A third option is that the name is a combination of the Guaraní words, tova, and morotí - referring to an indigenous legend of a white faced warrior priest who would come to lead the tribes into a glorious era.

[2] One of the greatest heroes in Paraguayan history, the "Liberator of Paraguay", Captain Pedro Juan Caballero hailed from Aparypy, Tobati.

Caballero continued to serve his country after the War as one of the members of the governing Junta of Paraguay until the ascension of the "Perpetual Dictator", Doctor José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia.

The religious life of the town centers around the feast day of Mary of the Immaculate Conception, the Patron Saint of Tobatí, on December 8.

As he hid behind a tree the Indian prayed to the Holy Mother for protection in return for his devotion and promise to create an icon to glorify her.

Each year, a community service trip consisting of approximately 100 students from Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut travel to Tobatí.

The group sends smaller contingents of students and medical professionals at various times during the year.