Gran Asunción
Gran Asunción | |
---|---|
Greater Asunción | |
Country |
|
Major Cities |
Asunción San Lorenzo Luque Capiatá Lambaré |
Area | |
• Metro | 1,014 km2 (392 sq mi) |
Population (Population Census of Paraguay 2008) | |
• Metro | 2,698,401 |
• Metro density | 2,582.2/km2 (6,688/sq mi) |
Greater Asunción (Gran Asunción in Spanish), is the metropolitan area of the capital city of Paraguay, Asunción.
Consists in 12 cities: Asunción, the capital, and some of the surrounding cities such as San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso, Ñemby, Villa Elisa and San Antonio.
The metropolitan area has more than 2.5 million inhabitants. One of three Paraguayans live in the metropolitan area.
List of cities in Greater Asunción
City | Area | Population | |
---|---|---|---|
1-Asunción | 117 km² | 544,309 hab | |
2-Capiatá | 83 km² | 246,998 hab | |
3-Luque | 203 km² | 321,662 hab | |
4-San Lorenzo | 91 km² | 380,878 hab | |
5-Limpio | 117 km² | 201,245 hab | |
6-Ñemby | 40 km² | 192,224 hab | |
7-Lambaré | 37 km² | 151,484 hab | |
8-San Antonio | 26 km² | 60,382 hab | |
9-Fernando de la Mora | 21 km² | 143,524 hab | |
10-Villa Elisa | 122 km² | 106,943 hab | |
11-Mariano Roque Alonso | 50 km² | 100,031 hab | |
12-Itauguá (*) | 122 km² | 148,721 hab | |
Total | 1,014 km² | 2,698,401 hab |
(*): Itauguá is not formally part of the "Greater Asuncion" (2002 census), but due to the increase in urban population the last years, is included in the table.
Conurbation
The black spot indicates the conurbation in the central departament. The population of the conurbation "asunceno" around 3 million people.
Gallery
Coordinates: 25°09′56″S 0°00′00″W / 25.16556°S -0.00000°E