Luque

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Luque () is a city in Central Department of Paraguay, part of the Gran Asunción metropolitan area. Both 1635 and 1750 have been recorded as dates of its founding. It was temporarily the capital of Paraguay in 1868 during the Paraguayan War before relocation to San Estanislao. The city is home to Paraguay's main international airport, Silvio Pettirossi International Airport and the Ñu Guasú Park, which is where the Paraguayan Olympic Committee is also located.

The continental governing body of association football in South America, CONMEBOL, has its headquarters approximately 3 minutes from the airport, which hosts the South American Football Museum. The 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup took place in Luque. When it existed, ARPA – Aerolíneas Paraguayas had its headquarters in the ARPA Terminal on the grounds of the airport. It is a center of production of guitars and Paraguayan harps as well as Filigranas, gold and silver filigree jewelry including the seven-band ring Carretón de Siete Ramales.

Toponymy

The name Luque is first mentioned in 1635, in an act of the Cabildo of Asunción when the colonial governor of the Governorate of Paraguay, Martín Ledesma de Valderrama, granted two leagues of land to a Spanish Captain named Miguel Antón de Luque in a place near Asunción known as las Salinas. According to the act this was the place where Captain Antón de Luque had been working an Encomienda for more than twenty years.

A century later, in 1743, another Miguel de Luque, a descendant of the first mentioned, made a donation by testament of a section of those lands to the Franciscans who built a chapel for the devotion of the Virgin of the Rosary in 1750 - 1755, and from that time the old name of Salinas was changed to Valle de Luque.

In 1781, governor Pedro Melo de Portugal made the first administrative division of the Governorate of Paraguay into six towns and designated the district with the name Partido de Luque.

Geography

The city of Luque extends from Ypacaraí Lake to the western bank of the Paraguay River.

Luque is located to the East of Asunción and borders the following cities:

Demography

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Luque is the third-most populated city of Paraguay, after the capital city and Ciudad del Este. It is the most populated city of the Central Department of Paraguay.

Twin towns

Luque is twinned with:

Notable people

Gallery

File:Asunción - Edificio CSF.JPG|CONMEBOL Headquarters, in Luque, Paraguay File:Retablo papal.jpg|The main altarpiece made of maize, calabaza and coconut, especially for the 2015 visit by Pope Francis to Paraguay, in Luque File:Monumento Cooperación Paraguay Korea 1 - panoramio.jpg|The Paraguay-South Korea Cooperation Monument, in Luque File:Hinchada Sportivo Luqueño.jpg|Chanchohooligans, one of many Sportivo Luqueño's groups of fans File:Paraguayan Air Force.jpg|Paraguayan Air Force, in Luque File:Lapacho rosa en floración - panoramio.jpg|A Tajy at Ñu Guasú Park, Luque, Paraguay

References

References

  2. Torres, Dionisio González. (2010). "Origen e Historia de los pueblos del Paraguay". Servilibro.
  3. "Comité Olímpico Paraguayo || Contactos".
  4. "Bourbon Conmebol Asunción Convention Hotel {{!}} Bourbon Hotels & Resorts".
  5. "Directory: World airlines." ''[[Flight International]]''. 16–22 March 2004. [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2004/2004-09%20-%200090.html?search=Arkia 88].

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