The Republic of Paraguay is a country in South America. It has a total area of 406,750 km2. The climate varies from temperate in the east to semi-arid in the far west. The terrain is comprised of grassy plains and wooded hills east of Rio Paraguay; the Gran Chaco region west of Rio Paraguay is mostly low, marshy plains near the river, and dry forest and thorny scrub elsewhere. Natural resources are iron ore, manganese, limestone, hydropower, timber. The religion is 90% Roman Catholic; Mennonite and other Protestant denominations. The official language is Spanish with Guarani also spoken. Paraguay was originally inhabited by the Guarani people, and first reached by Europeans during the 1520s, being administered by Jesuit missionaries from 1600 until about 1767 when Paraguay became part of the Spanish Viceroyal of Peru, and in 1776 part of the Viceroyal of Buenos Aires before declaring its independence from Spain in 1811. Research Paraguay
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