The second one tells that it was Friar Luis de Bolaños in 1580, with the distinction of being the first of many reducciónes (Roman Catholic missions) of the Guaraní people in Paraguay.

Mengele and his wife flew to Altos in 1959, after the government of West Germany discovered their home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and he received the notification for arrest.

In 1960, he panicked after hearing news of the interest of the Nazi hunter in his capture, and with kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann, left Altos to go to Hohenau in the South of Paraguay.

The most important artisan production is the carving of timbó wood in the shape of animals, mythological beings and masks that are later painted with intense colors.

The route to access the city provides a beautiful landscape for visitors to enjoy, because it goes up a chain of mountains and looks down onto the Ypacaraí Lake and the exuberant vegetation surrounding it.

The rural hotel "La Grappa" offers visitors the natural environment of the mountainous country, in addition to nights of Paraguayan and Latin American folklore.

(Mariscal) Estigarribia of Fernando de la Mora where you may change to the LOMA GRANDE bus line towards San Lorenzo.