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District in Itapúa Department, Paraguay

Cambyretá

Cambyretá is a town and district in the Itapúa Department of Paraguay.

Cambyretá
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Cambyretá is a town and district in the Itapúa Department of Paraguay. It is located in the southern part of the country, about 380 kilometers south of the national capital, Asunción and 13 kilometers east of the department capital, Encarnación. The district spans 205.2 square kilometers and has evolved into a mostly urban and working-age community, with its population reaching 47,717 residents as of the 2022 Paraguayan census. Culturally, Cambyretá is notable as the birthplace of the tallest Paraguayan basketball player, Arnoldo Penzkofer, whose local legacy is preserved through the local municipal sports center.

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Getting to Cambyretá

Airports
Teniente Ramon A. Ayub Gonzalez (ENO), 15 km · Guaraní (AGT), 230 km · Cataratas (IGU), 234 km
  • Ciudad del Este → Cambyretá
    234 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · $23–31
  • Asunción → Cambyretá
    297 km · quickest by road, 6h 20m · $30–41
  • Foz do Iguaçu → Cambyretá
    233 km · quickest by road, 4h 35m · R$80–105
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cambyretá

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 Cambyretá. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextEsteros del Ibera - can be reached by hiring a private 4x4 with driver for ~AR$1,000 one way.

From Wikivoyage: Posadas, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Ilha GrandeBR

    10 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,257 km
  2. 02
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,343 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,358 km
  4. 04
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    1,882 km
  5. 05
    OllantaytamboPE

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    2,321 km

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Next door to Cambyretá

Cambyretá is 15 km from Posadas, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.