Paso Yobai
Nowadays there are 8,000 hectares under cultivation, and gold mining has replaced yerba mate as the most profitable economic activity.Yerba mate remains important in the local economy as there are several factories in the business creating brands like Sudetia, Aromatica, San Jose and Labrador.[1] While the cultivation of yerba mate, sugar cane, soybeans and other crops is still of great importance to the district, the discovery of gold encouraged many people to abandon agriculture in order to devote themselves to small scale mining.Many think that it will create good paying work and but others worry about whether they will be able to continue their small scale mining activities as the company expands its presence in the zone.Although rumors of gold had been floating for years in the area of Paso Yobai, only since the late 1990s have people actively begun mining.The gold rush began after an Ecuadorian man met a young woman from Paso Yobai in Asunción.According to the most recent data provided by the General Office of Statistics, Polls and Census, this is the demographic information for the Paso Yobai district: The total population is 25,067 inhabitants, 13.386 males and 11.682 females.