Theme Week Paraguay – Concepción
Tuesday, 24 July 2018 - 12:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: South America / Südamerika General
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Concepción is a city and district in northern
Paraguay and capital of the
Concepción Department . It lies next to the
Paraguay River . Route 5 “Gral. Bernardino Caballero” connects the city with
Pedro Juan Caballero and
Asunción . The city is nicknamed
La Perla del Norte (
The Pearl of the North ).
Founded by a Spanish Governor, named Agustín Fernado de Pinedo, the town prospered in the early years of the 20th century, as a centre for the north of the country, exploiting the new wealth of the Gran Chaco , and a river port . The town was also a centre for the Paraguayan Civil War of 1947. The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Concepción en Paraguay .
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Concepción has a
tropical savanna climate with abundant annual precipitation, although possessing a highly prominent summer peak. Summers are very hot, rainy and often oppressively humid. Severe thunderstorms are very common in the summer, and have the capability to dump copious amounts of rainfall in a short period of time, along with destructively high winds and occasional hail. Winter is much drier and considerably cooler, with near drought-like conditions often prevailing.
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