Maciel, Paraguay

Maciel
Maciel
	District
	Maciel
	Coordinates: 26°11′00″S56°28′20″W / 26.18333°S 56.47222°W Coordinates: 26°11′00″S56°28′20″W / 26.18333°S 56.47222°W
Country	Paraguay
Department	Caazapá
Founded	December 17, 1892
Government
• Intendente Municipal	Amadeo Alberto Ledesma Ortiz (ANR)
Area
• Total	457 km2 (176 sq mi)
Population (2002)
• Total	3,957
• Density	8.7/km2 (22/sq mi)
Time zone	AST (UTC-04)
• Summer (DST)	ADT (UTC-03)
Area code(s)	(595) (5428)

Last updated April 21, 2019

Maciel is a district located in the north western part of the Caazapá Department of Paraguay.

Caazapá is a department in Paraguay. The capital is the city of Caazapá. Among Paraguayans, the department is well known for its orange and mandarin trees, and for its forest hills. The eastern part of Caazapa is relatively undeveloped and consists of rolling hills and large swaths of Brazilian Atlantic interior rainforest between the San Rafael mountains to the south and the Yvytyrysy mountains to the north. The Western part is an area of low-lying marshes and swampland area, and consists of wetlands and tributaries to eastern Paraguay's largest river, the Tebicuary. Many indigenous groups make their home in what remains of the rainforest especially south of the unpaved highway between San Juan Nepomuceno and Tavaí. Mby'a and Guayaki people, who practice farming corn, cassava and yerba mate under the canopy of the forest live in small bands and travel mainly by foot. They are technically protected and their land is a national reserve, but illegal loggers, ranchers and more recently, Brazilian soybean growers have encroached upon their territory. With Paraguay's weak legal infrastructure, little can be done by way of enforcement or sanctions.

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Location

The district is located in the north western part of the department and shares border with two districts of Caazapá (Caazapá and Doctor Moisés S. Bertoni), one of the Paraguarí Department (Mbuyapey) and two of the Guairá Department (Borja and Iturbe).

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Mbuyapey is a district of the Paraguarí Department in Paraguay. It is located 182 km southeast of Asunción and has a population of around 14,077.

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Population

At the 2002 census Maciel had a population of 3,957, an increase of 0.4% since 1992.

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How to get here

It is located only 10 km away from the city of Caazapá, where one can get taking the national route number 8.

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