Get the everyday stuff sorted
How do you pay for the bus? Where do you get a SIM? What should you check before booking a ride?
Find the steps and official links here, then get on with your day.
Information checked against official provider and government sources on 8 September 2026.
Get a bus card and check your route
Buying and using Más Tarjeta
Más Tarjeta is an electronic payment card for public transport. Its current listed purchase price is Gs. 25,000, including one complimentary journey.
- Use the official map to find an authorised sales or recharge point.
- Buy your card and add credit for your journeys.
- Tap the card on the bus validator to pay from your balance.
- Link the card in the Más app if you'd like to check its balance and transactions on your phone.
The provider's website also explains how to start recovering your balance if your card is lost or damaged.
Looking up the bus
The Más Tarjeta Billetaje app lists itineraries and current positions for its affiliated buses. Jaha also offers a bus-location app for Android and iPhone.
Check that the service you need appears in the app. Match the route and direction to your destination, and identify where you'll get off before boarding.
Get the Más Tarjeta app for Android
Book a ride across Asunción
Uber offers rides in Asunción. Enter your actual pickup point and destination to see the options available for that journey.
View Uber's Asunción service page
Before you request
- Create or sign in to your account.
- Enter your destination and check the address.
- Confirm the pickup pin. Move it if it points to the wrong entrance.
- Review the displayed price, vehicle option, and selected payment method.
- Request the ride and follow the driver's arrival in the app.
Before getting in, match the number plate, vehicle, and driver to the details shown in your booking.
Get mobile data with a prepaid SIM
Activating a Tigo SIM
Tigo offers a self-activation process for its auto-activation SIM cards.
Before buying, check which identification documents the process accepts. Tigo provides instructions for Paraguayan identity cards and for supported passports or foreign identity documents. Its guide lists the countries supported by that second process.
To activate:
- Insert the new SIM. Tigo instructs dual-SIM users to insert only the SIM being activated during this process.
- Open the activation page shown in Tigo's guide.
- Scan or enter the SIM barcode and choose your document type.
- Follow the document-photo and face-verification steps.
- Check your details and complete the activation.
Tigo says you'll receive a message with your assigned number when activation is complete.
Adding data afterwards
Mi Tigo lets you recharge, buy data packages, and check usage. Compare the data allowance and validity period before choosing a package.
Check the weather before an outdoor plan
Paraguay's Dirección de Meteorología e Hidrología publishes forecasts for Asunción and current weather notices.
Check the forecast for the time you'll be out. If you're organising something outdoors, agree on an indoor alternative or say when you'll make the decision to postpone.
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