San Pedro Department, Paraguay

The San Pedro department (Spanish: Departamento de San Pedro) is a department of Paraguay. The capital is the city of San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú. Its ISO 3166-2 code is PY-02.

Departamento de San Pedro
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Flag of San Pedro department
San Pedro in Paraguay
Location of San Pedro, in red, in Paraguay
Coordinates: 24°06′S 57°05′W / 24.100°S 57.083°W / -24.100; -57.083Coordinates: 24°06′S 57°05′W / 24.100°S 57.083°W / -24.100; -57.083
Country Paraguay
RegionOriental
CapitalSan Pedro de Ycuamandiyú
Boroughs20 (See list)
Government
 • GovernorVicente Rodríguez Arévalos[1]
Area
 • Total20,002 km2 (7,723 sq mi)
Population
 (2012)[2]
 • Total360,094
 • Density18.0029/km2 (46.6273/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-04 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-03 (ADT)
ISO 3166 codePY-02
WebsiteOfficial website

The name San Pedro ("Saint Peter") was given after its capital.

History

During the 17th and 18th centuries there was much problems with the people in the region. To help for the economic growth, three towns were started: San Estanislao (1749), Villa del Rosario (1786) and San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú (1786).[3]

San Pedro, the second department of the country, was created by law in 1906, and had the territories of Itacurubí del Rosario, Santa Rosa del Aguaray, Tacuatí, Unión, Ygatimi and Curuguaty, as well as the area of the present Canindeyú department. Its limits were given finally by the Law 426 of 26 December 1973.[3]

Geography

The San Pedro department is in the north central part of the Oriental region. It has an area of 20,002 km2 (7,723 sq mi), the largest of the Oriental region, with a population of 360,094 for a population density of 18.0.[2]

Limits

Rivers

The main river in the department, and of Paraguay, is the Paraguay that makes the western border of the department.

Other rivers are the Jejuí Guazú, 327 km (203 mi) long, and the Ypané, 323 km (201 mi) long.[3]

Climate

As of 2014, the total amount of precipitation in the city of San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú was 1,783.0 mm (70.2 in). The month with the most precipitation was April with 353.4 mm (13.9 in) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation was August with 0 mm (0.0 in).[4]

The average temperature for the year 2014 in San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú was 23.7 °C (74.7 °F). The warmest month, on average, was February with an average temperature of 34.7 °C (94.5 °F). The coolest month on average is July, with an average temperature of 13.7 °C (56.7 °F).[4]

Districts

The department is divided in 20 districts:

Districts of the San Pedro department
No. Districts Area[5]
(km²)
Population[6]
(2015)
Density
1 Antequera 480 2,119 4.4
2 Capiibary 826 22,691 27.5
3 Choré 965 15,402 16.0
4 General Elizardo Aquino 816 12,773 15.7
5 General Isidoro Resquín 1,075 13,285 12.4
6 Guayaibí 1,460 15,859 10.9
7 Itacurubí del Rosario 769 6,137 8.0
8 Liberación 587 12,383 21.1
9 Lima 658 6,404 9.7
10 Nueva Germania 657 3,391 5.2
11 San Estanislao 1,700 27,203 16.0
12 San Pablo 320 2,016 6.3
13 San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú 3,176 17,896 5.6
14 Santa Rosa del Aguaray 1,572 19,415 12.4
15 Tacuatí 2,283 7,900 3.5
16 Unión 587 3,780 6.4
17 Veinticinco de Diciembre 995 5,414 5.4
18 Villa del Rosario 1,975 5,734 2.9
19 Yataity del Norte 316 6,753 21.4
20 Yrybucuá 509 7,873 15.5

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Related pages

References

  1. "El Gobernador" (in español). Gobernación de San Pedro. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Proyección Densidad Tasa 2012" (PDF) (in español). Dirección General de Estadísticas, Encuestas y Censos. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Plan de Desarrollo Departamental 2013/1018" (PDF) (in español). Gobernación de San Pedro. pp. 19–29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Compendio Estadístico Ambiental del Paraguay 2014" (PDF) (in español). Dirección General de Estadísticas, Encuestas y Censos. January 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  5. "Territorio y Población" (zip) (in español). ADEPO - Asociación Paraguaya de Estudios de Población. 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  6. "Proyección de la población por sexo y edad, según distrito. Revisión 2015 (8.3 MB)" (PDF) (in español). DGEEC. 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

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