Luque (Paraguay)

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Luque
Lúke
Coordinates: 25 ° 16 ′  S , 57 ° 29 ′  W
Map: Paraguay
marker
Luque
Lúke​
Luque
Lúke on the map of Paraguay
Basic data
Country Paraguay
Department Central
City foundation 1781
Residents 324,000  (ber. 2006)
City insignia
Flag of Luque.svg
Detailed data
surface 220 km²
Post Code 2060
prefix 021
Time zone UTC −4
Website www.municipalidaddeluque.gov.py
international Airport
international Airport
South American Football Association building in Luque
Building of the South American Football Association in Luque

Luque ( Guaraní Lúke ) is a district city in the Central Department in Paraguay . The city has about 324,000 inhabitants (as of 2012).

geography

Luque is 19 km from Asunción on a plain between Lake Ypacaraí and the Paraguay River .

history

In 1635 Martín de Ledesma Valderrama, governor of Paraguay since 1633, granted the captain Miguel Antón de Luque "by royal grace" the ownership of lands that stretched over two leguas "in the Salinas Valley" and that for more than two decades in Luques Were possessions . This decree of the governor ( Spanish providencia ) is the first written mention of the settlement from which the present-day city of Luque emerged. In Luque you can still find well-preserved buildings from the colonial era .

During the Triple Alliance War , Luque was the capital of Paraguay from February 22 to December 7, 1868.

Economy and Transport

To the northwest of the city center is Paraguay's largest airport, Aeropuerto Internacional Silvio Pettirossi .

The city is known for its harp and guitar production as well as for gold and silversmiths.

Soccer

The South American football association CONMEBOL is based in Luque.

The two-time football champions Club Sportivo Luqueño , which plays in the Primera División , is based in Luque .

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Luque  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ María Margarita Velilla Talavera (ed.): Aportes de Benjamín Velilla a la historia del Paraguay . Ediciones y Arte, Asunción 2005, p. 150.
  2. ^ Gabriele Esposito: Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864-70: Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina . Osprey, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-1-4728-0725-0 , p. 18.