Key facts
- Country
- Paraguay
- Department
- Alto Paraguay
- Founded
- September 25, 1792
- Intendente municipal
- Diego Ricardo Gallagher Villamayor
- Elevation
- 64 m (210 ft)
- Total
- 4,498
- Time zone
- -3 Gmt
- Climate
- Aw
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Paraguay
- Named after
- Mount Olympus
- Country
- Paraguay
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 4445
- Area
- 54592
- Elevation
- 64
- Body of water
- Paraguay River
- Image
- Cathedral de Fuerte Olimpo.jpg
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- Commons category
- Fuerte Olimpo
- inception
- 1792-09-25
- postal code
- 170101–170104
- twinned administrative body
- Camisano Vicentino
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Encyclopedic overview
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Fuerte Olimpo ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfweɾte oˈlimpo]) is a city in Paraguay. It is the capital of the department of Alto Paraguay. Straddling the river Paraguay which forms the border with Brazil, Fuerte Olimpo is Paraguay's northernmost departmental capital, located over 830 km (515 mi) north of the capital Asunción. It was originally called Fuerte Borbón. The city is also known as “la puerta de entrada al Pantanal”, or entrance to the Pantanal region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fuerte Olimpo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.