Concepción
Concepción is one of the seventeen departments that, together with Asunción, the Capital District, form the Republic of Paraguay. Its capital and most populated city is the homonymous Concepción. It is located northwest of the eastern region of the country, bounded on the north by Brazil, on the east by Amambay, on the south by San Pedro, on the west by the Paraguay river that separates it from Presidente Hayes and Alto Paraguay. With 18,051 km² it is the fifth largest department -behind Boquerón, Alto Paraguay, Presidente Hayes and San Pedro- and is the fifth least densely populated, ahead of Amambay, Ñeembucú, Presidente Hayes, Boquerón and Alto Paraguay, at least densely populated.