The Province of Asunción

Provincial capital: Avila; 198,177
Other cities: Rosalinda (Santa Maria de Rosalinda); 87,654
Cortez; 77,795

Ethnicity: Spanish Alexandrian: 75%
French Alexandrian: 14%
Other: 11%

Religions: Roman Catholic: 95%
Other: 5%

Literacy Rate: 99% (1979)

Agriculture: sunflower seeds, lemons, soybeans, grapes, corn, tobacco, peanuts, tea, wheat; livestock, wheat.

Industries: food processing, tourism, construction.