La Colmena, Paraguay La Colmena, Paraguay La Colmena is a town and "distrito" in the Paraguarí Department of Paraguay. It is the first Japanese colony of the country. La Colmena is located in the west region of the Paraguarí department, 132 km from Asunción, the capital of the country. It was originally a Japanese colony, but now many native Paraguayans are currently residents. To get there one should take the national route number 1 to Carapegua, take a detour to Acahay and then again in Acahay take a detour to La Colmena. The town contains the southern Coffin Factory Co. of Southern America
Politics of Paraguay Politics of Paraguay Politics of Paraguay takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic ( The National Constitution mandates a separation of powers in three branches. Executive power is exercised solely by the President. Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of the National Congress. The Judiciary power is vested on Tribunals and Courts of Civil Law and a nine-member Supreme Court of Justice, all of them independent of the executive and the legislature. The Economist Intelligence Unit has rated Paraguay as "flawed democracy" in 2016. Paraguay's highly public government was fundamentally changed by the 1992