Locations
The University Nuestra Señora de la Asunción has 6 Campuses and 2 Academic Units:
• Campus of Asunción (Central, La Providencia, Santa Librada, Music Conservatory, Guarambaré, Campus de la Salud and Caacupé). • Campus of Alto Paraná (Hernandarias and Santa Rita) • Campus of Caaguazú (Coronel Oviedo andCaaguazú) • Academic Unit of Carapeguá • Campus of Concepción • Campus of Guaira (Villarica) • Campus of Itapua (Encarnación, Hohenau, Tomás Romero Pereira, San Pedro de Paraná and San Ignacio) • Academic Unit of Perdo Juan Caballero
Institutes
• Institute for Appropriate Technology
This is a Centre of capacitation and services. It overlooks the continued education, graduate programs and projects, and the civil engineering lab, Chemistry and water.
• Laboratory of Digital Electronics
It is a centre of investigation and application of electronic technologies and informatics working on the development of projects between professors and students.
• Institute for Graduates and Investigation
This centre has a great recognition in terms of management of courses at a graduate level (Masters and PHDs), sustained by excellence. In the last years, this centre has offered varied projects and degrees in the area of education.
• Institute for Public Policies
This is the materialization of the objective to develop a university centre for the generalization of multidisciplinary knowledge and the formation of specialized human resource with the ability to strengthen and develop the democratic and social state in Paraguay. This Centre was created by an agreement with the University of Georgetown (Washington DC) through the Intercultural Centre for Education and Development.
• Institute for Anthropologic Studies
Created on the 22nd of August 1950, it incentives the publication of investigations -generally monographic) about various aspects of Paraguayan anthropology.
• Interdisciplinary Institute of Social Law and Political Economy
This is a non-governmental entity dedicated to investigation assistance and capacitation on interdisciplinary bases. Its objective is provide help the democratic process through the promotion and defence of human rights in the field of social law, political economy and education, specifically for the most vulnerable sectors of society.
• Institute for investigation of rural law and agrarian reform
The activities of this centre regard the study and analysis of the national legislation compared with rural law and the agrarian reform, investigation and orientation of practical works by the students of the Faculty of Law.
Asunción is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay.
Catholic higher education includes universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher education privately run by the Catholic Church, typically by religious institutes. Those tied to the Holy See are specifically called pontifical universities.
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A pontifical university is an ecclesiastical university established or approved directly by the Holy See, composed of three main ecclesiastical faculties and at least one other faculty. These academic institutes deal specifically with Christian revelation and related disciplines, and the Church's mission of spreading the Gospel, as proclaimed in the apostolic constitution Sapientiachristiana. As of 2018, they are governed by the apostolic constitution Veritatis gaudium issued by Pope Francis on 8 December 2017.
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The Universidad Nacional de Asunción or Mbo'ehaovusu Tetãgua Paraguaygua, abbreviated UNA, anglicized as, The National University of Asuncion, is a public university founded in San Lorenzo, Paraguay. Founded in 1889, it is the oldest and most traditional university in the country.
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It is Misiones' most-populous and fastest growing city, with an estimated 35,497 residents in 2021. San Ignacio is known as the "Corazón del Sur" for being in the center of the three southern departments: Ñeembucú, Misiones and Itapúa.
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The Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption It is the main Catholic church in Asunción. It is located in the neighborhood La Catedral, in the historic center of the capital of Paraguay. It was the first diocese of the Río de la Plata.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption Also Catedral Católica Siria de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción. It is a temple belonging to the Syriac Catholic Church one of the Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See in Rome. It is located on the first street of San Jacinto sector in the city of Maracay, Aragua state, in north central part of South American country of Venezuela. It should not be confused with another cathedral also dedicated to the same Marian devotion, but governed by the Roman or Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the same city.
Nuestra Señora de la Asunción may refer to:
