Loma Plata
Loma Plata is one of the three Mennonite colonies of the Chaco in Western Paraguay. Located 440 km northwest from Asunción it is surrounded by the desert-like environment characteristic to the central Chaco that creates a frontier-like cityscape in the town.Photo: Cmasi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Cmasi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 5,500 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Aldea Loma Plata”
Loma Plata
- Categories: municipality of Paraguay and locality
- Location: Loma Plata, Boquerón Department, Gran Chaco, Paraguay, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-22.3849° or 22° 23′ 6″ southLongitude
-59.8382° or 59° 50′ 18″ westPopulation
5,500Elevation
133 metres (436 feet)Inception
1921Open location code
5892J586+3POpenStreetMap ID
node 1404850563OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Loma Plata” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوما بلاتا”
- Basque: “Loma Plata”
- Bengali: “লোমা প্লাতা”
- Chinese: “洛馬普拉塔”
- Danish: “Loma Plata”
- Dutch: “Loma Plata”
- Dutch: “Lona Plata”
- Dutch: “Menno”
- Finnish: “Loma Plata”
- French: “Loma Plata”
- German: “Loma Plata”
- Greek: “Λόμα Πλάτα”
- Guarani: “Loma Plata”
- Gujarati: “લોમા પ્લાટા”
- Hindi: “लोमा प्लाटा”
- Indonesian: “Loma Plata”
- Italian: “Loma Plata”
- Japanese: “ロマ・プラタ”
- Kannada: “ಲೋಮಾ ಪ್ಲಾಟಾ”
- Korean: “로마 플라타”
- Latvian: “Loma Plata”
- Lithuanian: “Loma Plata”
- Malagasy: “Loma Plata”
- Malay: “Loma Plata”
- Marathi: “लोमा प्लाटा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Loma Plata”
- Pennsylvania German: “Menno Colony”
- Polish: “Loma Plata”
- Portuguese: “Loma Plata”
- Romanian: “Loma Plata”
- Romanian: “Lona plata”
- Romanian: “Lona Plata”
- Russian: “Лома-Плата”
- Sinhala: “ලෝමා ප්ලාටා”
- Spanish: “Loma Plata”
- Swedish: “Loma Plata”
- Tamil: “லோமா பிளடா”
- Telugu: “లోమా ప్లాటా”
- Thai: “โลมา พลาตา”
- Turkish: “Loma Plata”
- Ukrainian: “Лома-Плата”
- Urdu: “لوما پلاتا”
- Vietnamese: “Loma Plata”
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