Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción, Botanical garden and zoo in Asunción, Paraguay.

Covering 275 hectares, this facility combines natural forest areas with specialized sections for native and international plant collections, alongside enclosures housing regional wildlife from different South American ecosystems.

German scientists Carlos Fiebrig and Ana Gertz founded the botanical garden in 1919, converting the former estate of President Carlos Antonio López into a research center dedicated to tropical botany and zoology.

The grounds serve as an educational center where schools and universities conduct lessons on Paraguay's native flora and fauna, while research programs focus on preserving threatened plant species through propagation and study.

The nursery, or vivero, sits behind the Casa Alta and is open to the public, though few visitors find it. It holds more than 500 species, many of them medicinal, and staff study their cultivation, harvest and flowering times. The work is supported by the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of Geneva.

The zoo's emblem is the Taguá, a peccary of the Paraguayan Chaco once thought extinct and recorded again in the 1980s. The natural history museum occupies the Casa López, the 1840s country house of President Carlos Antonio López, now listed in Asunción's catalogue of protected buildings.