Luque

Toponymy

The name Luque is first mentioned in 1635, in an act of the Cabildo of Asunción when the colonial governor of the Governorate of Paraguay, Martín Ledesma de Valderrama, granted two leagues of land to a Spanish Captain named Miguel Antón de Luque in a place near Asunción known as las Salinas. According to the act this was the place where Captain Antón de Luque had been working an Encomienda for more than twenty years.

A century later, in 1743, another Miguel de Luque, a descendant of the first mentioned, made a donation by testament of a section of those lands to the Franciscans who built a chapel for the devotion of the Virgin of the Rosary in 1750 - 1755, and from that time the old name of Salinas was changed to Valle de Luque.

In 1781, governor Pedro Melo de Portugal made the first administrative division of the Governorate of Paraguay into six towns and designated the district with the name Partido de Luque.

Geography

The city of Luque extends from Ypacaraí Lake to the western bank of the Paraguay River.

Luque is located to the East of Asunción and borders the following cities:

• To the North with Mariano Roque Alonso, Limpio and Nueva Colombia
• To the South with Fernando de la Mora and San Lorenzo
• To the East with Areguá
• To the West with Asunción
• To the Southeast with Capiatá

Demography

Luque is the third-most populated city of Paraguay, after the capital city and Ciudad del Este. It is the most populated city of the Central Department of Paraguay.

Twin towns

Luque is twinned with:

• ARG Ituzaingó, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• PAR San Juan Bautista, Paraguay
• ESP Luque, Spain

Notable people

• José Luis Chilavert
• Julio Cesar Romero
• Egni Eckert
• Raúl Vicente Amarilla
• Pablo César Aguilar
• Osvaldo Martínez
• Hilarión Osorio

Gallery

File:Asunción - Edificio CSF.JPG|CONMEBOL Headquarters, in Luque, Paraguay File:Retablo papal.jpg|The main altarpiece made of maize, calabaza and coconut, especially for the 2015 visit by Pope Francis to Paraguay, in Luque File:Monumento Cooperación Paraguay Korea 1 - panoramio.jpg|The Paraguay-South Korea Cooperation Monument, in Luque File:Hinchada Sportivo Luqueño.jpg|Chanchohooligans, one of many Sportivo Luqueño's groups of fans File:Paraguayan Air Force.jpg|Paraguayan Air Force, in Luque File:Lapacho rosa en floración - panoramio.jpg|A Tajy at Ñu Guasú Park, Luque, Paraguay

References

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