Colonia Independencia

Independencia
Independencia
	Independencia
	Coordinates: 25°43′12″S 56°15′0″W / 25.72000°S 56.25000°W
Country	Paraguay
Department	Guairá
Population (2008)
• Total	1 757

Independencia (better known as Colonia Independencia) is a town and district in the Guairá department of Paraguay.

The town is a tourist attraction because of its German heritage, specially in the month of October for its big Oktoberfest celebration.

Colonia Independencia received large waves of European immigrants during the 1940s and after the war, mainly from Nazi Germany and to a lesser extent from Austria, Switzerland, and Hungary.^[1]

Roads edit

The town is connected by PY10 to the national routes system.

References edit

^ ABC Color. "(Colonia) Independencia" (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 September 2015.

Sources edit

World Gazeteer: Paraguay^{[dead link]} – World-Gazetteer.com

[1] ABC Color. "(Colonia) Independencia" (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 September 2015.

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