Isabel Arrúa Vallejos

Isabel Arrúa Vallejo or Vallejos (1913/1914-2006) was a Paraguayan teacher, diplomat and feminist. She was Paraguay's first woman with diplomatic rank, as attaché of the Embassy of Paraguay to Brazil from 1945 to 1948.

Life Isabel Arrua Vallejos was born in Villeta. (Some sources give her year of birth as 1913, and others give it as 1914.

In 1942 she entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She also worked at the Embassy of Paraguay in Washington, D.C., from 1949 to 1950. She was a national deputy and delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women.

She died in Asunción in 2006. In 2012 her life was celebrated in the Paseo de Ilustres, a public space in Villeta dedicated to the memory of ten people from the city.