Apóstoles is a city in the
province
A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
of
Misiones
Misiones (, ''Missions'') is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by Paraguay to the northwest, Brazil to the north, east and south, and Corrientes P ...
, Argentina. It has 40,858 inhabitants as per the , and is the seat of government of Apóstoles Department. It is located on the southwest of the province, 60 km south from the provincial capital
Posadas and 27 km from the international
Argentina–Brazil border.
Apóstoles is the National Capital of
yerba mate
Yerba mate or yerba maté (), ''Ilex paraguariensis'', is a plant species of the holly genus native to South America. It was named by the French botanist Augustin Saint-Hilaire. The leaves of the plant can be steeped in hot water to make a bev ...
, and hosts an annual festival dedicated to this plant, the basis of the popular ''
mate'' infusion.
The town was established as a
Jesuit reduction
Reductions (, also called ; ) were settlements established by Spanish rulers and Roman Catholic missionaries in Spanish America and the Spanish East Indies (the Philippines). In Portuguese-speaking Latin America, such reductions were also c ...
in 1652. The first wave of
immigrants
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents. Commuters, tourists, and other short- ...
, mainly
Polish and
Ukrainian, arrived in 1897. The municipality was officially created on 28 November 1913.
See also
*
Chango Spasiuk
References
*
Municipality of Apóstoles(official website).
Feast of the yerba mate(official website).
Apóstoles Facebook(official website).
Municipality Facebook(official website).
Feast of the Yerba Mate Facebook(official website).
Populated places in Misiones Province
Populated places established in 1652
1652 establishments in the Spanish Empire
Cities in Argentina
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