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Encarnacion

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 .
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  • Type: City with 128,000 residents
  • Description: city and department capital of Itapua, Paraguay
  • Also known as: “Encarnacion” and “Encarnación, Paraguay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Diocese of Encarnación.

Church
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The Roman Catholic 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.

Photo: everdaniel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a pleasant, small, accessible city in province in the region of . It makes a nice break on the long ride between and .

Encarnación

Latitude
-27.3376° or 27° 20′ 15″ south
Longitude
-55.8669° or 55° 52′ 1″ west
Population
128,000
Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)
Inception
1615
IATA airport code
ENO
United Nations Location Code
PY ENO
Open location code
5846M46M+X6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 243191014
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3438735
Wiki­data ID
Q47138
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Encarnación” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “انكارناسيون”
  • Armenian: “Էնկարնասյոն”
  • Asturian: “Encarnación”
  • Basque: “Encarnacion”
  • Basque: “Encarnación”
  • Belarusian: “Энкарнасьён”
  • Bengali: “এঙ্কারনাসিওন”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “אנקרנסיון”
  • Hindi: “एंकरनसीओं”
  • Hungarian: “Encarnación”
  • Indonesian: “Encarnación, Paraguay”
  • Indonesian: “Encarnación”
  • 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”
  • Kannada: “ಇನ್ಕಾನೇರ್ ಶನ”
  • Korean: “엥카르나시온”
  • Latvian: “Enkarnasjona”
  • Lithuanian: “Enkarnasjonas”
  • Macedonian: “Енкарнасион”
  • Malay: “Encarnacion”
  • Marathi: “इंकारणासियोन”
  • Moksha: “Энкарнасьон”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Encarnación”
  • Norwegian: “Encarnación”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Encarnación”
  • Ossetian: “Энкарнасьон”
  • Persian: “انکارانسیون”
  • Polish: “Encarnacion”
  • Polish: “Encarnación”
  • Portuguese: “Encarnação”
  • Portuguese: “Encarnación”
  • 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”
  • Spanish: “Encarnacion”
  • Spanish: “Encarnación”
  • Swedish: “Encarnacion”
  • Swedish: “Encarnación”
  • Tamil: “என்கார்நகியான்”
  • Tatar: “Энкарнасьон”
  • Telugu: “ఇంకార్నాషన్”
  • Thai: “เองการ์นาซิออน”
  • Thai: “เองการ์นาซีออง”
  • Turkish: “Encarnacion”
  • Ukrainian: “Енкарнасьйон”
  • Ukrainian: “Енкарнасьон”
  • Urdu: “انکارنسیون، پیراگوئے”
  • Venetian: “Encarnación”
  • Vietnamese: “Encarnacion”
  • Volapük: “Encarnación”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Encarnación, Paraguay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Encarnación”
  • Wu Chinese: “恩卡纳西翁”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Encarnación”. Photo: Myparaguay, CC BY-SA 3.0.