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# Encarnacion

Encarnación is a district and the capital city of Itapúa Department in Paraguay, located at the south-east of the department, on the right-hand (western) shore of the Paraná River, opposite Posadas, Argentina.

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## Every way there

- Ciudad del Este → Encarnacion 237 km · quickest by road, 4h 10m · $22–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ciudad-del-este-to-encarnacion) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ciudad+del+Este&to=Encarnacion)
- Asunción → Encarnacion 288 km · quickest by road, 6h 2m · $29–40 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/asuncion-to-encarnacion) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Asunci%C3%B3n&to=Encarnacion)
- Foz do Iguaçu → Encarnacion 236 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · R$80–105 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/foz-do-iguacu-to-encarnacion) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Foz+do+Igua%C3%A7u&to=Encarnacion)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Encarnacion, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Encarnacion has

- Y Scheduled flights Encarnación (ENO), 12 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries ferry terminal, 18 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Posadas, 8 km.

-27.330°, -55.880°

The city has an area of 274 km2

and a population of 106,842, and the Greater Encarnacion area has a population of around 200,000. Encarnación is the third-largest city of Paraguay. The city was originally named Nuestra Señora de la Anunciación de Itapúa.

How locals move

## Getting around Encarnacion the local way

- Go next Esteros del Ibera - can be reached by hiring a private 4x4 with driver for ~AR$1,000 one way.

From [Wikivoyage: Posadas](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Posadas), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarnaci%C3%B3n%2C_Paraguay), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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