Asunción

Meanwhile, it hasn't been dry down toward places like Paraguay.

This is a 48-hour loop where we saw storms really popping up around the capital of Paraguay, Asunción.

In fact, here's a look at some video to show you what was taking place on the ground.

People there were caught in large hailstorms on Saturday as severe weather swept through.

Weather officials said that the severe weather was typical of the spring season in South America's southern cone, but the El Niño weather pattern could make those storms even stronger.

Looking at some rain, some storms moving on through as we go through the day on Monday here.

Thunderstorms with a high of 24 in Asunción for Monday.

Hope you have a good day wherever you are.

And one of my dear friends, sadly now departed, Juan Mazar Barnett, who was an Argentine ornithologist.

We met him in Asuncion at a conference and got on well enough for him to drop whatever he was doing in Buenos Aires and come and join the team with a friend of his.

called bernabe and another friend called mark pierman who's quite quite a well-known virtual leader and field guide author so those three kind of joined our our group in paraguay and we were surveying the cerrados which is sort of like sort of savannah with palm trees of a place called aguara new which is, I think it means maned wolf or something like that.

And that's in the east of the Baracaju Reserve that I mentioned a little bit earlier.

And the team made some great impacts and changes.

But when you're talking to a country manager in Asuncion who's got five couriers and six fans, he has to or she has to feel as important as anyone else in the organization.

So I think that was fundamentally important.

You've got to give them the belief and understand the value that you're trying to exude has to be represented, A, through the brand, but secondly and more importantly, through the people.

The following is a list of the principal pictures taken in the wilds by Second Lieutenant Thomas Hayes.

The Docket Buenos Aires, Hill Parana, Rosario, Asuncion, Brazilian Frontier with Paraguay, The Caranda Palms, Porto Morcino, Corumba, Expedition Leaving for the First Hunt on the River Tecari, The River Tecari with its Birds, Waterfowl, and Caiman, Colonel Roosevelt Firing on a Caiman, Porto de Hechiro, The Expedition Leaving for a Hunt on the Fazenda das Palmeiras, At the Fazenda das Palmeiras, Colonel Roosevelt Presents the Skin of the First Jaguar, Journey on the River Sao Lourenco and Hunting on the Same River.

Marshlands on the River Paraguay and the Gaiva Lake.

In Caseiras.

A little before one o'clock on the afternoon of the 11th, we anchored in front of the mouth of the river Apa, where we were to await the arrival of Mr. Roosevelt and his party.

From the point where we lay at anchor, the river Paraguay extends its course downstream in one long straight line, forming one of those stretches which, in the picturesque language of the dwellers on riverbanks, is called esteraro.

We knew that the American expedition had left Asuncion on the 8th, on board the Paraguayan gunboat Adolfo Requiome.

Therefore, barring accidents on the two shallows which hamper navigation on this river, a little before and above the city of Concepcion, it could now not be long before the anxiously awaited moment of sighting our future guests would arrive.

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Well, John, in, in 15, in 1580, uh, an expedition left from Asunción, my capital, to, to, uh, found Buenos Aires, and on that expedition, they took one bull and seven cows.

That was the first cattle that arrived to Argentina, so it came from Paraguay.

I knew you'd have the history.