Colonia Independencia

Colonia Independencia is a town and district|distrito in the Guairá department of Paraguay.

Colonia Independencia
Colonia Independencia
Coordinates: 25°43′12″S 56°15′0″W
CountryParaguay
DepartmentGuairá
Population
 (2008)
  Total1 757

The town is a tourist attraction because of its German heritage.

Colonia Independencia received large waves of European immigrants during the 1940th and after the war, mainly from Nazi Germany and to a lesser extent from Austria, Switzerland, and Hungary.[1]

References

  1. ABC Color. "(Colonia) Independencia" (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 September 2015.

Sources

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