Obligado
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Obligado | |
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City and district | |
Location within Paraguay | |
| Coordinates: 27°1′48″S 55°37′48″W / 27.03000°S 55.63000°W | |
| Country | Paraguay |
| Department | Itapúa Department |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 16,605 |
Obligado is a city and district in the Itapúa Department of Paraguay and one of the Colonias Unidas. It has been called "Capital City of Cooperativism" and the industrial capital of Itapúa.
History
The city was founded on May 25, 1912, by German colonists who bought the land from Argentine pastor Servando Obligado. It was reclassified as district on June 20, 1955.
Obligado, together with Hohenau and Bella Vista, makes up a cluster of districts in Itapúa called Colonias Unidas for their industrial work.
References
- ↑ DGEEC. "Proyección de la población por sexo y edad, según distrito. Revisión 2015" (PDF). pp. 32–37. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
Sources
- World Gazeteer: Paraguay[dead link] – World-Gazetteer.com
