State · 1811 – present
Paraguay
A state of 1811 – present — 215 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. The atlas records 70 things within it — wars and battles 11 · regime change 1 · treaties 1 · people 57. Its line of rulers holds 57 people, 50 with dated terms.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 215 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 57
- the President of Paraguay
- Most ground
- 403,400 km²
- in 1936
- Within it
- 70
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 9
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of President of Paraguay - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia | 1813 – 1814 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Manuel Antonio Ortiz | 1840 – 1841 | 1 year | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Carlos Antonio López | 1844 – 1862 | 18 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Francisco Solano López | 1862 – 1870 | 8 years | died in battleWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Facundo Machaín | 1870 – 1870 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Juan Bautista Gill | 1874 – 1877 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Higinio Uriarte | 1877 – 1878 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Cándido Bareiro | 1878 – 1880 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Adolfo Saguier | 1880 – 1881 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Bernardino Caballero | 1881 – 1886 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Patricio Escobar | 1886 – 1890 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Juan Gualberto González | 1890 – 1894 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Marcos Morínigo | 1894 – 1894 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Juan Bautista Egusquiza | 1894 – 1898 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Emilio Aceval | 1898 – 1902 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Andrés Héctor Carvallo | 1902 – 1902 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Juan Antonio Escurra | 1902 – 1904 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Juan Bautista Gaona | 1904 – 1905 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Cecilio Báez | 1905 – 1906 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Benigno Ferreira | 1906 – 1908 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Emiliano González Navero | 1908 – 1910 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Manuel Gondra | 1910 – 1911 | 1 year | resignedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Albino Jara | 1911 – 1911 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Liberato Marcial Rojas | 1911 – 1912 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Emiliano González Navero | 1912 – 1912 | under a year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Pedro Peña | 1912 – 1912 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Eduardo Schaerer | 1912 – 1916 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Manuel Franco | 1916 – 1919 | 3 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| José Pedro Montero | 1919 – 1920 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Manuel Gondra | 1920 – 1921 | 1 year | resignedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Eusebio Ayala | 1921 – 1923 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Luis Alberto Riart | 1924 – 1924 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Eligio Ayala | 1924 – 1928 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| José Patricio Guggiari | 1928 – 1931 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Emiliano González Navero | 1931 – 1932 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| José Patricio Guggiari | 1932 – 1932 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Eusebio Ayala | 1932 – 1936 | 4 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Rafael Franco | 1936 – 1937 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Félix Paiva | 1937 – 1939 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| José Félix Estigarribia | 1939 – 1940 | 1 year | died by accidentWikidata's manner of death | |
| Higinio Morínigo | 1940 – 1948 | 8 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Juan Manuel Frutos | 1948 – 1948 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Juan Natalicio González | 1948 – 1949 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Raimundo Rolón | 1949 – 1949 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Felipe Molas López | 1949 – 1949 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Federico Chaves | 1949 – 1954 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Tomás Romero Pereira | 1954 – 1954 | under a year | served out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Alfredo Stroessner | 1954 – 1989 | 35 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Luis González Macchi | 1999 – 2003 | 4 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Nicanor Duarte | 2003 – 2008 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Fernando Lugo | 2008 – 2012 | 4 years | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Federico Franco | 2012 – 2013 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Horacio Cartes | 2013 – 2018 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Mario Abdo Benítez | 2018 – 2023 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Santiago Peña | 2023 – in office | in office since 2023 | still in office |
57 rulers, 50 with terms dated as terms, covering 1813 – 2023. Median reign 1.5 years. 9 of 54 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.66, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
322,300 km² in 1811, 403,400 km² in 2021; at its largest 403,400 km² in 1941. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
.svg/120px-Flag_of_Paraguay_(1988%E2%80%931990).svg.png)
flag, undatedFlag of Paraguay (1988–1990) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Paraguay_(1812-1826).svg.png)
flag, 1812 – 1825Flag of Paraguay (1812-1826) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · It Is Me Here ( talk ) 
coat of arms, from 1820Coat of arms of Paraguay · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Paraguay_(1826-1842).svg.png)
flag, 1826 – 1879Flag of Paraguay (1826-1842) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Paraguay_(1842%E2%80%931954).svg.png)
flag, 1842 – 1954Flag of Paraguay (1842–1954) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Paraguay_(1954%E2%80%931988).svg.png)
flag, 1954 – 1988Flag of Paraguay (1954–1988) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Paraguay_(1990%E2%80%932013).svg.png)
flag, 1990 – 2013Flag of Paraguay (1990–2013) · Public domain 
flag, from 2013Flag of Paraguay · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Paraguay_(reverse).svg.png)
flag, from 2013Flag of Paraguay (reverse) · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1800 – 189950 rows · 8 wars and battles
- Francisco Solano López · ruler · 1827 – 1870
- José Félix Estigarribia · ruler · 1888 – 1940
- Eusebio Ayala · ruler · 1875 – 1942
- Bernardino Caballero · ruler · 1839 – 1912
- Emilio Aceval · ruler · 1853 – 1931
- Federico Chaves · ruler · 1882 – 1978
- José Patricio Guggiari · ruler · 1884 – 1957
- Cándido Bareiro · ruler · 1833 – 1880
and 42 more in the atlas.
1900 – 199916 rows · 2 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Alfredo Stroessner · ruler · 1912 – 2006
- Horacio Cartes · ruler · 1956 – present
- Fernando Lugo · religious leader · 1951 – present
- Federico Franco · ruler · 1962 – present
- Nicanor Duarte · ruler · 1956 – present
- Santiago Peña · ruler · 1978 – present
- Juan Carlos Wasmosy · ruler · 1938 – present
- Luis González Macchi · ruler · 1947 – present
and 8 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20991 row · 1 wars and battles
- Insurgency in Paraguay · war · 2005
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood215 years
stood longer than 64% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held403,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 70% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century1.4
had more wars on record per century than 96% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median2 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 5% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record57
has more rulers on record than 98% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1789 – 2048, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1936, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q733 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.