del Este, Encarnación, and Pedro Juan Caballero.
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