Pilar
Pilar is the capital city of the Paraguayan department of Ñeembucú, located along the Paraguay River in the southwestern part of the country. Located about 258 km from Asunción, Pilar serves as an important center of commerce and government for the far southwestern region of the country.- Type: Town with 28,700 residents
- Description: town and district capital in Neembucu, Paraguay
- Also known as: “Pilar, Paraguay”
- Historically known as: “Villa Pilar”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carlos Miguel Jiménez Airport.
Carlos Miguel Jiménez Airport
Aerodrome
Carlos Miguel Jiménez Airport is a small airport that serves the city of Pilar, in the Ñeembucú Department of Paraguay.
Pilar
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Loma Clavel, Pilar, Ñeembucú Department, Southern Paraneña, Paraguay, South America
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Latitude
-26.8583° or 26° 51′ 30″ south
Longitude
-58.3034° or 58° 18′ 12″ west
Population
28,700
Elevation
60 metres (197 feet)
IATA airport code
PIL
United Nations Location Code
PY PIL
Open location code
58534MRW+MJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Pilar” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፒላር”
- Arabic: “بيلار”
- Asturian: “Pilar”
- Azerbaijani: “Pilar”
- Basque: “Pilar”
- Belarusian: “Пілар (Парагвай)”
- Belarusian: “Пілар”
- Bengali: “পিলার”
- Breton: “Pilar”
- Catalan: “Pilar”
- Cebuano: “Pilar”
- Chavacano: “Pilar, Paraguay”
- Chinese: “皮拉尔”
- Chinese: “皮拉爾”
- Danish: “Pilar”
- Dutch: “Pilar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيلار”
- Esperanto: “Pilar”
- Finnish: “Pilar”
- French: “Pilar”
- Galician: “Pilar, Paraguai”
- Galician: “Pilar”
- Georgian: “პილარი”
- German: “Pilar”
- Guarani: “Pilar”
- Hausa: “Pilar”
- Hindi: “पिलार”
- Indonesian: “Pilar”
- Italian: “Pilar”
- Japanese: “ピラール (パラグアイ)”
- Japanese: “ピラル”
- Javanese: “Pilar”
- Kazakh: “Пилар”
- Kirghiz: “Пилар”
- Korean: “필라르”
- Lithuanian: “Pilaras”
- Malay: “Pilar”
- Northern Frisian: “Pilar (Paraguay)”
- Northern Frisian: “Pilar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pilar”
- Oromo: “Pilar”
- Panjabi: “ਪਿਲਾਰ”
- Persian: “پیلار”
- Polish: “Pilar”
- Portuguese: “Pilar”
- Pushto: “پیلار”
- Romanian: “Pilar, Paraguay”
- Romanian: “Pilar”
- Russian: “Пилар (город)”
- Russian: “Пилар (Парагвай)”
- Russian: “Пилар”
- Scots: “Pilar, Paraguay”
- Scots: “Pilar”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pilar, Paragvaj”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pilar”
- Silesian: “Pilar”
- Sinhala: “පිලාර්, පැරගුවේ”
- Somali: “Pilar”
- Spanish: “Pilar”
- Swahili: “Pilar”
- Tajik: “Пилар”
- Tatar: “Пилар”
- Thai: “ปิลาร์”
- Turkish: “Pilar, Paraguay”
- Turkish: “Pilar”
- Ukrainian: “Пілар”
- Urdu: “پیلار، پیراگوئے”
- Uzbek: “Pilar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pilar, Paraguay”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pilar”
- Wu Chinese: “皮拉尔 (巴拉圭)”
- Wu Chinese: “皮拉尔(巴拉圭)”
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