Itapúa

Department
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Itapúa, in red, in Paraguay
Coordinates: 27°20′S 55°53′W
Country	Paraguay
Region	Oriental
Capital	Encarnación
Districts	30
Government
• Governor	Luis Roberto Gneiting Dichtiar
Area
• Total	16,525 km2 (6,380 sq mi)
Population  (2013)
• Total	551,128
• Density	33.3512/km2 (86.3791/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-04 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-03 (ADT)
ISO 3166 code	PY-7
Website	Official website

The Itapúa department (Spanish: Departamento de Itapúacode: es is deprecated ) is a department of Paraguay. The capital is the city of Encarnación.

Its ISO 3166-2 code is PY-7.

Geography

The Itapúa department is in the southeastern part of the country, in the Oriental region. It has an area of 16,525 km² (6,380 sq mi), with a estimated population for 2013 of 551,128 for a Population density of 33.4.

Limits

• To the north: Caazapá and Alto Paraná departments.
• To the south and east: Argentina, separated by the Paraná river.
• To the west: Misiones department.

Rivers

The main river in the department is the Paraná river.

Climate

As of 2012, the total amount of precipitation for the year 2012 in the city of Encarnación was 1,417.0 mm (55.8 in). The month with the most precipitation was December with 439 mm (17.3 in) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation was January with 27.3 mm (1.1 in).

The average temperature for the year 2012 in Encarnación was 22.2 °C (72.0 °F). The warmest month, on average, was February with an average temperature of 27.9 °C (82.2 °F). The coolest month on average is July, with an average temperature of 14.1 °C (57.4 °F).

Districts

The department is divided in 30 districts:

Districts of the Itapúa department

No.	Districts	Area (km²)	Population (2015)	Density
1	Alto Verá	899.20	17,468	19.4
2	Bella Vista	300.01	13,566	45.2
3	Cambyretá	191.78	51,972	271.0
4	Capitán Meza	440.23	13,802	31.4
5	Capitán Miranda	219.15	13,014	59.4
6	Carlos Antonio López	821.85	19,734	24.0
7	Carmen del Paraná	319.88	8,545	26.7
8	Coronel Bogado	651.40	20,715	31.8
9	Edelira	633.95	24,320	38.4
10	Encarnación	320.32	127,527	398.1
11	Fram	327.84	9,811	29.9
12	General Artigas	1,337.67	12,975	9.7
13	General Delgado	456.06	7,894	17.3
14	Hohenau	197.03	14,414	73.2
15	Itapúa Poty	523.50	16,785	32.1
16	Jesús	143.99	6,339	44.0
17	José Leandro Oviedo	129.58	4,834	37.3
18	La Paz	239.17	3,333	13.9
19	Mayor Otaño	260.28	15,196	58.4
20	Natalio	386.03	21,227	55.0
21	Nueva Alborada	231.49	7,754	20.1
22	Obligado	412.98	16,281	39.4
23	Pirapó	838.34	8,938	10.7
24	San Cosme y Damián	1,583.43	9,712	6.1
25	San Juan del Paraná	103.36	9,410	91.0
26	San Pedro del Paraná	1,483.69	33,366	322.8
27	San Rafael del Paraná	1,458.79	22,831	15.7
28	Tomás Romero Pereira	601.70	29,916	49.7
29	Trinidad	176.12	9,340	53.0
30	Yatytay	220.74	13,182	59.7

Related pages

• Departments of Paraguay
• ISO 3166-2:PY

Other websites

• Gobernación de Itapúa website (in Spanish)
• Statoids - Departments of Paraguay