San Bernardino, Paraguay

The town was founded in 1881 by German and Swiss immigrants, among them Santiago Schaerer, founder and first colony manager, and was renamed after Saint Bernard to honor Bernardino Caballero, president of Paraguay between 1880 and 1886.In the last decades of the nineteenth century was built the Hotel del Lago, where the German anti-Semitic activist Bernhard Förster spent the last six weeks of his life, before committing suicide on June 3, 1889 by taking an overdose of strychnine.Having one of the highest per capita income in the country, San Bernardino is the summer home site of traditional families from Greater Asunción.[citation needed] According to the Statistics, Surveys and Censuses Bureau of Paraguay, In 2012 San Bernardino has a total of 20,491 inhabitants.[2] Due to its colonization, the German and Spanish influences are visible and the city is predominantly white, where 85% are made up of whites of Italian, Spanish, German and Swiss descent, and roughly 15% are made up of mixed race (mestizo).
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