Caaguazú

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Caaguazú

Caaguazú department in east-central Paraguay with an area of 8,345 square miles and a 1990 population of 462,000. The capital city is Coronel Oviedo (population 21,782). The main physical feature of the department is the Cordillera de Caaguazú, a steplike massif at the southern edge of the Amambay plateau. The forests of the area are timbered, and Yerba Maté is grown. Some iron and copper veins add mining resources to the chiefly forest and agricultural bases of the economy.

See alsoParaguay, Geography .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gerd Kohlhepp, "Problems of Dependent Regional Development in Eastern Paraguay," in Applied Geography and Development 22 (1983): 7-45.

Additional Bibliography

Paredes, Roberto. Los sucesos de Caaguazú. Paraguay: s.n., 2000.

                                        CÉsar N. Caviedes