Asuncion from the river

The Western Region: is the bigger part of the national territory, located on the western side of the Paraguay river. It is usually called the Paraguayan Chaco and consists of an inmense plain of alluvial formation, with a slight descent from the counterforts of the Andes up to its furthest western point at the Paraguay river, on its eastern side. Its average altitude above sea level is 130 meters. Its soil, covered with mud, clay and sand, carried by the drainage channels and the tributaries of the Paraguay and Pilcomayo river, is especially suited for cattle raising and exceptionally for agriculture, with evident fertility in some regions of the Chaco.