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Santiago Ara in Santiago
Santiago Ara is a patronal celebration honoring Santiago Apostol, patron saint of the town of Santiago in Paraguay's Misiones department, organized with support from the local municipality. Available sourcing is thin, describing only a second edition in July 2023, distinct from the town's much better documented Fiesta de la Tradicion Misionera held separately each February.
Santiago, a small town in Paraguay's Misiones department near the Argentine border, is best known internationally for the Fiesta de la Tradicion Misionera, a February gaucho-culture festival now decades old that draws visitors from across the tri-border region shared by Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil.