Geography Now! PARAGUAY

Bottles, Harps, Tereré and over 70% adult male population killed off. Whoa

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[GeographyNow]

The strangest Latino nation on earth. It's like backwards New Zealand.... With Harps and stuff. We found a REAL Paraguayan at the last second with her Guarani-speaking mom to guest star in the show! Thanks Marianne! And thanks to all the Paraguayan geograpeeps that helped us with this episode!
....Oh and don't forget to get a KEITH T-SHIRT!

[marianneriquelme]

Ahhh is was so fun filming this! Thank you again, barbs!

[iammrbeat]

Pistol duels are not legal in Paraguay.

[inleusa]

Proud to be Filipino of Paraguayan descent🇵🇭❤️🇵🇾

[JeGab]

2:37 paraguayans would jokingly say "ParaWHY" each time someone does something stupid, and here we have, a guy who did the opposite using "anyguay" lmao

[anubis]

Country in south america:exists
Bolivia: *we don't talk about that*

[grondhero]

*South America:* Today, we're doing a history lesson.
*Bolivia:* We don't talk about that.

[stefaniekroker]

I’m one of the german mennonites but we don’t wear the dorky clothes in the pictures haha. We’re pretty much like all the other “paraguayans” but we speak german and low german. Some have also learned Guaraní but most don’t. We learn spanish in school so many of us have a heavy accent. We eat asado and sopa paraguaya and drink tereré all day cuz it’s hot over here☀️ I was born in Canada but I feel like a real chaqueña (someone who lives in the Gran Chaco). Rohayhu Paraguay 🇵🇾

[johnronald]

My South American history professor said in class “don’t mess with these guys they’re like the Germany of South America, it takes everyone to put them down.”

[rahulkochar]

The fact that you involve your fans in the making of these episodes and went as far as having a viewer host a segment is the type of content we deserve more of in this world. Great episode! I love the energy!

[RH-pogr]

HE DID IT. HE BROUGHT UP RUTHERFORD B HAYES

[rosalir]

Y’all forgot about the recycled orchestra😩 kids created a whole orchestra made from bottles, scrap, trash etc they found in a landfill!

[miketrollmetheus]

Paraguayan here... most of the info is true, but the currency bills OMG they're already 10+ years out of circulation due to inflation, the newest bills are:
- 2.000Gs.
- 5.000Gs.
- 10.000Gs.
- 20.000Gs. (almost 5USD)
- 50.000Gs.
- 100.000Gs. (little bit les than 15 USD)

Coins:
- 50Gs.
- 100Gs.
- 500Gs.
- 1.000Gs.

- the Caacupe Cathedral located in the Caacupe City was planned to be bigger and with a completely different architecture but due to the lack of budget it was redesigned and finished much later than expected, but today it's a landmark for the Catholic population in our nation. Every year, December 8th people walk from their Cities to Caacupé. Asunción from Caacupé it´s 60Km (37 Miles) and from Ciudad del Este 273Km (160 Miles) to celebrate the mass in the Cathedral in honor to our Virgen María. We´ve seen people walking even kneeling from those kind of distances paying their promises to our Virgen María.

- Caacupé means: Ka'a (Herb/bush) Kupé (behind) --- Behind the bushes.

- the way we cook barbecue (or locally called "asado" like our brothers from Argentina and Uruguay) is SO different that you would taste different flavors in the same meat cut when different people from different nations cook... i say this cos i've met friends from both countries and it's different... and it's good!

- people from other countries that i've met some time in the past told me that our city is that have most trees comparing to other main cities in the world. we try to preserve them as much as we can!

- Itaipú hydroelectric energy is the largest one in the planet, and yes it's the greenest possible energy in the south american region.

- as far as i was told, the Guarani language is the second most complicated to master, the first one is Afrikaans (it may have change by now) and it costs 50€ per hour in France to learn the language because of its similarities in the pronunciation.

As food reference (currency exchange at August 4, 2020):

- 2USD (regular price for most people in the working segment), 5 to 10USD (to Executive and Businessmen) to lunch
- coffee costs from 2USD up to 5USD (most expensive at high-level places)
- a sandwich regularly costs 1USD at supermarkets
- 500ml of Coca-Cola costs 0, 73USD minimum, maximum (at mass events like Concerts) 2, 7USD

Wages:

- minimum for people without profession or other labor without a college degree: ~306, 7USD *per month
- the minimum acceptable for people who have college degree titles: ~656USD / if specialized up to 1200USD or 1500USD *per month

Minimum prices of lease in Asuncion (prices varies according to the landlord or RE Agency):

- Small room with one bathroom for one person: 100USD
- Small house with 2 bedrooms, living room and garage for 2 people and a child: 200USD and from there it only goes up according to location

Weather:

- At all times we are almost 100% confident that if it's winter, it's going to be a VERY humid one the same for the summer.

- Summer feels hotter because of the humidity.

As an example: today it's August 3, 2020, plain winter, and at noon it was 30 degrees Celsius! (86F) right now at 11:10pm its 22 degrees (72F) but the forecast for the whole week goes to that range of temperature.

In summer the minimum temperature its 27 or 28 degrees Celsius and a maximum of 48 degrees Celsius in Asuncion with a humidity (depending on the weather humor up to 100% and BELIEVE ME, it feels hotter than normal, i much rather the dry heat).

i hope i filled some info curiosity people may have.... kind regards from Asunción, Paraguay! :D

[danimalben]

You forgot to mention the strong relation Colombia and paraguay have. Colombia was the only nation who supported Paraguay in the war against Argentina, Brasil and Uruguay. They even said that every Colombian have Paraguayan citizenship and vice versa 🇨🇴🇵🇾

[HaikoEitzen]

Paraguayan here! Loved this, thank you! Unfortunately I'm not fluent in Guarani as I happen to be a part of that weird German-speaking Mennonite minority, but I'm proud to call myself a Paraguayan!

[bingwu]

love paraguay, from Taiwan. puro aguante paraguay, gente hermosas

[abigailmedina]

The word that can mean anything is "ma'era", ma'ena means feeling sorry for someone

[Lumpy]

I'm Taiwanese and Paraguay is our best friend in South America, and also antipodes of us!

[camilabernardes]

Saludos a la maravillosa gente de Paraguay!

¡País muy querido! 🇧🇷 ❤️ 🇵🇾

[zimgabriel]

A fun fact is since we have a lot of import taxes here in Brazil, and Paraguay has not, Ciudad del Este economy is based basically by Brazilians traveling to there and buying stuff for the half price.

(actually I've been there 3 times just to do that! 😂😂)