VILLA RICA, the largest city in the interior of Paraguay, on the railway from Asuncion (70 m. N.W.) to Encarnacion.
Pop. (1933 est.) 35,26o. Situated in a rich agricultural region watered by the upper Tepicuary, with finely timbered mountains extending to the E. and W., Villa Rica has an important trade in
tobacco, oranges and yerba mate. It is to a great extent primitive, but contains some attractive buildings, including a college, a church, schools and a branch of the Agricultural Bank.