Heavy rain on 5 May 2014 forced around 1,000 people to evacuate their homes in the department of Misiones in southern Paraguay after the Tebicuary River (Río Tebicuary), a tributary of Paraguay River, burst its banks. Some villages were completely cut off by flooding in the area.
The department of Ñeembucú was also hit, with as many as 40,000 people affected by flooding.
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Paraguay suffered from flooding earlier this year, in February 2014, where the capital Asunción and the surrounding Gran Asunción metropolitan area were hit.
