Navegación por el río Paraguay desde Concepción

Concepción is the last major port before the Paraguay River pushes into the vastness of the Chaco and the Pantanal. There are short launch trips across to the Chaco shore and, for those who want more, a floating hotel that sails from the port with sport-fishing or nature-watching groups for three nights: sunrises over the water, flocks of birds along the side channels and dinners on deck. Upstream lie Vallemí and, deep in the Pantanal, Fuerte Olimpo and Bahía Negra. River trips depend on the water level and on which operators are running each season.

For more than four decades (since 1980, according to its owners) the riverboat Aquidabán linked Concepción with Bahía Negra as a floating market, carrying passengers, supplies and goods to Puerto Casado, Vallemí and Fuerte Olimpo. It made its final voyage in December 2023, a casualty of falling passenger numbers and fuel costs, and in 2025 it sank while moored at a Concepción shipyard. Today there is no equivalent regular passenger service: river tourism carries on with private boats and floating hotels.