Shipbroker Notes: Paraguay Ports

Paraguay seems a landlocked country in South America but actually Paraguay has 4 main Ports:

Asuncion, Villeta, San Antonio, Encarnacion 

 

Asuncion Port:

 

Asunción's Downtown

 

Paraguay has 3,100 kilometres (1,900 mil) of inland waterways. The Paraguay and Paraná are the country’s two main rivers. Asuncion, Villeta, San Antonio on Paraguay River and  Encarnacionon the Parana River. Paraguay River, with headwaters at Mato Grosso, Brazil, flows southward, converging with the Paraná in southwestern Paraguay, and then flowing to the Río de la Plata estuary in Argentina, the entrance for the great majority of ships servicing Paraguay’s ports

The English name "River Plate" is not, as sometimes thought, a mistranslation, as "plate" was used extensively as a noun for "silver" or "gold" from the 12th century onwards, especially in Early Modern English and the estuary has been known as the River Plate or Plate River in English since at least the time of Francis Drake. A modern translation of the Spanish Río de la Plata is "Silver River", referring not to color but to the riches of the fabled Sierra de la Plata thought to lie upstream.