PARAGUAY 
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never has revived. Recent revolutions have 
set it back still further and whatever of good 
may come to this benighted land must be writ 
ten in the future tense. 
Paraguay is almost an inland country, hav 
ing but one outlet to the sea in the Parana 
River. Its 196,000 square miles of territory 
is bounded on the north by Brazil and Bolivia; 
on the west and south by Argentine, and on the 
east by Argentine and Brazil. The Paraguay 
River runs directly through its territory from 
south to north dividing it into two sections, 
Western Paraguay, or the Chaco, and East 
ern Paraguay. It is well watered with many- 
small streams, while toward the north and east 
are mountain chains. 
The climate of Paraguay is so equable that 
the country is sometimes called the “Sanitar 
ium.” The two seasons are the rainy and the 
dry. It never snows in this land and flowers 
in great variety and a riot of color bloom con 
stantly. The southern two-thirds are in the 
Temperate Zone, the northern one-third in the 
Tropic Zone.