--- title: "Asunción – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Asunción, Paraguay: capital. Nearby: Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Estadio General Pablo Rojas, National Library of Paraguay. Every way there from the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/asu" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/asu.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Palacio_de_los_L%C3%B3pez_Asunci%C3%B3n_2.jpg" --- Capital · Paraguay · Asuncion # Asunción ![Asunción](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Palacio_de_los_L%C3%B3pez_Asunci%C3%B3n_2.jpg) Asunción · Wikimedia Commons (see file page) What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Asunción 10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Estadio Defensores del Chaco The Estadio Defensores del Chaco is a multi-purpose stadium in Asunción, Paraguay. Located in the Sajonia neighbourhood, it is the owned by the Paraguayan Football Association and used mostly for football matches. 1.2 km · multi-purpose stadium in Asunción, Paraguay · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_Defensores_del_Chaco) 2. Estadio General Pablo Rojas Estadio General Pablo Rojas, locally known as La Olla or La Nueva Olla and for sponsorship reasons known as Estadio ueno La Nueva Olla, is a football stadium in the neighbourhood of Barrio Obrero in Asunción, Paraguay. It is the home of Cerro Porteño. 1.8 km · football stadium · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_General_Pablo_Rojas) 3. National Library of Paraguay The National Library of Paraguay was created in 1887. It is the legal deposit and copyright library for Paraguay. 1.4 km · national library · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Paraguay) 4. Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, Asunción The Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption It is the main Catholic church in Asunción. It is located in the neighborhood La Catedral, in the historic center of the capital of Paraguay. 1.6 km · church in Asunción, Paraguay · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asunci%C3%B3n_Cathedral) 5. Estadio Ueno Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb The Estadio Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb, officially known Estadio ueno Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb due to sponsorship, is a football stadium in Asunción, Paraguay. It is the home venue of Club Olimpia and is named after former club president Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb. 3.9 km · football stadium in Asuncion, Paraguay · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_Osvaldo_Dom%C3%ADnguez_Dibb) 6. National Pantheon of the Heroes The National Pantheon of the Heroes, whose full name National Pantheon of Heroes and Oratory of the Virgin of the Assumption is a building and landmark of Asunción, Paraguay, and a national monument of Paraguay. Located between Palma and Chile streets in the downtown area of the Paraguayan capital, it is considered of great architectural, artistic and cultural heritage. 1.3 km · church building and national monument in Asunción, Paraguay · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pantheon_of_the_Heroes) 7. Estadio Dr. Nicolás Léoz The Estadio Tigo La Huerta is a hybrid grass football stadium in Asunción, Paraguay. 3.7 km · football stadium la cancha es de 102 x 66u · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_La_Huerta) 8. Universidad Americana The Universidad Americana is a private university located in Paraguay. Founded in 1994, the university has two teaching facilities in Asunción, one in Ciudad del Este and one in Encarnación. 4.9 km · Paraguayan university · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad_Americana_(Paraguay%29) 9. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Asunción The National Museum of Fine Arts of Asunción, located on Mcal. Estigarribia and Iturbe St. 2.6 km · art museum in Asunción, Paraguay · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Nacional_de_Bellas_Artes_de_Asunci%C3%B3n) 10. Casa de la Independencia Museum The Casa de la Independencia Museum is a history museum and historic house located in Asunción, Paraguay. The museum was inaugurated on May 14, 1965, and showcases pieces of history that date back to the independence of the country. 1.3 km · museum in Asunción, Paraguay · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_de_la_Independencia_Museum) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Asunción **Airports:** Silvio Pettirossi (ASU), 14 km · Resistencia (RES), 279 km · Teniente Ramon A. Ayub Gonzalez (ENO), 281 km\ **Stations:** Clorinda Airport, 9.1 km\ - Encarnación → Asunción Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/encarnacion-to-asuncion) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Encarnaci%C3%B3n&to=Asunci%C3%B3n) - Ciudad del Este → Asunción Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ciudad-del-este-to-asuncion) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ciudad+del+Este&to=Asunci%C3%B3n) - Resistencia → Asunción Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/resistencia-to-asuncion) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Resistencia&to=Asunci%C3%B3n) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Asunci%C3%B3n) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Asunción Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Asunción. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Also, some major hotels have their own private minibuses. - Get in Copanatra car ferries link Asunción to Argentina crossing the river Paraguay between the at the end of Avenida Perón on the southern edge of the city with Puerto Pilcomayo, on the Argentinian side, every 30 min M-F 06:30-17:30, and Sa and holidays 07:00-13:30. - Get around The old is at the riverside end of calle Colón and El Paraguayo Independiente, where small motor boats and car ferries make the 25-minute river crossing to Chaco'í, a small town on the other side of the river where good views of Asunción can be observed. From [Wikivoyage: Asunción](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Asunci%C3%B3n), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Uyuni and the Salar de Uyuni](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/uyuni) BO 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 1,083 km 2. [San Pedro de Atacama](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/san-pedro-de-atacama) CL 8 ways of moving, 30 sources 1,103 km 3. [Ilha Grande](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ilha-grande) BR 10 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,386 km 4. [Rurrenabaque](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/rurrenabaque) BO 8 ways of moving, 37 sources 1,587 km 5. [Ollantaytambo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ollantaytambo) PE 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 2,032 km If you know how people move in Asunción – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Casu&title=Asunci%C3%B3n&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fasu), and the note gets an entry. 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