I received my site last wednesday. Its a semi-arid town in the department of Paraguari, and its got 75 houses in it. The land has that flat, sun-seared look to it that you see driving down the interstates at the end of summer, when all the grass has turned tan-copper but the trees still are green.
It´s basically one long road, very Spaghetti-Western-looking. The people there were incredibly nice and gung-ho when I met them. I was there for five days, and visited probably a third of the houses in the area. The main issues that the place is dealing with is water scarcity, high blood pressure, dental problems, and a scarcity of vegetables.
Pictures tomorrow.
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