Ilosuna · CC BY 1.0Cities · Boquerón · The Chaco and the Pantanal
Filadelfia is a surprise: in the middle of the Chaco scrubland, an orderly town of broad avenues and gardens appears, where you'll hear German and Plautdietsch (the Mennonites' Low German dialect) as often as Guaraní and Spanish. It's the headquarters of the Fernheim Cooperative, a central institution of the colony. Its museum circuit (Jakob Unger, Knelsenhaus, the Colony House, the Industrial Museum and the Menno Simons Hof complex with its Museum of Intercultural Encounter) tells the epic story of refugees who arrived with nothing and of their life alongside the Indigenous peoples. It has the best services in the Central Chaco.
Filadelfia (desvío a Filadelfia) · Boquerón
The best introduction to the Chaco: history, wildlife and Indigenous peoples in a bioclimatic building ringed by samu'u trees, with SENATUR tourist information.
Filadelfia · Boquerón
A Chaco natural history museum with birds, mammals, insects and Indigenous objects, grown from the collection of Jakob Unger and his son.
Filadelfia · Boquerón
A 1948 house turned into a Mennonite home museum, with furniture and utensils of the Chaco's first settler families.
Filadelfia · Boquerón
A 1933-1934 building raised by communal effort: it was the administrative seat of the Fernheim colony and is now its history museum.
Filadelfia · Boquerón
Agricultural and industrial machinery inside the Fernheim plant, with the 1957 refinery building as its centrepiece.
Filadelfia · Boquerón
A park at Filadelfia's east entrance with the settlers' first vehicles: the "Laurita" locomotive, the Mennonite cart and more.
Filadelfia · Boquerón
A park and cemetery for fallen Chaco War soldiers, about 5 km from Filadelfia; it supported Fortín Toledo's right flank.
Filadelfia
Plant-fiber bags woven by Indigenous women of the Chaco, and plates and spoons of fragrant palo santo wood.
Filadelfia
Bags and weavings of caraguatá fibre made by Nivaclé women, a skill handed from grandmothers to daughters.