Filadelfia
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Filadelfia () is the capital of Boquerón Department in the Gran Chaco of western Paraguay. It is the centre of the Fernheim Colony. The city lies about northwest of the capital Asunción. With a population of about 20,000, it is the largest town in the 400 kilometer (250 mile) radius, and accounts for almost a third of the departmental population.
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.official_name
- Filadelfia
- Settlement.image_caption
- Main Road of Filadelfia, A mail building, City view, A letter in Filadelfia and A building
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Paraguay
- Settlement.mapsize
- 200px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Paraguay
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Boquerón
- Settlement.leader_title
- Intendant
- Settlement.leader_name
- Berthold Durksen Lowen
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 13879
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021
- Settlement.population_total
- 19927
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.utc_offset
- -4
- Settlement.area_code
- +595 491
- Settlement.blank_name
- Climate
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 18210
- Area
- 13879
- Elevation
- 128
- Official website
- www.filadelfia.gov.py
- Image
- Filadelfia Paraguay.jpg
- Dialing code
- 491
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- Filadelfia, Paraguay
- inception
- 1931-08-17
- postal code
- 160401–160410
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Filadelfia () is the capital of Boquerón Department in the Gran Chaco of western Paraguay. It is the centre of the Fernheim Colony. The city lies about northwest of the capital Asunción. With a population of about 20,000, it is the largest town in the 400 kilometer (250 mile) radius, and accounts for almost a third of the departmental population.
==History== Filadelfia was founded in 1930 by Russian Mennonites who fled from the Soviet Union. Filadelfia lay near the front of the Chaco War, but was little affected. It became divided in the Second World War, with some of the original German colonists supporting Germany and later being expelled.
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