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Guairá ((:gwajˈɾa)) is a department in Paraguay. The capital is the city of Villarrica. It covers a surface of , with a population of 178130 inhabitants (2002). You can get there through the Road nª8 Blas Garay. It was founded on May 14, 1570, by Ruiz Diaz de Melgarejo. == Anex == Until the 19th century (circa)it received the denomination of La Guayra o Guaira or also La Pineria (the last one for the forests of cury) the region was under the jurisdiction of Cabildo de Asunción on the east of the Paraguay river until the line of the Tratado de Tordesillas. This place was also site of the first great jesuists missions of Guayra, having the borders around the north limits, the Paranapanema river, or according to other versions, the Tiete river, and the Iguazu river on the south. So, it used to be called Guayra o Guaira, to the big territory that nowadays corresponds to the state of Parana, around the 16th and 18th centuries, there were cities which were founded by Spanish people (Ontiveros, Ciudad Real del Guayra, Villa Rica del Espiritu Santo) and some reductions founded by Jesuits, also under the Spanish jurisdiction, such as San Ignacio Guazu, Santa Maria del Iguazu (actual Foz do Iguacu) Pirapo, Loreto,etc. Such cities were devastated by the malocas of bandeirantes ensalveries from São Paulo, having to migrate great part of the population to the west of the Parana river (were Villa Rica was re founded-the actual Villarica-) or to the south of the Iguazu river (were San Ignacio was re founded-with the name of San Ignacio Mini- and Loreto among others). The Salto del Guayra (or Salto Canendiyu-called by the Brazilians Salto das Sete Quedas, on the Paraná River, almost to the crossing with the parallel 24ªS, was the natural limit of the navegation of good depth of the river. Actually the Paraguayan city called Salto del Guaira, and the Brazilian Guaira, indicate approximately the place where such fall, beautiful and known, covered by the waters of the Itaipu Dam, since the 1980s. The Brazilian occupation on the region of the Guaira was concentrated in 1870, at the end of the Paraguayan War, being later baptized with the name of Guaira, to the small department located in the center of the Oriental Region, in a territory which was not included in the original Guayra. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guairá Department」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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