Districts of Paraguay

Paraguay is divided into departamentos (departments), which are divided into distritos (districts). Some sources disagree about the list of districts. As nearly as I can tell, the table below shows all of the districts of Paraguay as of about 2000-01-01.

Maps of the districts: Region Oriental (Alto Paraná , Amambay , Asunción , Caaguazú , Caazapá , Canindeyú , Central , Concepción , Cordillera , Guairá , Itapúa , Misiones , Ñeembucú , Paraguarí , San Pedro ); Region Occidental  (Alto Paraguay, Boquerón, Presidente Hayes).

From another source, with no district names on the maps: Alto Paraná , Alto Paraguay , Amambay , Asunción , Boquerón , Caaguazú , Caazapá , Canindeyú , Central , Concepción , Cordillera , Guairá , Itapúa , Misiones , Ñeembucú , Paraguarí , Presidente Hayes , and San Pedro 

Change history:

The Paraguayan Chamber of Deputies has a Legislation  page, with year-by-year links to lists of the laws passed from 1948 to 2000. The following timeline shows all the district changes I could find. There were probably others not listed. For the most part, I've used the spelling given in the summaries of laws.
1948-11-25: The division into districts of Central and Paraguarí departments was modified by Law No. 52.
1953-04-27: Tebicuarymi compañia was raised to the status of district by Law No. 155. I suppose this means that Tebicuarymi had been a subdivision of some district, but on this date it was split away from that district to become a district of its own.
1957-08-12: Capitán Miranda municipio was created by Law No. 444.
1957-08-31: Mauricio Jose Troche district was created by Law No. 457.
1957-09-12: Status of Capitán Miranda changed from municipio to district by Law No. 468 (my interpretation; a literal translation would read, "Law No. 468: by which Law No. 444 of August 12, 1957 is modified (which creates the district of Capitán Miranda)").
1960-06-10: Bella Vista del Alto Paraná colonia (in Itapúa department) was raised to the status of district by Law No. 589.
1960-10-04: Abay compañia (in Caazapá department) was raised to the status of district by Law No. 690.
1961-05-05: Jose Fassardi district was created by Law No. 696.
1961-08-30: Capitán Vicente Antonia Matiauda district (in Itapúa department) was created by Law No. 721.
1962-05-18: Cecina, Rosario Pastoreo, Taruma, and Villa Pastoreo compañias were transferred from Jose Fassardi district to Abai district by Law No. 774.
1962-06-05: Lambaré district created by Law No. 791.
1962-07-31: Puerto Pinasco district created by Law No. 818.
1964-06-23: Name of Mayor Jose deJesus Martinez district changed to Pedro Gonzales by Law No. 930.
1966-07-05: Doctor Juan Manuel Frutos district created by Law No. 1136.
1966-08-31: Additional territory annexed to Puerto Pinasco district by Law No. 1191. Jesus and Trinidad districts created by Law No. 1193.
1967-07-17: Presidente Stroessner district created by Law No. 1251.
1968-10-30: Juan Leon Mallorquin district created by Law No. 20. Juan O'Leary district created by Law No. 21.
1972-07-04: Villalbín district created by Law No. 354.
1972-10-14: Name of Nueva Australia district changed to Hugo Stroessner by Law No. 362.
1972-12-22: Yataity colonia was raised to the status of district and renamed Felipe Matiauda by Law No. 385.
1973-07-30: Salto del Guairá district created by Law No. 390.
1973-09-07: Loma Grande district created by Law No. 394. 25 de Diciembre colonia was raised to the status of district by Law No. 396.
1973-12-07: Administrative divisions of Paraguay reorganized, at both the department and district levels, by Law No. 426.
1973-12-21: Mbocayaty del Yhaguy district (in Cordillera department) was created by Law No. 428.
1974-11-08: Repatriación district (in Caaguazú department) was created by Law No. 467.
1974-11-15: Presidente Franco district (in Alto Paraná department) was created by Law No. 469.
1974-12-04: Domingo Robledo district (in Itapúa department) was created by Law No. 484. Salitre-Cue compañia was raised to the status of district and renamed Jose Leandro Oviedo by Law No. 485.
1974-12-18: Corpus Christi district (in Canindeyú department) was created by Law No. 497.
1976-12-09: Doctor Juan Ramon Chavez district (in Caaguazú department) was created by Law No. 617.
1976-12-17: La Victoria district (in Alto Paraguay department) was created by Law No. 619.
1978-07-18: Repatriación district expanded by Law No. 697.
1978-12-15: Itanara colonia (in Canindeyú department) was raised to the status of district by Law No. 723. Mayor Julio Dionisio Otaño colonia was raised to the status of district by Law No. 724. Carlos Antonio Lopez colonia and San Lorenzo colonia were raised to the status of district by Law No. 725. It is not clear from the wording of the summary whether these last two were merged into a single district. If so, the district would probably be Carlos Antonio Lopez. Alborada colonia, Apeaime colonia, and San Rafael colonia were presumably merged, raised to the status of district, and renamed San Rafael del Paraná by Law No. 726.
