Asunción (disambiguation)

Asunción (disambiguation)

Asunción is a Spanish word that means "assumption". In most cases the name refers to the Assumption of Mary. In the Wikipedia, the word may refer to:

Places

*Asunción, the capital city of Paraguay
*Asunción Capital District, a department of Paraguay
*Gran Asunción, the metropolitan area of the city of Asunción, Paraguay
*Asunción Mita, a municipality in the Jutiapa department of Guatemala
*La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, the formal name of Guatemala City, Guatemala
*Asunción District, a district of the Chachapoyas Province, Peru
*Asunción Province, a province of the Ancash Region in Peru
*La Asunción, a city in Nueva Esparta state of Venezuela
*Asuncion, Davao del Norte, a municipality in the province of Davao del Norte, Philippines
*Asuncion Island, one of the northern mariana islands

Persons

*José Asunción Silva (1865–1896), Colombian poet
*José Asunción Flores (1904–1972), Paraguayan composer
*María Asunción Aramburuzabala (1963—), the wealthiest woman in Mexico

Other

*Asunción Paraguay Temple, a Mormon temple in Asunción
*Estadio La Asunción, a stadium in Asunción Mita, Guatemala
*First Synod of Asunción, a synod of the Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese of Paraguay in 1603
*Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Zia, a Spanish Mission in the area that is now New Mexico, USA; established 1706
*Olimpia Asunción, a traditional Paraguayan sports club based in Asunción
*Treaty of Asunción, a 1991 economic treaty among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay


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