Maps and battlefields

Cerro Corá valley

The last camp, now a national park.

National park: Decree 20698 of 11 February 1976
Area: 5,538 hectares (Law 2714 of 2005)
Location: Amambay Department, about 40 km from Pedro Juan Caballero
Every 1 March: Official Heroes’ Day ceremony

The valley, surrounded by hills and woods, was López’s last camp. Since 1976 it has been a national park: it protects the forest and the site of the battle of 1 March 1870. A trail of about 300 meters runs through the places of memory, with memorial headstones for the Marshal and Panchito and a large white cross. Every 1 March, Heroes’ Day, the official ceremony is held there.

‡ Disputed.The headstones are memorials: it is not known for certain where the remains of López and Panchito ended up, and most of the historians consulted doubt that the remains taken to the Panteón de los Héroes in 1936 are the Marshal’s.

Sources: Law 2714 of 2005, Biblioteca y Archivo del Congreso Nacional; La Nación (Paraguay), “Parque Nacional Cerro Corá, un lugar que conserva su esencia natural y memoria histórica” (2023) and on the Marshal’s remains (2021); Hoy, Heroes’ Day at Cerro Corá (2026).

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