Talk:Asunción

Ycua Bolaños

I have added the comment about police robbing victims of the Ycua Bolanos fire. This is taken from www.abc.com.py 7/11/2004. ABC Color is a reputable source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pysproblem (talk • contribs) 19:43, 7 November 2004 (UTC)

I deleted the Ycua Bolanos fire incident paragraph. It was totally irrelevant to the article. Bruno18 05:19, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Is it irrelevant? The page on London talks about IRA bombs, the Buenos Aires page talks about the Cromañon fire - surely this event ranked up there with any of these for asunceños - I would say that it was one of the most significant events in the city's history.--Pysproblem (talk) 15:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

While it was a very devastating event, it did not change history. It did not really significantly change Paraguay's political, demographic or geographical situation. Approximately 400 people were killed - which is a lot - but it is not really relevant in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.104.171.3 (talk) 20:41, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

mother of all cities

Correct me if I'm wrong but Piura, Peru(1532) was the first spanish city in South America and Lima(1535) was founded shortly after and was the most important city in South America during Spansish rule of the countries. Also other South American cities were founded near the time of Asuncion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.121.54.56 (talk) 04:48, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

The article never states it was the first city in South America, it says it was one of the earliest. Bruno18 05:19, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Asuncion is called the Mother of Cities, not because of age but due to location. It was in a strategic location and Spanish ships could go up Rio de la Plata and Rio Paraguay until they arrived at Asuncion. Once here expeditions or supply caravans would depart in all directions. When Buenos Aires burned to the ground, Asuncion supplied the food and the people to resettle. Alvaro Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca left from Asuncion to explore the rest of the continent. During the age of the Empire, Asuncion played an important role due to strategic location, that's all. You must admit the cities in the Andes were very difficult to get to. 70.152.192.145 00:19, 30 December 2006 (UTC)Kerana5, a paraguayan.

Port?

How can Asunción have Paraguay's principal port when it's not adjacent to any water? Or am I misunderstanding something? /Grillo 16:34, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, my bad... /Grillo 16:35, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

wait, what? why not "dry port" or something? Kleinburgerei 23:32, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

It's on the river Paraguay, which ends up in the Atlantic Ocean (or more precisely, the Rio de la Plata, which ends up in the Atlantic Ocean). Never understood why they called it Rio de la Plata (so a river), when it really looks like it's simply part of the Atlantic Ocean, but maybe it's still fresh water at that point and that's why they call it a river. Anyway, that's a different topic. Lots of countries have big ports/harbours on rivers... . Port doesn't necessarily equate to "ocean" or "sea" as I'm sure Grillo realised when he corrected himself. 67.8.85.101 02:33, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Links to Commercial Websites

I've deleted several links to commercial websites. It seems certain organizations have been adding their links in order to further their own commercial interests. Mariscal8 18:41, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Population

Does it really matter to explain where the Paraguayan elite lives or doesn't live? Is the security situation of downtown Asuncion relevant at all to this article? I would suggest deleting or completely re-writing this section. Mariscal8 04:03, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

External links

I removed most of the external links on the article. Most of them are not important (such as schools, football clubs, shopping centers) and some of them don't really fit the article well (newspapers and internet search engines for example, they don't only apply to the city of Asuncion, but the whole country). Bruno18 16:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Cheapest city in the world?

Should we include the fact that Asuncion has been the cheapest city in the world to live in for the past 5 years? http://www.gadling.com/2007/10/20/the-world-s-cheapest-city/ --Zybez (talk) 04:42, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Don't you mean it's the cheapest city measured in that study (is it from the Economist, or something like that) - I'm pretty sure that Asunción would be the most expensive city in Paraguay - it may be the cheapest capital city... you'd have to check the survey--Pysproblem (talk) 15:09, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Translated info

I just merged in some info from the Spanish page - I only translated it, I didn't check the sources - someone might want to...--Pysproblem (talk) 15:09, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Neighborhoods

some of the links in this section are wrong and they direct to districts in other nations. For example, the Ciudad Nueva one directs a distric of the same name in the Dominican Republic. How can that be fixed? Veritiel (talk) 19:03, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of La Encarnación (Asunción)

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let me count the neighborhoods

In the table of neighborhoods, do the index numbers mean something? —Tamfang (talk) 20:17, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Population figures

I don't understand where the population figures come from. The intro says 2 million, the main body says 500,000, and the separate article on the Gran Asuncion, which is the metropolitian area, says it is 2.5 million. Which is it?--Tai tapu (talk) 20:17, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Geography table

On the right of the article is a table that gives a summary of different geographic data. It gives items such as the telephone area code(s). Shouldn't this section also include the TIME ZONE - name of time zone and the UTC/GMT which right now is PYST Paraguay Summer Time (UTC -3)?? ~ watkec — Preceding unsigned comment added by Watkec (talk • contribs) 20:29, 31 January 2018 (UTC)