The National University of Caaguazú-UNC @, was created by Law No. 3,198 / 07, issued on Saturday, May 4, 2007 whose Charter corresponds to No. 3.385 / 07 Law, promulgated on Friday, December 7, 2007 in order to have a decentralized State University and adapted to the Political, Economic and social reality of the region. The initiative of having a National University in the city of Coronel Oviedo was conceived at the beginning of the 80s and 90s the first bill comes through then Congressman Silvio Ovelar Benitez. In the 2000s they were installed more than five private Catholic universities with different careers, but the desire to provide greater opportunity for disadvantaged youth not wavered and again a Deputy National Ovetense Dr. Mario Soto Estigarribia present the project Bill to Parliament obtaining approval in the lower house, and with the strong support of Senator National Silvio Ovelar in the Senate's passage of the Act was finalized, this being subsequently promulgated by the President of the Republic of Coronel Oviedo native, the Dr. Nicanor Duarte Frutos.