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The Paraguay River is the second major river of the Rio de la Plata Basin, after the Paraná River. The Paraguay's drainage basin , about 1,095,000 square kilometres (423,000 sq mi), [ 4 ] covers a vast area that includes major portions of Argentina, southern Brazil, parts of Bolivia, and most of the country of Paraguay.
The rivers of Paraguay have served, in the absence of usable roads, as natural ways to access the more remote Paraguayan territories. Some of them, the major tributaries of Paraguay and Parana, enabled navigation on a small scale, and smaller boats with limited use in times of drought due to decreasing flow of water flows.
The Héroes del Chaco Bridge (Spanish: Puente Héroes del Chaco) is a cable-stayed bridge in Paraguay that connects the city of Asunción and Nueva Asunción. [2] It crosses the Paraguay River in order to link the Paraguayan eastern and western regions. It was built to help decongest the Remanso Bridge, located eight km upstream.
The Salado River (Spanish, Río Salado [1]) is a river of Paraguay. It is a tributary of the Paraguay River. See also. List of rivers of Paraguay
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Río Verde (Spanish for "green river") is a river of Paraguay which flows along the Chaco region.It is a tributary of the Paraguay River.During the Paraguayan War, Paraguay's borders with Argentina were considered to be drawn using this river as reference.
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The district was named after José de Antequera y Castro, a Spanish criollo who mediated the conflicts between criollos and governor Diego de los Reyes Balmaceda. The place where he first arrived on his vessel was which would later become the Antequera district. A monument was lifted by the riverside in his honor.