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Vallemí

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Practical info — Vallemí

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🌤 Weather — 5 days

📍 Nearby

Sights nearby

💡 Tips

Visit the Tres Cerros caves exclusively with an authorized local guide for your safety.
Arriving by the 'Aquidabán' boat from Concepción is a slow but very authentic river adventure.
Bring your own flashlight and sturdy shoes for exploring the cave systems.
Avoid the intense midday heat; excursions should ideally start in the early morning.
There are very few ATMs in town, so always carry enough cash (Guaraní) with you.

🍽 Food

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Surubí Fish

Enjoy freshly caught river fish at the small eateries (comedores) along the riverbank.

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Sopa Paraguaya

This savory corn cake is a local specialty and the first-rate side dish for meat.

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Chipa

This traditional cheese bread is often sold fresh by street vendors near the port area.

🛍 Shopping · 🧘 Quiet spots

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Port Market

Here you can find essential items and occasionally handmade goods from the region.

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Limestone crafts

In town, you can sometimes find small artworks made from the local limestone.

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Rio Paraguay bank

A quiet place to watch the sunset over the water away from the town center.

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Tres Cerros surroundings

The nature around the hills gives seclusion far from the factory noise.

Vallemí, a town in the Concepción Department in the far north of Paraguay, lies on the right bank of the Paraguay River near the border with Brazil and is known nationwide as the capital of Paraguay's cement industry. It was founded in 1928, when the Italian entrepreneur Giorgio Vallenari (after whom the name Vallemí is derived) discovered a large limestone deposit here and built a cement factory. Today it is the seat of the Industria Nacional del Cemento (INC), the largest and most important cement plant in Paraguay, which covers a significant share of the national demand for cement. With around 9 000 inhabitants Vallemí is a small but strategically important town. Economically it relies on cement production, lime quarrying, river shipping and small-scale agriculture. The town lies in a scenically impressive region with the Cerros Memby and Vallemí hills, whose limestone cliffs and caves are geological highlights. Notable sights include the cement plant, the historic parish church and the karst landscape with its dripstone caves.