Yuty

Yuty

San Francisco de Yuty
Yuty San Francisco de Yuty
Town
	Welcome arch at main entrance of the town.
	Nickname: Tierra del Itakuru
	Yuty
	Coordinates: 26°37′12″S 56°15′0″W / 26.62000°S 56.25000°W
Country	Paraguay
Department	Caazapá Department
Founded by	Luis de Bolaños
Area
• Total	457 km2 (176 sq mi)
Population (2008)
• Total	5 551

Yuty is a town in the Caazapá Department of Paraguay. Located to 98km to the south of the department capital Caazapa and to 330km to the South East of the national capital Asuncion.

Its name origin has two theories. The first claims it comes from the Guarani terms yu + ty (place of thorns) The second asserts that as the place used to be a reunion site and the natives when asked where they were coming from responded. "Ayu aty hagui" which means "I come from the meeting place" the contraction of that phrase supposedly evolved into the current name Yuty.^[1]

It was founded on October 4, 1611 by Spanish missionary Luis de Bolaños with the name of San Francisco de Yuty (Saint Francis of Yuty)^[1]

The main local crops are cotton and rice.^[1]

Notable people

Gustavo Adrián Ramírez (born 1990), footballer
Tadeo Zarratea (born 1946), lawyer, activist, linguist, and novelist
Amilcar Ferreira (born 1971) economist and politician

References

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Yuty Tierra del Itakuru". Gobernaciones y Municipios. Retrieved September 18, 2024.

Sources

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

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[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Yuty Tierra del Itakuru". Gobernaciones y Municipios. Retrieved September 18, 2024.

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