Manorá

Manorá (or Manó Râ) is a barrio (neighbourhood) of Asunción, the capital of Paraguay. It has a population of 1,898 people.

España Ave. from Manora Condo complex balcony

Geography

Manorá is bordered near Santo Domingo, Las Lomas, San Jorge, Ycua Sati, San Cristobal, and Villa Morra.[1]

There are many stores around the area, including a TGI Fridays, and a McDonalds.[1]

Toponymy

The name is believed to have been coined by Roa Bastos in 1993. The name is Guarani for "a place of death". It could also possibly interpreted as "a place of dying", or "a place of the dead".[2]

España Ave. other side

Notable people

Emilio Gill - Brother of and member of the cabinet of Juan Bautista Gill (assassinated in 1877 in Manorá).[3]
Carlos Antonio López - president of Paraguay (born November 4, 1972 in Manorá).[4]
Francisco Solano López - president of Paraguay (born 1827 in Manorá).[5]

gollark: Isn't that *also* kind of bad? I mean, you're subject to departmental politics stuff probably, have "publish or perish" going on, etc.

gollark: "It's only real work if you do manual labour, because that was around longer and is thus evidently the only valid kind, and it looks more difficult to me."

gollark: Yes, that is silly people being silly.

gollark: You're not really paying them for either as much as just the fact that they can do/make the thing you want and you are, presumably, willing to pay the price they ask for. Going around trying to judge someone else's "worth" in some way is problematic.

gollark: The learning time is amortized over all the other programming stuff they do, and it's not like they would somehow unlearn everything if you didn't pay more. Still, it is somewhat complicated and, er, possibly impossible, although if people want to do it (they regularly do complex things anyway if they're interesting) then why not.

References

"Manorá". Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
Drozdowicz, Maksymilian. The Linguistic Image of the World of Guarani in Polish Translations of Prose (PDF). Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna. p. 196.
Ramos Davalos, Hermes (12 April 2020). "Helio Vera and Juan B. Gill: Between Fiction and History". ABC Color (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2020.
Bannon, John Francis; Dunne, Peter Masten (1950). Latin America, an Historical Survey. Science and culture texts (2 ed.). Bruce Publishing Company. p. 587. Retrieved 2016-02-25. [...] a wealthy creole landowner and reputed nephew of Francia, [...] Carlos Antonio Lopez.
Hanratty, Dannin M. and Meditz, Sandra W., editors. Paraguay: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1988.

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[:0-1] "Manorá". Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2020-07-28.

[2] Drozdowicz, Maksymilian. The Linguistic Image of the World of Guarani in Polish Translations of Prose (PDF). Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna. p. 196.

[3] Ramos Davalos, Hermes (12 April 2020). "Helio Vera and Juan B. Gill: Between Fiction and History". ABC Color (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2020.

[4] Bannon, John Francis; Dunne, Peter Masten (1950). Latin America, an Historical Survey. Science and culture texts (2 ed.). Bruce Publishing Company. p. 587. Retrieved 2016-02-25. [...] a wealthy creole landowner and reputed nephew of Francia, [...] Carlos Antonio Lopez.

[Hanratty,_Dannin_M_1988-5] Hanratty, Dannin M. and Meditz, Sandra W., editors. Paraguay: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1988.