Mbocayaty
Sign in to saveMbocayaty (Guaraní: Mbokajaty) is a town in the Guairá Department of Paraguay. Its located 7 km to the north of Villarrica and 166 km to the east of Asuncion.
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- municipality of Paraguay
- Country
- Paraguay
- Located in
- Guairá Department
- Area
- 201
- Elevation
- 117
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Mbocayaty (Guaraní: Mbokajaty) is a town in the Guairá Department of Paraguay. Its located 7 km to the north of Villarrica and 166 km to the east of Asuncion.
Originally known as Capilla Duarte (Spanish Duarte Chapel) due to the Catholic chapel built in the 1800s by a family named Duarte. Its current name comes from the Guarani language expression Mbokaja + ty, meaning ¨land with many macaw palms"
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mbocayaty” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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