The Spanish missions in South America comprise a series of Jesuit

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outposts established by

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Catholics in order to spread the

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among the local natives.

Missions

Argentina

* Mission San Ignacio Miní (1632), in

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* Mission Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana (1637), in Misiones Province * Mission Nuestra Señora de Loreto (1610), in Misiones Province * Mission Santa María la Major (1626), in Misiones Province * Mission Candelaria * Mission Corpus * Mission San Carlos *

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* Mission Martires * Mission San Javier * Mission Conception * Mission Apostoles * Mission Santo Tomé * Mission Yapeiu * Mission La Cruz *

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(1615), in Córdoba

Bolivia

* Mission San Javier * Mission Concepción * Mission

San Ignacio de Velasco San Ignacio de Velasco, is the capital of the José Miguel de Velasco Province and the San Ignacio de Velasco Municipality in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia. History The Jesuit mission of San Ignacio de Velasco was founded in 1748 by the ...

* Mission Santa Ana de Velasco * Mission San Miguel de Velasco * Mission San Rafael de Velasco * Mission San José de Chiquitos * Mission Santiago de Chiquitos * Mission San Juan Bautista * Mission

Santo Corazón Santo Corazón is a village in San Matías Municipality in Ángel Sandoval Province, Santa Cruz Department, eastern Bolivia. The mission of Santo Corazón is one of the Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos. Santo Corazón has a population of 774 as ...

* Mission

San Ignacio de Zamucos San Ignacio de Zamucos or San Ignacio was a Jesuit mission in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia that was founded in 1724 and abandoned in 1745. The inhabitants of the mission were the Zamucoan-speaking Ayoreo. Location The ruins of San Ignacio de Za ...

Brazil

Missions in the ''Banda Oriental'' in southern Brazil. The ''Banda Oriental'' was finally divided by the Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1777 between Spanish and Portuguese domains, the western portion becoming part of what is today state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the eastern portion becoming part of what is today Uruguay. * Mission São Miguel das Missões (São Miguel Arcanjo) (1687), the chief mission of the seven in southern Brazil * Mission Santo Ângelo (1706) * Mission São Francisco de Borja (1682) * Mission São Nicolau * Mission São Luiz Gonzaga * Mission São Lourenço Mártir (1690) * Mission São João Batista (1697). (Note: The above are Portuguese translations of the original names) There were also 7 Spanish Missions (out of 30 or so in Viceroyalty of Peru east of the Andes) constructed along tributaries in the Upper Solimoes area of what later became State of Amazonas, Brazil, between 1686 and 1689 by Jesuit Padre

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among the

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indigenous peoples. Some of these were moved upstream into Peru due to pressure from the '' Bandeirantes'' slave raiders; the rest were destroyed by Portuguese forces between 1700 and 1711. * Mission San Joaquin de los Omagua, later moved upstream into Loreto, Peru * Mission San Pablo, later

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* Mission San Cristoval * Mission San Francisco Xavier * Mission Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Amazonas) * Mission Traguatua * mission de aldea pequenas (27 small villages constituting one mission) Spanish missions in the lower Amazon: * Mission San Pedro, later the Portuguese fort of

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* Nuestra Señora de las Nieves de Yurimaguas

Paraguay

* Mission San Ignacio Guazù (1609) * Mission Santa Rosa de Lima (1698) * Mission Santa Maria da Fé (1647) * Mission San Cosme y Damian (1652), also an astronomic observatory * Mission Santiago (1651) * Mission Itapua (present-day Encarnación) * Mission Jesus de Tavarangué (1685) * Mission La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná (1706), near present-day Encarnación

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