Concepción Department, Paraguay

Concepción
Concepción
Department
	Concepción's main church
	Flag
	Location of Concepción, in red, in Paraguay
	Coordinates: 23°00′S 57°00′W / 23.000°S 57.000°W
Country	Paraguay
Region	Oriental
Capital	Concepción
Districts	11
Government
• Governor	Luis Urbieta Cáceres
Area
• Total	18,051 km2 (6,970 sq mi)
Population (2013)
• Total	189,660
• Density	11/km2 (27/sq mi)
Demonym	Concepcionero (a)
Time zone	UTC-04 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-03 (ADT)
ISO 3166 code	PY-1
Website	Official website

The Concepción department (Spanish: Departamento de Concepcion) is a department of Paraguay. The capital is the city of Concepción.

Its ISO 3166-2 code is PY-1.

Geography

The Concepción department is in the central part of the country, in the northwest of the Oriental region. It has an area of 18,051 km² (6,970 sq mi), with a population of 189,929 for a Population density of 10.5.^[2]

Limits

To the north: Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil), separated by the Apa river.
To the south: San Pedro department, separated by the Ypané river.
To the east: Amambay department.
To the west: Presidente Hayes and Alto Paraguay departments, separated from them by the Paraguay river.

Rivers

The main river in the department is the Paraguay river. Other rivers are the Apa and the Ypané.

Climate

As of 2012^[update], the total amount of precipitation for the year 2012 in the city of Concepción was 1,496.0 mm (58.9 in). The month with the most precipitation was March with 282.3 mm (11.1 in) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation was August with 4.4 mm (0.2 in).^[3]

The average temperature for the year 2012 in Concepción was 29.0 °C (84.2 °F). The warmest month, on average, was January with an average temperature of 35.2 °C (95.4 °F). The coolest month on average is July, with an average temperature of 12.7 °C (54.9 °F).^[3]

Districts

The department is divided in 11 districts:

Districts of the Concepción department
No.	Districts	Area (km²)	Population^[4] (2015)	Density
1	Azotey	720.37	8,291	11.5
2	Belén	223.71	12,223	54.6
3	Concepción	944.11	80,622	85.4
4	Horqueta	2,082.75	59,374	28.5
5	Loreto	858.71	18,419	21.4
6	Paso Barreto	2,158.25	4,123	1.9
7	San Alfredo	3,990.13	5,155	1.3
8	San Carlos del Apa	1,890.23	740	2.6
9	San Lázaro	1,196.55	11,387	9.5
10	Sargento José Félix López	2,239.73	6,845	3.1
11	Yby Ya'ú	2,178.92	29,780	13.7

Related pages

References

↑ "Ejecutivo Departamental" (in Spanish). Gobernación de Concepción. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "Compendio Estadístico 2013" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Estadísticas, Encuestas y Censos. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "Compendio Estadístico Ambiental del Paraguay 2002-2012" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Estadísticas, Encuestas y Censos. December 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
↑ "Proyección de la población por sexo y edad, según distrito. Revisión 2015 (8.3 MB)" (PDF) (in Spanish). DGEEC. 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2016.