Paraguay today is just under seven million inhabitants. repository On famously vybojovanym Gran Cha

In Paraguay and Uruguay spend a total of less than a week, of which nearly half the time on the bus. Therefore let a short pause over zeměma that we frankly interest of the entire America's least of all. But to give them credit away, it is true that just do not give them much of a chance - time is pressing repository and we are excited to Brazil.
First couple repository stručnejch information about Paraguay. Or a few attractions that somehow vybočujou history of Latin America. That would be because otherwise she slowly write to all countries over the carbon paper. For kuriozitku I consider it necessary to name itself Paraguay. It originally belonged to the river of the same name, by the great flow to klikatícímu across the country and in the language of the original Indians means the water that goes down to the ocean. For river still say pochopitelnej repository name (although the river into the ocean siphonage, is one of the largest tributaries of the river Parama). For the country, to say nothing except Bolivia only in America that does not have access to the sea, already much.
What happened before the arrival of the Spaniards, never really knows. He knows only that lived here Guarani Indians. Long millennia have lived peacefully in the forest until the Jesuits did not turn to the right faith and learned to breed horses and cattle else. Speech Guaraní people remained to this day the second official language of the country, even after paraguayskejch wars in the mid-19th century, Indians were virtually extinct tribe this one. But more on that below. In Paraguay were set up all over the city first novyh continent.
As one of the first countries also won independence from the Spaniards. But the freedom of the country was not brought - up almost to the end of the 19th century, followed by a series of tyrannies různejch dictators. One of them, Francisco Solano Lopez, unleashed in 1862 by the senseless (ie. Paraguay) war against almost all neighboring countries. The result was devastating - not only the country was soundly defeated and lost the vast territory not only been totally decimated, but it was left virtually's no man. This tragedy has, among other also responsible temper Paraguayců which fall rather than give up and acknowledge defeat - many infer from the need to name the national anthem: República o Muerte! (Republic or Death!). The few surviving soldiers had after the war the hard work - re-populate the earth guys.
Paraguay had better luck in the early 30s minulýho century when she managed at war with Bolivia to win and grab her area of Gran Chaco, to whom they allegedly supposed to be a huge source of oil. It was not quite so lucky, it turned out later, when they found the conquered territory and just a big ball. One of the examples of absolutely beautyful zbytečnýho international conflict (Which one was involved in the US, Soviets, Germans and Czechs) and zmařenejch thousands of lives for nothing.
Padesátejch early years began another long dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, which ironically brought the country stability, security, economic boom and even jakejs takejs prosperity. For example, it initiated the construction of the largest hydroelectric plant in the world, Itaipu, which ensured the work of hundreds of people. From here devadesátejch years after a military coup began to develop democracy that here and there some kind of disrupts the coup attempt, so far unsuccessful, fortunately, always.
Paraguay today is just under seven million inhabitants. repository On famously vybojovanym Gran Chaco area about three Českejch Republik lives about a hundred thousand people inhabit the rest of the southeastern part of the country. There's a 95% mestizo, the rest are Indians and the descendants of Europeans. The capital is nearly two and a half million dollar Asunción, which has a nickname, like Prague, the mother of cities. repository Since it was founded in 1537, but we have certainly all clear that the city has more right to this title. Right, either, but last time we wrote the Bolivian city of Tiwanaku topped both about 13,000 years.
Paraguay entire northwest of the country profrčíme practically in one sitting (not counting the forced stops to repair the bus, see previous article), dlouhejch eight hundred klicks to Asunción, the capital of the country. Not that the town was downright ugly, but after all beautyful repository colonial treasures of South America, after all whit bored.
However, as the economy is concerned, repository it is seen that Paraguay repository after all costs a little better than Bolivia (although the per capita GDP is not significantly different). Paraguayci but understand on what can yank a duck, so that, for example, find the largest duty-free zone throughout the Americas, repository as well as the capital repository city is interwoven with a variety of modern and monstrous nákupáků.
But most of us fascinated by the local love of tea, perhaps even stronger than in neighboring Argentina. It is practically impossible to meet without Paraguayce nezbytnej proprieties - Mathe thermos with tea and traditional vessels from gourds with a narrow neck, called calabash. The tea is then drunk hot or cold with a special kovovýho straws zvanýho bombilla. This is the end of the punctured repository so that it functions simultaneously as a strainer. Who does not drink tea, is a total outsider.
From Asunción we move this time really the luxury bus, virtually without delay, in Ciudad del Este (Eastern or town), which is known as the largest b