Founding of Asuncion

Every year in Paraguay the 15th August is one of the countries largest and most important national holidays. It marks the anniversary of the founding of Asunción.
On the 15th August 1537 Juan de Salazar y Espinosa would have been quite unaware that the settlement he was about to found after turning his ship off the River Paraguay and into the Bay of Asunción would grow into the capital of an independent nation and survive as one of the oldest permanent cities in the whole of South America.