Editing Alto Paraná (section)

== Economy ==

The logging industry remains to be the most important activity in the area. Nowadays, the population is also involved in the industrial process of different varieties of wood, such as: cedar, yvyra pyta, lapacho, taperyva guasu, petereby, guatambu, incense, guaica and others. Another important activity is the plantation of pine as a form of reforestation. There's also the clearing of palm hearts.

About 700,000 hectares of land are utilized for agriculture. [[Soy]], [[maize]], [[wheat]], [[Mentha|mint]], [[cotton]], [[sugarcane]], [[tangerine]], [[orange (fruit)|sweet orange]], [[tomato]], [[manioc]], [[sweet potato]], [[rice]], [[potato]], [[carrot]], [[strawberry]], [[sunflower]], pea and [[Stevia|ka’a he’e]] (a sweetener and medical plant) are cultivated here.

In this department cows, pigs, cebú, and nelore are raised by ranchers. This industry occupies a place of growing importance. There are factories of oil, food, sausages, sawmills, rice and yerba mills, of ceramic products, and also dairy products.