A City A Day

Ciudad del Este  ( Spanish  for  City of the East ) is the second largest city in  Paraguay  and capital of the  Alto Paraná Department , situated on the  Rio Paraná . As of 2008 its population was of 320,782. Founded in 1957, it was originally called  Puerto  Flor de Lis , then until 1989  Puerto Presidente Stroessner , after  Alfredo Stroessner . The city is the seat of the  Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad del Este . CDE was, according to Forbes, the third commercial city in the world between 1990 and 2002. [ citation needed ]  The city is the headquarters of the company that operates the nearby  Itaipu Dam . [ citation needed ]  The city's economy (and  Paraguay's economy  as well) relies heavily on the mood of the  Brazilian economy , as 95% of Paraguay's share of the energy generated by the  Itaipu Dam  is sold to Brazil (for US$300 million), and that every day many Brazilia...

Nuestra Señora Santa María de la Asunción  ( Spanish pronunciation:  [asunˈsjon] ,  Guarani :  Paraguay ) is the  capital and largest city of  Paraguay . The  Ciudad de Asunción  is an autonomous capital district not part of any  department . The  metropolitan area , called  Gran Asunción , includes the cities of  San Lorenzo ,  Fernando de la Mora ,  Lambaré ,  Luque ,  Mariano Roque Alonso ,  Ñemby ,  San Antonio ,  Limpio ,  Capiatá  and  Villa Elisa , which are part of the  Central Department . The Asunción metropolitan area has more than 2  million  inhabitants. The Municipality of Asunción is listed on the Asunción Stock Exchange , as  BVPASA :  MUA , a unique feature of any city. It is the home of the national government, principal port, and the chief industrial and cultural centre of the country.

Arica  is a  commune  and a port city with a population of 196,590 in the  Arica Province  of northern  Chile 's  Arica y Parinacota Region . It is Chile's northernmost city, being located only 18 km (11 mi) south of the border with  Peru . The city is the  capital of both the Arica Province and the Arica and Parinacota Region. Arica is located at the bend of South America's western coast known as the Arica Bend or Arica Elbow. At the location of the city two lush valleys that dissect the  Atacama Desert converge:  Azapa  and  Lluta . These valleys provides fruit for export. [3] Arica is an important port for a large inland region of South America. The city serves a  free port  for Bolivia and manages substantial part of that country's trade. [3]  In addition it is the end station of the Bolivian  oil pipeline  beginning in  Oruro . [3]  The city's strategic position is ...

Temuco  is a  city  and  commune ,  capital  of the  Cautín Province  and of the  Araucanía Region  in southern  Chile . The city is located 670 kilometres (416 miles) south of  Santiago  at the heart of the modern Araucanía Region and  historic Araucanía —the land of the  Mapuche  who  resisted Spanish conquest . Temuco was founded by Chilean military in Mapuche territory 1881 during the  occupation of Araucanía  and grew quickly into one of Chile's main cities. Temuco grew as a consequence of the livestock, wheat and forestry boom that its surrounding countryside experienced between 1890 up to the 1940s. Nobel Poets  Gabriela Mistral  and  Pablo Neruda  both lived in Temuco for some time. Temuco's central place in Araucanía with easy access to the Andean valleys and the coast makes it a hub for agricultural, livestock and forestry operations as well as communi...

La Serena  is a  city  and  commune  in northern  Chile , capital of the  Coquimbo Region . Founded in 1544, it is the country's second oldest city after the national capital,  Santiago , located 471 km (293 miles) to the south. [3]  It has a communal population of 190,716 (2006 projection, and 400,000 for the  Greater La Serena ) area, the country's fourth largest conurbation  (pop. 300,000, 2002 census), which includes nearby  Coquimbo  with an area of 1,892.80 square kilometres (730.81 sq mi). It is one of the fastest-growing areas of Chile, witnessing a population increase of 32.6% between 1992 and 2002. The city is an important tourist destination, especially during the summer, where people go to visit the beaches. It is in the headquarters of the  University of La Serena  and also is home to the  Roman Catholic Archdiocese of La Serena , one of five Catholic Archdioceses of the C...

Valparaíso  ( / ˌ v æ l p ə ˈ r aɪ z oʊ / ,  Spanish:  [balpaɾaˈiso] ) is a city, port, and  commune  of  Chile , center of its third largest conurbation  ( Greater Valparaíso ). It is located 69.5 miles (111.8 km) northwest of  Santiago [3]  and is one of the country's most important seaports. The city is the capital of the  Valparaíso Province  and the  Valparaíso Region . Although Santiago is Chile's official capital, the  National Congress of Chile  meets in Valparaíso since 1990. Valparaíso played a very important geopolitical role in the second half of the 19th century, when the city served as a major stopover for ships traveling between the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  oceans by crossing the  Straits of Magellan . Always a magnet for European immigrants, Valparaíso mushroomed during its golden age, when the city was known by international sailors as “Little  San Francisco ...