The name of Katueté is attributed to Dr. Alejandro Encina Marín, who on a tour with the owners of the area looking for a suitable site for the creation of an urban center, expressed upon arriving at the place in the Guaraní language "katueté voi, ko ape oî porâta”, to the owners' statement about the benefits of the location of that site.

In the area there are important tributaries of the Paraná River, the Carapá River, in addition, the well-watered region has numerous water courses in its territory, such as the Tayi Caré streams and the Itabó stream, among other small water tributaries that They irrigate the region.

All these lands belonged to La Industrial Paraguaya, and were acquired by the Lunardelli group in the late sixties.

In the area the main crop is soy, wheat and cassava, constituting an important link in Paraguayan agricultural production and also a center for the development of a new cultural component, for the presence of the so-called brasiguayos, Paraguayan descendants of Brazilian settlers settled in the area.

The digitalization of the telephone exchanges of Salto del Guairá, Francisco Caballero Álvarez, Corpus Christi, Nueva Esperanza, Katueté and Curuguaty is enabled.