City
Asunción
Capital of Paraguay
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- Palacio de los López; The Cabildo; The Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption; The Costanera and the Bay of Asunción; Keep
- Viewpoint
- Use a slightly elevated view from the bay side toward the central riverfront, widening the familiar palace view to include the Cabildo, cathedral and ordinary city behind them.
- Palette
- Muted botanical green should predominate in the substantial urban tree cover, with blue-green river water and slate-grey roofs balancing pale walls and subdued roof materials.
- Guarded against
- Avoid making Asunción look like an Andean capital with snowy peaks, Rio de Janeiro with ocean-side granite mountains, or a uniformly monumental Buenos Aires boulevard.
Population1,482,200Wikidata: 462,241
Coordinates25.29°S, 57.65°W
Elevation43 m
Area117 km²
Time zoneAmerica/AsuncionUTC−3
Solar noon12:51clock runs 0.8 h ahead of the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Asunción and you surface nearest to Jiufen, Taiwan — 55 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| Porto Alegre | BR | 823 km |
| Curitiba | BR | 842 km |
| Córdoba | AR | 934 km |
| Santa Cruz de la Sierra | BO | 1,011 km |
| Buenos Aires | AR | 1,039 km |
| Sucre | BO | 1,048 km |
| Montevideo | UY | 1,078 km |
| Campinas | BR | 1,107 km |
Twinned cities
- Algiers DZ
- Curitiba BR
- La Paz BO
- Madrid ES
- Puebla MX
- Quito EC
- Rio de Janeiro BR
- Santo Domingo DO
- São Paulo BR
- Taipei TW
10 of 21 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →