Pirayú
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Pirayú is a town in the Paraguarí department of Paraguay. It is 50km from Asunción, in the vicinity of the Cordillera de los Altos.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Pirayú
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Estación_de_Ferrocarril_en_Pirayú.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Old train station, built circa 1860
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Paraguay
- Settlement.mapsize
- 200px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Paraguay
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Paraguarí
- Settlement.leader_title
- Intendente municipal
- Settlement.leader_name
- Guido Ramón Gayoso
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 15 October 1769
- Settlement.founder
- Carlos Morphi
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 141
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2016
- Settlement.population_total
- 17601
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 125.72
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Wikidata facts
- Area
- 174
- Image
- Estancia Paraíso - Pirayu.jpg
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Pirayú is a town in the Paraguarí department of Paraguay. It is 50km from Asunción, in the vicinity of the Cordillera de los Altos.
== History == Pirayú; formerly called Gayoso Chapel. Its original name stems from a land donation from the Gayoso feudatory family, a descendant of the local encomendero, to the local Franciscan order.
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