1979-11-26: Presidente Franco district expanded by Law No. 776.
1979-12-24: San Pablo colonia (formerly named Cocuere, in San Pedro department) was raised to the status of district by Law No. 792. Boundary was defined for Domingo Martinez de Irala district (in Alto Paraná department) by Law No. 794. According to the summary of this law, the district had been created by Law No. 426 on 1973-12-07.
1980-09-08: Boundary was defined for Mariscal Jose Felix Estigarribia district by Law No. 808. According to the summary of this law, the district had been created by Decree-Law No. 13501 on 1946-05-07.
1980-10-13: Yguazu colonia (in Alto Paraná department) raised to the status of district by Law No. 815.
1981-11-13: Doctor J. Eulogio Estigarribia district was created, and the boundary of Juan Manuel Frutos and Caaguazú districts (in Caaguazú department) was modified, by Law No. 873. This suggests that the new district was formed from parts of the other two.
1981-12-07: Antidia Matiauda district (in Itapúa department) was created by Law No. 883.
1981-12-11: Chore district (in San Pedro department) was created by Law No. 885.
1981-12-18: General Francisco Isidoro Resquin district (in San Pedro department) was created by Law No. 911.
1982-11-19: Law No. 911 (see previous entry) was modified by Law No. 957, but there is no indication how.
1982-12-07: Boundary was defined for Caapucu district (in Paraguarí department) by Law No. 969. R.I. 3 Corrales district (in Caaguazú department) was created by Law No. 970.
1982-12-17: Domingo Robledo district (in Itapúa department) expanded by Law No. 972.
1983-08-19: Doctor Bottrell district (in Guairá department) was created by Law No. 1001.
1983-10-04: Tomas Romero Pereira district (in Itapúa department) was created by Law No. 1009.
1984-12-07: San Cristobal district (in Alto Paraná department) was created by Law No. 1092.
1984-12-20: Ñacunday district (in Alto Paraná department) was created by Law No. 1097. Yby-Yau district (in Concepción department) was created by Law No. 1100. Doña Heriberta Stroessner de Iglesias district (in Itapúa district) was created by Law No. 1101.
1985-10-07: Raul Arsenio Oviedo district (in Caaguazú department) was created by Law No. 1143.
1985-11-15: J. Augusto Saldivar district (in Central department) was created by Law No. 1149. Law No. 428 of 1973 (above) was modified by Law No. 1153, but there is no indication how.
1986-09-01: San Jose Obrero district (in Cordillera department) was created by Law No. 1202.
1986-10-03: La Paz district (in Itapúa department) was created by Law No. 1204.
1987-08-10: Yatytay district (in Itapúa department) was created by Law No. 1244.
1987-11-30: Catuete colonia, La Paloma colonia, and Puente Kyjha colonia (in Canindeyú department) were presumably merged, raised to the status of a district, and renamed Francisco Caballero Alvarez by Law No. 1275. Nanawa district (in Presidente Hayes department) was created by Law No. 1276.
1987-12-14: Mariscal Francisco Solano Lopez district (in Caaguazú department) was created by Law No. 1279.
1987-12-18: Jose Domingo Ocampos district (in Caaguazú department) was created by Law No. 1299.
1988-12-19: San Juan del Paraná district (in Itapúa department) was created by Law No. 1355.
1990-01-16: Los Cedrales district (in Alto Paraná department) was created by Law No. 60.
1990-01-19: Law No. 66 restored and assigned new names to several districts of Paraguay.
1990-09-18: Boundary was defined for Capitán Meza district (in Itapúa department) by Decree-Law No. 20 of 1990-03-29, which was ratified by Law No. 43 on this date. Boundary was defined for Cambyreta district (in Itapúa department) by Law No. 45.
1990-10-09: Santa Rosa de Monday district (in Alto Paraná department) was created by Law No. 63.
1991-12-26: Law No. 101 rectified the boundary of San José Obrero district.
1992-05-14: Name of Juan Ramón Chaves district (in Caaguazú department) changed to Santa Rosa del Mbutuy by Law No. 10.
1993-07-09: Law No. 155 of 1953 (above) was modified by Law No. 236, but there is no indication how.
1995-05-10: Name of La Victoria district changed back to the original name of Puerto Casado by Law No. 576.

Other names of subdivisions:

District names are often abbreviated. Common abbreviations are Cnel. for Coronel, Dr. for Doctor, and Gral. for General.
Capiibary, SP: Capiivary (variant)
Guayaibí, SP: Guajayvi (variant)
Itakyry, AA: Itaquyry, Ytakyry (variant)
La Victoria, AP: Puerto Casado (obsolete)
Nanawa, PH: Puerto Elsa (obsolete)
Santa Rosa del Mbutuy, CG: Juan Ramón Chaves (obsolete)
Tabai, CZ: Tavaí (variant)
Villa Ygatimí, CY: Igatimi, Ygatymí (variant)
Yabebyry, MI: Yavevyry (variant)