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Eastern Paraguayan Foodways

Región Oriental

Regional

The populated east: Concepción, San Pedro, Cordillera, Guairá, Caaguazú, Caazapá, Itapúa, Misiones, Paraguarí, Alto Paraná, Central, Ñeembucú, Amambay and Canindeyú. MANDIOCA at every meal — boiled, as starch, as flour; maize in locro, mazamorra and chipa guasu; the chipa and mbejú; cattle and the asadito; river fish; citrus and tropical fruit; YERBA MATE grown in Itapúa, Alto Paraná and Canindeyú; and the soy frontier that has reshaped land use since the 1970s.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Paraguayan Guarani, Spanish

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