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Paraguay GEOGRAPHY
Although landlocked, Paraguay is bordered and criss-crossed by
navigable rivers. The Río Paraguay divides the country into
strikingly different eastern and western regions. Both the eastern
region--officially called Eastern Paraguay (Paraguay Oriental) and
known as the Paraneña region--and the western region--officially
Western Paraguay (Paraguay Occidental) and known as the Chaco--
gently slope toward and are drained into the Río Paraguay, which
thus not only separates the two regions but unifies them. With the
Paraneña region reaching southward and the Chaco extending to the
north, Paraguay straddles the Tropic of Capricorn and experiences
both subtropical and tropical climates.
Data as of December 1988
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