Fram (District in Paraguay)

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Fram
Basic data
Country Paraguay
Department Itapua
surface 320 km²
Residents 10,200 (2018)
density 32 inhabitants per km²
founding March 20, 1927
ISO 3166-2 PY-7

Coordinates: 27 ° 6 ′  S , 56 ° 1 ′  W

Fram , a district in the Itapúa department of Paraguay , is located about 46 km from Encarnación and about 22 km from Carmen del Paraná at an altitude of 195  m . It is surrounded by the neighboring districts of Encarnación, Carmen del Paraná , General Artigas , San Pedro del Paraná and La Paz .

Fram was founded on March 20, 1927 by the Norwegian Peter Christophersen . He bought 68,000 hectares of land from the Paraguayan state to clear it. The old name of this place was Apereá . On August 28, 1956, the colony was raised to a district.

The population of the Fram colony consisted predominantly of Russians, Poles and Czechs in the early 1960s. Today it is mainly made up of Slavs , Russians , Germans , Japanese and Ukrainians , most of whom work in agriculture.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Origen de la población de Fram está ligado a la inmigración eslava al país abc.com.py , September 6, 2012, accessed October 3, 2018.
  2. ^ The La Plata countries by Herbert Wilhelmy , Wilhelm Rohmeder , 1963, p. 142