Ñeembucú Depairtment
Ñeembucú (Guaraní: Ñe'ẽmbuku) is a depairtment locatit in the sooth o the Eastren Region o Paraguay. The caipital is Pilar. The department is almaist entirely rural, an is home tae some o the auldest an best-preserved Jesuit ruins, which ar locatit near the toun o Humaitá.
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[edit] Destricts
The depairtment is dividit in 16 destricts:
- Alberdi
- Cerrito
- Desmochados
- General José Eduvigis Díaz
- Guazú Cuá
- Humaitá
- Isla Umbú
- Laureles
- Mayor José J. Martinez
- Paso de Patria
- Pilar
- San Juan Bautista del Ñeembucú
- Tacuaras
- Villa Franca
- Villa Oliva
- Villalbín
[edit] Land
The terrain in Ñeembucú is markedly flat, covered maistly in flat, grassy fields anerlie broken bi the occasional wetland swamp or green "monte". Montes, despite their name, ar no mountains at aw, but patches o dense trees an brush that provide shade tae the cattle who graze on the flat plains surroondin them. Almaist aw o the land in Ñeembucú is uised for grazin (cattle, sheep) or ither types o agriculture.
[edit] Borders
Tae the wast, Ñeembucú is limitit bi the Rio Paraguay an Argentinae, tae the sooth bi the Rio Paraná an Argentinea, tae the north bi the Central department, an tae the east bi the departments o Paraguarí an Misiones.