Concepción
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  Concepción
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| Coordinates: 23°24′0″S 57°25′48″W / 23.40000°S 57.43000°W / -23.40000; -57.43000 | |
| Country | Paraguay |
| Department | Concepción |
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| • Intendente municipal | Luis Herminio Acosta Paniagua (PLRA) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8,490 km2 (3,280 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 44 m (144 ft) |
| Population
(2008)
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| • Total | 76,378 |
| • Density | 9.0/km2 (23/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-04 (AST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-03 (ADT) |
| Area code | 8700 |
| Climate | Aw |
Concepción (Spanish pronunciation: [konseβˈsjon]) is a city and district in northern Paraguay and capital of the Concepción Department. It lies next to the Paraguay River.
Founded by a Spanish Governor, named Agustín Fernado de Pinedo, the town prospered in the early years of the 20th century, as a centre for the north of the country, exploiting the new wealth of the Gran Chaco, and a river port. The town was also a centre for the Paraguayan Civil War of 1947. The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Concepción en Paraguay.
Route 5 "Gral. Bernardino Caballero" connects the city with Pedro Juan Caballero and Asunción.
Concepción has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen: Aw) with abundant annual precipitation, although possessing a highly prominent summer peak. Summers are very hot, rainy and often oppressively humid. Severe thunderstorms are very common in the summer, and have the capability to dump copious amounts of rainfall in a short period of time, along with destructively high winds and occasional hail. Winter is much drier and considerably cooler, with near drought-like conditions often prevailing. Concepcion is also located in very close proximity to the Tropic of Capricorn, with the latitudinal line lying just south of the city.
| Climate data for Concepción (1991–2020, extremes 1937–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 43.0 (109.4) |
41.0 (105.8) |
40.0 (104.0) |
38.2 (100.8) |
35.0 (95.0) |
36.0 (96.8) |
36.2 (97.2) |
38.4 (101.1) |
42.4 (108.3) |
43.0 (109.4) |
43.5 (110.3) |
41.4 (106.5) |
43.5 (110.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 34.6 (94.3) |
33.7 (92.7) |
33.0 (91.4) |
30.7 (87.3) |
26.6 (79.9) |
25.6 (78.1) |
25.6 (78.1) |
28.5 (83.3) |
30.5 (86.9) |
32.1 (89.8) |
32.4 (90.3) |
33.7 (92.7) |
30.6 (87.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 28.0 (82.4) |
27.2 (81.0) |
26.3 (79.3) |
23.9 (75.0) |
20.2 (68.4) |
19.2 (66.6) |
18.4 (65.1) |
20.4 (68.7) |
22.7 (72.9) |
25.3 (77.5) |
25.8 (78.4) |
27.4 (81.3) |
23.7 (74.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 23.3 (73.9) |
22.8 (73.0) |
21.7 (71.1) |
19.2 (66.6) |
15.7 (60.3) |
14.7 (58.5) |
13.2 (55.8) |
14.5 (58.1) |
17.0 (62.6) |
20.3 (68.5) |
20.7 (69.3) |
22.6 (72.7) |
18.8 (65.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 12.5 (54.5) |
12.0 (53.6) |
8.0 (46.4) |
5.3 (41.5) |
2.5 (36.5) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
1.8 (35.2) |
5.7 (42.3) |
10.0 (50.0) |
11.4 (52.5) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 158.9 (6.26) |
152.9 (6.02) |
129.6 (5.10) |
142.2 (5.60) |
113.7 (4.48) |
68.6 (2.70) |
37.7 (1.48) |
28.9 (1.14) |
76.3 (3.00) |
138.2 (5.44) |
200.0 (7.87) |
163.0 (6.42) |
1,409.8 (55.50) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 92 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 69 | 73 | 74 | 76 | 77 | 77 | 72 | 70 | 68 | 67 | 67 | 70 | 72 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 224 | 213 | 217 | 184 | 182 | 152 | 183 | 156 | 173 | 208 | 222 | 222 | 2,336 |
| Source 1: NOAA (July, November, and December record highs, and March, April, May, August, and October record lows) (precipitation days, humidity 1961-1990),[1][2] Meteo Climat (record highs and lows)[3] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Deutscher Wetterdienst (sun)[4][5][6][7][8][a] | |||||||||||||
Brazil has a Vice-consulate in Concepción.[9]
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