Or Villa Concepcion, the principal town and a river port of northern Paraguay, on the Paraguay river, 138 m. (2 34 m. by river) N. of Asuncion, and about 345 ft. above sealevel. Pop. (1895, estimate) io,000, largely Indians and mestizos. It is an important commercial centre, and a port of call for the river steamers trading with the Brazilian town of Corumba, Matto Grosso. It is the principal point for the exportation of Paraguay tea, or "yerba mate" (Ilex paraguayensis) . The town has a street railway and telephone service, a national college, a public school, a market, and some important commercial establishments. The neighbouring country is sparsely settled and produces little except forest products. Across the river, in the Paraguayan Chaco, is an English missionary station, whose territory extends inland among the Indians for many miles.