The atlas holds 3 border frames for Paraguay —
the shape you scrub through changes in 1811 · 1865 · 1871.
Moments from the Chronicle
1811Paraguay breaks free On 14-15 May 1811 the Asuncion garrison deposed the Spanish governor; Paraguay refused to submit to Buenos Aires, becoming the first lasting independent republic of the Plata.
1814Rio de la Plata viceroyalty dissolves With Paraguay independent, Upper Peru back under royalist Peru, and Montevideo fallen to the patriots in June 1814, the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata effectively ceased to exist (though formally abolished only in 1825).
1870End of the War of the Triple Alliance Solano Lopez fell at Cerro Cora on 1 March 1870, ending a war that killed most of Paraguay's men and stripped it of much of its territory.
1932The Chaco War overruns the foragers The 1932-1935 war between Bolivia and Paraguay sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers and new epidemics across the homelands of the Nivaclé, Ayoreo and Chorote, scattering bands and pushing them into evangelical and Mennonite mission settlements.
1935End of the Chaco War A truce on 12 June 1935 halts the three-year Chaco War; most of the Gran Chaco passes to Paraguay, devastating its indigenous inhabitants.
A standard single-volume University of California Press survey of modern Latin America, giving the same broad regional context for the citing states and colonies.
Canonical novel narrated in the voice of Paraguay's founding dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, directly on the era of Paraguayan independence and isolation.