Cateura

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| settlement_type = Asunción

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| subdivision_type = Paraguay

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Cateura is the name of the landfill of Asunción, created in 1984 by the municipality of the capital of Paraguay, whose name comes from the Cateura lagoon, which is located near the property, private access, which has become landfill.{{Cite web |title=La contaminación del vertedero Cateura data de hace más de 30 años |url=http://www.momarandu.com/amanoticias.php?a=7&b=0&c=148174 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402182028/http://www.momarandu.com/amanoticias.php?a=7&b=0&c=148174 |archive-date=2019-04-02 |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=www.momarandu.com}}

Its name is also associated with the surrounding community, which are the San Miguel, Republicano, San Cayetano, Santa Ana, Villa Colorada, Bañado Sur and Tacumbú neighborhoods,{{Cite web|url=https://www.geam.org.py/v3/blog/procicla-empresa-inclusiva-para-el-reciclaje/|title=» PROCICLA. Empresa inclusiva para el reciclaje. » geAm|website=www.geam.org.py}} which are flood zones, near the Paraguay River, located mainly to the south of Asuncion.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/economia/unas-55000-personas-viven-en-los-banados-de-asuncion-660712.html|title=Unas 55.000 personas viven en los bañados de Asunción - Economía - ABC Color|website=www.abc.com.py}}

Since September 2005,{{Cite web |url=https://www.empoparaguay.com/institucion |title=Empo Ltda y Asociados |access-date=2017-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019220544/https://www.empoparaguay.com/institucion |archive-date=2017-10-19 |url-status=dead }} the Cateura landfill is managed by Empo Ltda. And Associates, a concessionaire of the Municipality of Asunción, for the final disposal of solid waste.{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/problema-de-basura-lleva-26-anos-sin-solucion-en-el-vertedero-cateura-100138.html|title = Problema de basura lleva 26 años sin solución en el vertedero Cateura - Locales - ABC Color}} In the farm work associations of "hookers", as they are called the recyclers who use a hook to remove the rubbish.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/locales/la-sacrificada-vida-de-gancheros-de-cateura-para-ganarse-el-sustento-903013.html|title=La sacrificada vida de gancheros de Cateura para ganarse el sustento - Locales - ABC Color|website=www.abc.com.py}}

The Cateura landfill has become famous by the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, and its documentary Landfill Harmonic (2015).{{Cite web|url=http://matadornetwork.com/change/landfill-harmonic-a-story-of-creativity-hope-and-endurance-interview|title = Landfill Harmonic: A story of creativity, hope, and endurance [Interview]}} The original project was created in 2006 with the music school "Sonidos de Cateura", founded by the "Procicla" recycling program of the NGO Alter Vida, in partnership with the community program "Sounds of the Earth", of the association Tierranuestra.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ultimahora.com/gancheros-cateura-fabrican-guitarras-madera-reciclada-n40606.html|title = Gancheros de Cateura fabrican guitarras con madera reciclada| date=25 May 2007 }} While the recycled instruments began with materials of Cateura, but in the workshop of lutería of "Sounds of the Earth", in the neighborhood New City of Asunción, to six kilometers of the landfill.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.com.py/espectaculos/jovenes-musicos-en-el-marechal-1061687.html|title=Jóvenes músicos en el Marechal - Espectáculos - ABC Color|website=www.abc.com.py}} "Sounds of the Earth" it was created in 2002, by Luis Szaran.{{Cite web|url=https://www.treehugger.com/culture/orchestra-paraguay-makes-beautiful-music-trash.html|title = Culture}}

When the former academic coordinator of "[http://www.sonidosdelatierra.org.py/ Sounds of the Earth]", Favio Chávez, was dismissed in October 2011;{{cite web | url-access=limited |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/319642181710/10150329888416711 |archive-date = 2022-04-27| url = https://www.facebook.com/SonidosPY/posts/10150329888416711 |title = Sonidos de la Tierra on Facebook |website=Facebook}}{{cbignore}}{{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}} appropriated "Sounds of Cateura" and the project of recycled instruments, and in July 2012 announced its disengagement from the original program.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ultimahora.com/jovenes-cateura-van-panama-la-orquesta-reciclados-n547205.html|title = Jóvenes de Cateura van a Panamá con la orquesta de reciclados| date=23 July 2012 }} Currently, Favio Chavez is reported for alleged lack of transparency in the administration of donations, by original members of the community project.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hoy.com.py/espectaculos/lo-que-recauda-la-orquesta-de-reciclados-va-al-bolsillo-de-favio-chvez-denu|title = Diario HOY | "Lo que recauda la Orquesta de Reciclados va al bolsillo de Favio Chávez", denuncian|date = 13 February 2017}}