Piribebuy
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Piribebuy's Church Piribebuy () is a town and district in the Cordillera Department of Paraguay. It is of spontaneous origin, though some attribute its founding to Martin Ledesma de Valderrama in 1636. Since its founding documents were burned during the Paraguayan War, March 8, 1636, was later appointed as its Day of Establishment. Piribebuy is known for its Church "Dulce Nombre de Jesus", also known as "Ñandejará Guasu," and also has a small history museum dedicated to memorabilia from the War of Triple Alliance, explaining Piribebuy's large role in the war (Battle of Piribebuy),
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- Instance of
- municipality of Paraguay
- Country
- Paraguay
- Located in
- Cordillera Department
- Population
- 25363
- Area
- 209
- Elevation
- 95
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- postal code
- 3040
- Commons category
- Piribebuy
- inception
- 1636-03-08
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thumb|250px|Piribebuy's Church Piribebuy () is a town and district in the Cordillera Department of Paraguay. It is of spontaneous origin, though some attribute its founding to Martin Ledesma de Valderrama in 1636. Since its founding documents were burned during the Paraguayan War, March 8, 1636, was later appointed as its Day of Establishment. Piribebuy is known for its Church "Dulce Nombre de Jesus", also known as "Ñandejará Guasu," and also has a small history museum dedicated to memorabilia from the War of Triple Alliance, explaining Piribebuy's large role in the war (Battle of Piribebuy), as well as memorabilia from the Chaco War and colonial times.
== History ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Piribebuy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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