Institutions in Foz do Iguaçu are taking another step towards a tourist route on the border. The city has joined the Caminhos do Peabiru Tourist Route Program, run by the Paraná State Government.
The objective is to expand and strengthen ecological corridors, connect municipalities and boost the economy through regional tourism.
Peabiru in Foz do Iguaçu
In Foz do Iguaçu, the city government held the first meeting of the Working Group responsible for implementing the route in the municipality. One of the items on the agenda was the analysis of the mapping and development of the Peabiru Trail already carried out in Foz.
“As it is a long-distance trail, the project provides direct integration between Foz and other municipalities in the Iguaçu Falls and Itaipu Lake Trails Tourist Region,” says Tourism Secretary Jin Petrycoski.
Foz do Iguaçu's participation in the Caminhos do Peabiru route is an opportunity to promote sustainable tourism, the city argues. It is also an opportunity to value the region's cultural heritage and to rediscover its history.
Among the next steps, according to the prefecture, it is on the radar to begin collecting documents, maps, data and other information that will contribute, in the future, to the design of the route.
Peabiru Paths
Peabiru comes from Peabeyú, “old path of return” or “crushed grassy path”, in the Guarani language, according to Municipal News Agency. It was an ancestral route 3 thousand kilometers long, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The ancestral Peabiru passed through countries such as Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil. According to data from the State of Paraná and based on research on the subject, historical figures such as São Tomé, Aleixo Garcia and Cabeza de Vaca would have used the transnational route.
(With information from the city hall)
Marco Samaniego in the hub contacts between the Guaraníes del Atlántico and the Indigenous people of the Pacific: 1.- The food, the Pacific consume oysters, shellfish, snails, it consumes RAW, while the Atlantic consumes red meat and well cooked, 2.- Las Casas, while the Pacific Atlántico lived in chozas de mampostería de tacuaras y clay, the Pacific with large constructions of stones and well-defined walls and the third most important Kyse (Cuchillo) Cabaju (Caballo), those of the Pacific disappeared from their LANGUAGE, trying to recover but not the same PHONETICS.
MARCH 4, 1870 EL CNEL. JUAN BAUTISTA DELVALLE IS BEING GOLDEN ALONG WITH 200 PARAGUAYANS LUEGO OF BEING HECHOS PRISIONEROS POR LOS BRASILEROS.
Juan Bautista Delvalle, born in San Lorenzo del Campo Grande, on August 29, 1847, son of José Luis Delvalle and Francisca Sayas, brave and courageous student of the Derecho who had the opportunity to be admitted to Europe, but in the middle of the war in 1867 the knowledgeable ones who could not return via the Río de la Plata left Paris and heads to Panama to enter Paraguay via Bolivia, in a journey of 15 thousand kilometers through the cold Cordilleras de los Andes and the hot desert, until reaching Paso Pucu and presenting himself to Solano López, who is the designated successor of Don Saturnino Bedoya.
At the end of the war, the Delvalle division's objective was to protect the rearguard of our army during its retreat.
Delvalle and his second Colonel Gabriel Sosa; The third, the lieutenant colonel José María Romero in the February of 1870 found himself camping on the right bank of the Río Amambay in front of the Siete Cerros. There they camped on the right side of a hill.
The Brazilians from the position of Delvalle and a Paraguayan cowboy surnamed Gaona were buried, on March 4, 1870, they arrived there and with a discharge of a rifle they surprised the Paraguayans in Siete Cerros and they all ran to the mountains.
The Brazilians called them under false promises, advising them that they left the mountain that nothing would happen to them because Mcal López was dead and that the war was over.
The historian Anastasio Rolón Medina assures that on March 4th and when the war ended, Delvalle “with some 200 people who accompanied him” left a mountain to surrender without resistance, in a place known as Siete Cerros.
He hicieron against Brazilian troops commanded by Mayor Vasco Azevedo Freitas, who ordered the degüello of all Paraguayans.
Luego trapped fire in the pajal; so that those who did not die with weapons, died burned!
Simple mass murder, like many others recorded in the same days, put the bloody war officially concluded.
In the end, what was demonstrated by this and other criminal acts that was a war of extermination against the Paraguayan community and not a war against its government, since the Paraguayan who surrendered or was a prisoner (child, young, adult or elderly) ended up being shot, lanced or beheaded (in the case of women raped and killed asesinadas).
Image: Photo of Colonel Juan Bautista Delvalle.
Gabriel Sosa and José Romero embarked on the march towards Asunción. They walked three hundred kilometers through the jungle, eluding the encounter with Brazilian patrols. Gabriel Sosa is very sick. José Romero betrayed him behind his back, and the last plot behind him. Salen to the village of Igatimí, which is deserted. Gabriel Sosa dies. José Romero takes the corpse to the countryside. Dig with the sable a grave and clave a rough wooden cross that marks the tomb of your comrade. When he arrives in Asunción, he realizes that a young Englishwoman, recently returned from Europe, is investigating the fate of Gabriel Sosa. Return with her to Igatimí. I travel a thousand kilometers and ride a horse through a devastated country, often deserted, infested with bandits and desperate people.
In the Igatimí cemetery there is a tombstone that says:
COLONEL GABRIEL SOSA (1840-1870)
Wait for me!
Dorothy
El Colonel Gabriel Sosa, the last commander of the Villa Encarnación and the camp of Campichuelo Guerra de la Triple Alianza, traveled the Camino Real Peabiru Ñanemba'eva of the indigenous Guaraníes del Parana Y'gua. Camino Real del Centro, del Este de la Villa Encarnación today Ciudad de Encarnación, until we arrive first than the Troops of Brazilians who camped in the Church of San Joaquín Ciudad de Coronel Oviedo, the Valentía de los Hombres de Paraguay and a sadness when reading the Greatest History of the American Genocide caused by it Egoism, the Altanería of the Empire of Brazil and the evil of the Countries of Río de Plata.
Lic Silvio Sosa Historian
ENCARNACATION HISTORICAL AND DOCUMENTAL RESCUE CENTER.