Caapucu

Caapucú is a town in southern Paraguarí department, the largest district in the department by area, separated from Misiones department by the Tebicuary River. It was founded on August 15, 1787 by governor Pedro de Melo de Portugal. The settlement's first site, Capilla Tuyá, was abandoned for lack of water; residents relocated to a spring called Ykua León, named for a jaguar said to have guarded the spot. The town center still has colonial-era dwellings in the old Paraguayan style. Caapucú is locally known as the "city of the mine and cattle" for deposits of iron, quartz, and talc in the district, and ranching remains a major economic activity; a 2025 excavation for water wells also turned up gold-bearing soil samples, though officials cautioned that mineralization alone does not confirm an exploitable deposit. The climate is subtropical; best visited May–September.

By Plane

Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (ASU), near Asunción, is the nearest airport, roughly 140 km away.

By Train

No passenger rail.

By Car / Road

Caapucú is reached via Route PY01, south of Paraguarí. Buses from Asunción pass through.

Walkable.

• Colonial-era houses – Dwellings in the town center preserving old Paraguayan colonial styles.
• Rural landscape – Farmland and ranching country typical of the district.

• Paraguarí (north) – Department capital.
• Acahay (north) – Hiking hill.
• Mbuyapey (east) – Rural settlement.