Paraguay has historically been home to many immigrants from around the world, especially after the Paraguayan War, although not as much as its neighbours Argentina and Brazil.
Itapúa Department, bordering Argentina, received large numbers of Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian immigrants.
In 1930 a large group of German Mennonites from Poland settled in the colony of Fernheim.
[2] In the 1930s the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland elaborated a plan of establishing a Polish colony in the triangle between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
The emigration to this area was officially supported, the government even bought some land in the region and initiated two Polish settlements.