Paraguay,officially the Republic of Paraguay,is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest,Brazil to the east and northeast,and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of around 6.1 million,nearly 2.3 million of whom live in the capital and largest city of Asunción,and its surrounding metro area.
The history of Paraguay encompasses thousands of years of human habitation. Both agricultural and nomadic Guaycuruan lived in the region at the time of the Spanish Conquest. It became a relatively neglected part of the Spanish Empire due to its isolation and lack of mineral wealth,nonetheless a small group of Spanish settlers came to reside in the area,increasingly intermarrying with native women to produce a mestizo population. In the 17th and 18th centuries,Jesuit missionaries organized the natives into planned communities known as reducciones,and the experiment gained notable attention in Enlightenment Era Europe.
The Chaco War was fought from 1932 to 1935 between Bolivia and Paraguay,over the control of the northern part of the Gran Chaco region of South America,which was thought to be rich in oil. The war is also referred to as La Guerra de la Sed in literary circles since it was fought in the semi-arid Chaco. The bloodiest interstate military conflict fought in South America in the 20th century,it was fought between two of its poorest countries,both of which had lost territory to neighbours in 19th-century wars.
Asunción is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River,almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of Asunción in the northwest separate the city from the Occidental Region of Paraguay and from Argentina in the south part of the city. The rest of the city is surrounded by the Central Department.
Chaco,officially the Province of Chaco,is one of the 23 provinces in Argentina. Its capital and largest city,is Resistencia. It is located in the north-east of the country.
Corrientes is the capital city of the province of Corrientes,Argentina,located on the eastern shore of the ParanáRiver,about 1,000 km (621 mi) from Buenos Aires and 300 km (186 mi) from Posadas,on National Route 12. It has a population of 346,334 according to the 2010 Census. It lies opposite its twin city,Resistencia,Chaco.
Elisa María Avelina "Lilita" Carrió is an Argentine lawyer,professor,and politician. She is the leader of Civic Coalition ARI,one of the founders of Cambiemos,and was National Deputy for Chaco Province and Buenos Aires. Carrióis considered a liberal,Christian,and heterodox politician in Argentina.
The Paraguay national football team,nicknamed La Albirroja, represents Paraguay in men's international football competitions,and are controlled by the Paraguayan Football Association. Paraguay is a member of CONMEBOL. The Albirroja has qualified for eight FIFA World Cup competitions,with their best performance coming in 2010 when they reached the quarter-finals. A regular participant at the Copa América,Paraguay have been crowned champions of the competition on two occasions. Paraguay's highest FIFA World Rankings was 8th and their lowest was 103. Paraguay was awarded second place with Best Move of the Year in 1996 for their rise in the FIFA Rankings.
The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated,hot and semiarid lowland tropical dry broadleaf forest natural region of the Río de la Plata basin,divided among eastern Bolivia,western Paraguay,northern Argentina,and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul,where it is connected with the Pantanal region. This land is sometimes called the Chaco Plain.
Fabio Dario Biancalani was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He sat in the Argentine Senate representing Chaco Province from 2007 to 2013.
Antony Domingo Silva Cano is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Categoría Primera A club Nacional and the Paraguay national team. He also holds Italian citizenship.
Paraguayan cuisine is the set of dishes and culinary techniques of Paraguay. It has a marked influence of the Guaranípeople combined with the Spanish cuisine and other marked influences coming from the immigration received by bordering countries such as Italian cuisine and German cuisine. The city of Asunción is the epicenter of the distinctive gastronomy that extends in current Paraguay and its areas of influence,which is the reason why is considered the mother of the gastronomy of the Río de la Plata. It is worth clarifying that in the Paraguayan society,the exchange of knowledge between mestizos,creoles and cario-guaranípeople occurred before the Jesuit missions.
The 2015 South American Youth Football Championship was the 27th edition of the biennial international youth football tournament organized by CONMEBOL for the men's under-20 national teams of South America. It was held in Uruguay from 14 January to 7 February 2015.
Jorge Luis Moreira Ferreira is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a right-back for Resistencia.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Argentina.
Javier Viveros is a Paraguayan writer,active member of Academia Paraguaya de la Lengua Española,corresponding member of Real Academia Española and former Vice-president of the Paraguayan Writers Society.
Analía Alexandra Rach Quiroga is an Argentine politician,currently serving as Vice Governor of Chaco Province,alongside Governor Jorge Capitanich,since 10 December 2019. From 2015 to 2019,Rach Quiroga was a National Deputy elected in Chaco Province for the Front for Victory.
María Lucila Masin is an Argentine politician. She served as a National Deputy elected in Chaco Province,first elected in 2015 for the Front for Victory,and later re-elected in 2019 as part of the Frente de Todos.
Aldo Adolfo Leiva is an Argentine politician and Falklands War veteran,currently serving as National Deputy elected in Chaco Province. A member of the Justicialist Party,Leiva was elected in 2019,and currently sits in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc. He previously served as intendente (mayor) of General Joséde San Martín,Chaco on two occasions,from 2009 to 2019,and from 2003 to 2008.
Aída Beatriz Máxima Ayala is an Argentine politician. She served as a National Deputy from 2017 to 2021,and as intendenta (mayor) of Resistencia,Chaco for 12 years,from 2003 to 2015. She also served as Secretary of Municipal Affairs from 2015 to 2017,during the presidency of Mauricio Macri.
