Asunción, capital of Paraguay at 25.3°S, sits on the flat interior of South America with Bortle 7 city skies and quick access to dark country across the sparsely populated countryside. Bortle 3–4 conditions are reachable within an hour, and the vast Chaco region to the north-west offers Bortle 2 darkness under some of the continent's least light-polluted skies. At this southern latitude the galactic core stands high overhead in winter, and the Magellanic Clouds and Southern Cross are brilliant from a dark site. The subtropical climate brings humid summers; the drier, cooler winter months offer the clearest, most reliable nights.