Caacupé
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Caacupé (; Guarani: Ka'akupe , literally: "Behind the Mount") is a city and district in Paraguay. It is the capital of the department of Cordillera.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Caacupé
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City and district
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Caacupe.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Basilica of Caacupé, Paraguay
- Settlement.image_flag
- Banderakaqp.jpg
- Settlement.image_shield
- kaqplogo.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Paraguay
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Paraguay
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Cordillera
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Diego Armando Riveros Gonzalez
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 145
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2019
- Settlement.population_total
- 56864
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Caacupé
- Country
- Paraguay
- Located in
- Cordillera Department
- Official language
- Guarani
- Population
- 56047
- Area
- 145
- Elevation
- 179
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Capital of
- Cordillera Department
- Official website
- www.mcaacupe.com
- Image
- Basílica de Caacupé.jpg
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- Commons category
- Caacupé
- topic's main category
- Category:Caacupé
- postal code
- 030101–030123
- native label
- Caacupé
- inception
- 1770-00-00
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Caacupé
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Caacupé
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Caacupé (; Guarani: Ka'akupe , literally: "Behind the Mount") is a city and district in Paraguay. It is the capital of the department of Cordillera.
The town was founded in 1770 by Carlos Murphy, a grenadier in the service of King Charles III of Spain, although a settlement existed here from the 17th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caacupé” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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