Doctor Juan Eulogio Estigarribia

Doctor Juan Eulogio Estigarribia
Coordinates: 25 ° 13 ′  S , 55 ° 25 ′  W Doctor Juan Eulogio Estigarribia​ Doctor Juan Eulogio Estigarribia on the map of Paraguay
Basic data
Country	Paraguay
Department	Caaguazú
Residents	37,650
City insignia
Detailed data
surface	214 km 2
Population density	176 inhabitants / km 2
height	272  m
City Presidency	Derlis Darío Espínola Guerrero (ANR)
Dr. Juan Eulogio Estigarribia

Doctor Juan Eulogio Estigarribia - the city and district with the longest name in Paraguay - is located in the Caaguazú department, 215 km east of Asunción . The urban area has about 15,100 inhabitants, the entire district 37,650. Colloquially, the city is called Campo 9 .

history

The indigenous people who populated the area around 200 years before the arrival of the Europeans called it Maracaná , the name of a cacike and a species of parrot. Around 1930 a Dora Bergmann moved to this place and opened a workshop (Obraje) in which Indians produced textiles. In 1948, 1,641 Mennonites of German descent from Canada settled under the leadership of the Hildebrand family. They founded the Sommerfeld colony (33,000 hectares) and the Bergthal colony (11,000 hectares). In 1953 others were added, who founded the New Hope colony . In 1956, an agrarian reform was implemented in the country to make agricultural land available to the landless population. To this end, 6000 hectares of the Sommerfeld colony were distributed to Paraguayan farmers from the Paraguarí and Cordillera departments . From then on the place was officially called Colony Presidente Stroessner . On November 13, 1981, the Doctor Juan Eulogio Estigarribia district was created as a split from the Caaguazú and Doctor Juan Manuel Frutos districts.

economy

In the livestock industry, the focus is on milk production, which is carried out in an industrialized form and largely exported to Brazil. In addition, the Mennonites practice mechanized cultivation of soy and wheat.

education

There are several universities in the city:

• Universidad Tecnológica Intercontinental - UTIC
• Universidad Internacional Tres Fronteras
• Universidad Nacional de Caaguazú

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paraguay - Cities and Towns citypopulation.de 2018, accessed on November 29, 2018.
2. ↑ Mora Martínez Eliodoro: "Campo 9, un polo de desarrollo en la Marcha hacia el Este". Editorial El Lector, Asunción 2008. ISBN 978-99953-1-059-2
3. ↑ Historia de la Ciudad camponueve.com , accessed November 29, 2018.
4. ↑ Municipalidad de J. Eulogio Estigarribia (PDF) stp.gov.py , May 205, accessed on November 29, 2018.