Encarnación
Encarnación is the most southern city of Paraguay and often called The pearl of the South. The Rio Paraná separates it and the Argentine town of Posadas.Photo: Revirow, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Myparaguay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 128,000 residents
- Description: city and municipality capital of Itapua, Paraguay
- Also known as: “Encarnacion”, “Encarnación de Itapua”, and “Encarnación, Paraguay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Diocese of Encarnación.
Diocese of Encarnación
Church
Photo: Rodney Damián, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Encarnación is a diocese located in the city of Encarnación in the ecclesiastical province of Asunción in Paraguay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Posadas.
Posadas
Photo: EMBrandán, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Posadas is a pleasant, small, accessible city in Misiones province in the Mesopotamia region of Argentina. It makes a nice break on the long ride between Iguaçu Falls and Buenos Aires.
Encarnación
- Categories: border city, big city, administrative territorial entity, municipality, capital city, and locality
- Location: Encarnacion, Itapúa, Paraná Plateau, Paraguay, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-27.3376° or 27° 20′ 15″ southLongitude
-55.8669° or 55° 52′ 1″ westPopulation
128,000Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)Inception
1615IATA airport code
ENOUnited Nations Location Code
PY ENOOpen location code
5846M46M+X6OpenStreetMap ID
node 243191014OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Encarnación” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “እንካርናሲዮን”
- Arabic: “إنكارناسيون”
- Arabic: “انكارناسيون”
- Armenian: “Էնկարնասյոն”
- Asturian: “Encarnación”
- Azerbaijani: “Enkarnasiyon”
- Basque: “Encarnacion”
- Basque: “Encarnación”
- Belarusian: “Энкарнасьён”
- Bengali: “এঙ্কারনাসিওন”
- Bengali: “এনকারনেশন”
- Bulgarian: “Енкарнасион”
- Catalan: “Encarnación”
- Cebuano: “Encarnación (kapital sa departamento)”
- Cebuano: “Encarnación”
- Chavacano: “Encarnación”
- Chinese: “恩卡納西翁”
- Chinese: “恩卡纳西翁”
- Czech: “Encarnación”
- Danish: “Encarnacion”
- Danish: “Encarnación”
- Danish: “Encarnation”
- Dutch: “Encarnacion”
- Dutch: “Encarnación”
- Egyptian Arabic: “انكارناسيون”
- Esperanto: “Encarnación”
- Finnish: “Encarnación”
- French: “Encarnacion”
- French: “Encarnación”
- Galician: “Encarnación”
- Georgian: “ენკარნასიონი”
- German: “Encarnacion”
- German: “Encarnación”
- Greek: “Ενκαρνασιόν”
- Guarani: “Encarnación”
- Guarani: “Enkarnasiõ”
- Gujarati: “ઇનકાર્નેશન”
- Hausa: “Encarnacion”
- Hebrew: “אנקרנסיון”
- Hindi: “एंकरनसीओं”
- Hindi: “एनकार्नासिओन, पैराग्वे”
- Hindi: “एनकार्नेशन”
- Hungarian: “Encarnación”
- Indonesian: “Encarnación, Paraguay”
- Indonesian: “Encarnación”
- Indonesian: “Enkarnasi”
- Irish: “Encarnación”
- Italian: “Encarnación”
- Japanese: “エンカルナシオン”
- Japanese: “ヌエストラ・セニョーラ・デ・エンカルナシオン・デ・イタプア”
- Javanese: “Enkarnasi”
- Kannada: “ಇನ್ಕಾನೇರ್ ಶನ”
- Kazakh: “Энкарнасьон”
- Kirghiz: “Энкарнасьон”
- Korean: “엥카르나시온”
- Latvian: “Enkarnasjona”
- Lithuanian: “Enkarnasjonas”
- Macedonian: “Енкарнасион”
- Malagasy: “Encarnación”
- Malay: “Encarnacion”
- Marathi: “इंकारणासियोन”
- Moksha: “Энкарнасьон”
- Northern Frisian: “Encarnación”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Encarnación”
- Norwegian: “Encarnación”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Encarnación”
- Oromo: “Encarnacion”
- Ossetian: “Энкарнасьон”
- Panjabi: “ਐਨਕਾਰਨੇਸ਼ਨ”
- Persian: “انکارانسیون”
- Polish: “Encarnacion”
- Polish: “Encarnación”
- Portuguese: “Encarnação”
- Portuguese: “Encarnación”
- Pushto: “انکارناسیون”
- Romanian: “Encarnación, Paraguay”
- Romanian: “Encarnacion”
- Romanian: “Encarnación”
- Russian: “Энкарнасьон”
- Scots: “Encarnación, Paraguay”
- Scots: “Encarnación”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Encarnación”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Encarnación (Paragvaj)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Encarnación”
- Sinhala: “එන්කර්නසියන්, පැරගුවේ”
- Sinhala: “එන්කර්නසියන්”
- Somali: “Encarnacion”
- Spanish: “Encarnación de Itapúa”
- Spanish: “Encarnacion”
- Spanish: “Encarnación”
- Spanish: “Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación de Itapúa”
- Swahili: “Encarnacion”
- Swedish: “Encarnacion”
- Swedish: “Encarnación”
- Tajik: “Энкарнасьон”
- Tamil: “என்கார்நகியான்”
- Tatar: “Энкарнасьон”
- Telugu: “ఇంకార్నాషన్”
- Thai: “เองการ์นาซิออน”
- Thai: “เองการ์นาซีออง”
- Turkish: “Encarnacion”
- Turkish: “Encarnación”
- Ukrainian: “Енкарнасьйон”
- Ukrainian: “Енкарнасьон”
- Urdu: “انکارنسیون، پیراگوئے”
- Uzbek: “Enkarnasiyon”
- Venetian: “Encarnación”
- Vietnamese: “Encarnacion”
- Volapük: “Encarnación”
- Waray (Philippines): “Encarnación, Paraguay”
- Waray (Philippines): “Encarnación”
- Wu Chinese: “恩卡纳西翁”
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