Paraguay

Contested frontiers and great rivers give Paraguay an outline that keeps changing in these maps, so the date of each one is ...

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Contested frontiers and great rivers give Paraguay an outline that keeps changing in these maps, so the date of each one is central to its story. Earlier maps place the country within the broad La Plata region, while later sheets separate it from Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia, paying close attention to the Chaco, the river boundaries and the territory claimed or lost in successive wars. Maps of the yerba maté districts and the Paraguay–Paraná waterways link settlement with trade. The prints show Asunción and its public buildings, Humaitá, Jesuit churches and scenes from the War of the Triple Alliance, with river travel, markets, rural camps and Indigenous communities.

Contested frontiers and great rivers give Paraguay an outline that keeps changing in these maps, so the date of each one is central to its story. Earlier maps place the country within the broad La Plata region, while later sheets separate it from Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia, paying close attention to the Chaco, the river boundaries and the territory claimed or lost in successive wars. Maps of the yerba maté districts and the Paraguay–Paraná waterways link settlement with trade. The prints show Asunción and its public buildings, Humaitá, Jesuit churches and scenes from the War of the Triple Alliance, with river travel, markets, rural camps and Indigenous communities.

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