 A bust and plaque honouring Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko in the city of Encarnación, Paraguay. Beneath the biographical data (in Spanish and Ukrainian), the plaque reads: Homage to the Ukrainian pioneers who came to the area of Itapúa. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 40,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Itapúa, Alto Paraná, Asunción | |
| Languages | |
| Spanish, Ukrainian | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Ukrainian diaspora, Ukrainian Argentines, Ukrainian Brazilians, Ukrainian Venezuelans and Ukrainian Americans |
Ukrainians in Paraguay are an ethnic minority in Paraguay. In the mid-1990s, 5,000 to 8,000 Ukrainians lived in Paraguay, clustered in small communities near the southeastern city of Encarnacion, which borders the Argentine province of Misiones (the heartland of Ukrainian immigration to that country). The majority of Ukrainians in Paraguay work as farmers, cultivating rice, corn, wheat and yerba mate.[1]
- ^ Mykhailo Rubinec and Ann Lencyk Pawliczko. (1994). "Ukrainians in Paraguay." In Ann Lencyk Pawliczko (Ed.) Ukraine and Ukrainians Throughout the World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 455–458. ISBN 0-8020-0595-0