San Bernardino is a town and distrito

Districts of Paraguay

||The departments of Paraguay are divided into districts .-List of districts:List of districts of Paraguay, showing the population and the department. This district was created after the 2002 Census....

 in Paraguay

Paraguay

Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...

, located on the shores of Ypacarai Lake

Ypacaraí Lake

Ypacaraí Lake is a major waterbody located in Paraguay about 25 km east of Asunción. The lake lies in the western part of the Asunción-Sapucai-Villarrica graben, a tectonic depression of Mesozoic age, and drains to the northwest trough Salado River into Paraguay River...

 in the Cordillera Department

Cordillera Department

-History:During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this area of the country was going through a serious crisis due to population bellicosity of the Indians from Chaco. The villagers from Tobatí located north of the river Pirapo then called, had to migrate south for the continue attacks by...

. It is a popular holiday resort for people from Greater Asunción

Gran Asunción

Gran Asunción , is the metropolitan area of the capital city of Paraguay, Asunción, which consists of the Capital and other surrounding cities such as San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso, Ñemby and Villa Elisa. The metropolitan area has more than 1.9 million...

, both Alfredo Stroessner

Alfredo Stroessner

Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, whose name is also spelled Strössner or Strößner , was a Paraguayan military officer and dictator from 1954 to 1989...

 and former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza

Anastasio Somoza

Anastasio Somoza may be:Nicaraguan dictators:* Anastasio Somoza García, * Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Also:* Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero, son of Somoza Debayle...

 have had lakehouse there.

History

The town was founded in 1881 by German immigrants ,the town was renamed after General Bernardino Caballero

Bernardino Caballero

Bernardino Caballero Melgarejo was the President of Paraguay from 1881 until 1886 and founder of the Colorado Party....

, president of Paraguay between 1880 and 1886.

The Hotel del Lago (Lake Hotel) in San Bernardino was where the German nationalist Dr. Bernhard Förster

Bernhard Förster

Bernhard Förster was a nineteenth century German teacher...

 spent the last 6 weeks of his life, before committing suicide on 3 June 1889 by taking an overdose of strychnine

Strychnine

Strychnine is a highly toxic , colorless crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide, particularly for killing small vertebrates such as birds and rodents. Strychnine causes muscular convulsions and eventually death through asphyxia or sheer exhaustion...

.

Tourism

This tourist peak of San Bernardino is from December to mid February, which is the summer season in the country, during this time young people from Asuncion and neighboring cities and towns meet around the main meeting points, which are clubs and pubs at night and public spaces in the morning.

San Bernardino is the summer home site of Gran Asunción

Gran Asunción

Gran Asunción , is the metropolitan area of the capital city of Paraguay, Asunción, which consists of the Capital and other surrounding cities such as San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso, Ñemby and Villa Elisa. The metropolitan area has more than 1.9 million...

traditional families.

The town contains a museum.

The first Mayor (Intendente) of the city was Rodolfo Guillermo Limprich Naumann, known for his tireless support to the community for nearly 35 years.

There are numerous social and sports clubs, where tourists gather in the summer.

Demography

According to the Statistics, Surveys and Censuses Bureau of the country San Bernardino has a total of 9,491 inhabitants, of which 3,877 live in its urban area.

Sources

• www.aventuraxtrema.com.py;
• World Gazeteer: Paraguay – World-Gazetteer.com
• DGEEC