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Paso Pucú

López’s headquarters facing Tuyutí.

Paso Pucú
The headquarters at Paso Pucú. Reconstruction.
Function
Headquarters of Marshal López
Period
From 1866 to early 1868 ‡
Location
Ñeembucú, north of Estero Rojas, on the road to Humaitá
Today
Historic site: headquarters, field hospital and cemetery, restored in 2020

From this headquarters, López planned the attack at Tuyutí and directed the defense of the Humaitá Quadrilateral. There he signed promotions and orders, had a field hospital and a cemetery with a chapel built, and there José Eduvigis Díaz died on 7 February 1867. During the siege, Caxias’s headquarters at Tuyú Cué was about three kilometers away: the closest the two commanders came to each other in the whole war.

‡ Disputed.Dates when it was set up and abandoned: the National Archive holds promotions signed there between June and December 1866, and López left the area in March 1868, but the exact day was not found. ◊ No images of the headquarters survive: the appearance in the plate is a reconstruction.

Sources: Archivo Nacional de Asunción, promotions signed at the Paso Pucú Headquarters (1866); ABC Color, historic sites of Ñeembucú (2022); Última Hora, restoration of historic sites in Ñeembucú (2020); “Siege of Humaitá”, English Wikipedia.

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