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121 died, 75 of them being children under 14 years. Some 60 families returned to Canada. Eventually, they formed 14 villages. Over time, infrastructure was built alongside houses such as schools and churches. Today, the Menno Colony has about 9,000 descendants of the approximately 1,200 settlers, and a multicultural demographic including
Mennonites, indigenous Paraguayans, Latin Paraguayans, and other smaller groups.
845:. The members of the Colonia Menno (of which Loma Plata is the current largest town and administrative center), settled first in Canada until a universal, compulsory, secular education was implemented in 1917 that required the use of the English language. Conservative Mennonites saw this as a threat to the religious basis of their community. In 1927, 1,743 pioneers came from Canada to Paraguay, turning the arid
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Today, the hospital in Loma Plata is a modern health facility and is part of the services provided by the
Asociacion Civil Chortitzer Komitee. It does not provide services exclusively to Mennonite colony members. Outward specialists come to the colony at scheduled times throughout the year to provide
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In 1937, Loma Plata emerged as the colony center, and a colony office was built (currently the Post office). Loma Plata is a
Spanish name. Some settlers rejected it and petitioned for a German name. Loma Plata was unofficially renamed "Sommerfeld" but reverted to its publicly recognized name of Loma
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Loma Plata contains one of the 4 hospitals in the
Department of Boquerón. It was constructed in 1948. The work and costs were largely covered voluntarily and with donations. The first building had a size of 17x50 feet with a consultation room, a laboratory, a pharmacy, and three rooms for patients.
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The first and biggest church building was built in
Osterwick outside Loma Plata. Today there are several German-speaking Mennonite churches as well as Spanish-speaking churches. Some German-speaking Churches are Emmanuelgemeinde, Elimgemeinde, Mennonitengemeinde, Bethelgemeinde, Hoffnung für Alle,
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With no railway, the settlers traveled with oxen carts through underdeveloped roads. The gradual move to the settlement area started in April 1928. Initially, some families lived in wilderness camps, while many still lived in Puerto Casado. Many became sick due to the lack of medical care, whereof
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There are also several private medical clinics in the town, some with doctors that work privately as well as in the hospital. There are dental clinics as well. The pharmacies are all private, except the pharmacy at the hospital, which belongs to the
Asociacion Civil Chortitzer Komitee.
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Mennonites' arrival was not properly prepared for by the Casado complex; the land had not been surveyed, no railroad had been constructed in the settlement location, and settlement was delayed by 16 months during which the Mennonites stayed in
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There is a health clinic at the hospital as well as a private health clinic in Loma Plata. Loma Plata has a nursing school where students can obtain a degree as licensed nurses in cooperation with
Universidad Evangelica de Paraguay.
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Loma Plata has a museum with an outdoor exhibit of early farming equipment, a typical pioneer house, and a photographic exhibit on the colony's history. Guided tours are given in German, Plattdeutsch, Spanish, and
English.
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The Rodeo Club Isla Po'i, which belongs to the breeders' association in
Colonia Menno, annually exhibits on June 12. The exhibit includes developments in agriculture and farming equipment, amongst other sponsors.
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The tourist office is situated in a traditional building on the main street, north of the cooperative's supermarket. The tourist office screens a film on the founding of the colony daily.
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into fertile farmland. It was the first Mennonite colony in the region. Some years later, more Mennonite immigrants from Germany and Russia arrived in the Chaco area and founded the
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Tours are available to the meat workers, Frigochorti. The slaughtering process can be viewed through glass windows as it happens.
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975:"Proyección de la población por sexo y edad, según distrito. Revisión 2015"
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1051:Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
1091:Russian Mennonite diaspora in South America
1076:Populated places in the Boquerón Department
999:"Loma Plata, Boquerón, Paraguay Climate"
897:Residents of Loma Plata are engaged in
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269:. It is the main town of the
873:Plata within a dozen years.
292:Climate data for Loma Plata
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765:Average precipitation days
551:Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
411:Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
261:. It is located 407km from
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89:22.38333°S 59.83333°W
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94:-22.38333; -59.83333
61:Location in Paraguay
987:on 16 October 2015.
814:Weather and Climate
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1070:Categories
1009:27 January
960:References
889:churches.
767:(≥ 1.0 mm)
244:Loma Plata
225:(595)(492)
169:Population
152:Intendente
145:Government
126:Department
55:Loma Plata
23:Loma Plata
275:Mennonite
221:Area code
183:Time zone
161:Elevation
80:59°50′0″W
77:22°23′0″S
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249:distrito
131:Boquerón
119:Paraguay
973:DGEEC.
926:Tourism
893:Economy
855:Neuland
823:History
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