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São Miguel das Missões is a
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in
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state, southern
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. Important 17th century
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mission ruins are located in the municipality. San Miguel Mission is within Santo Ângelo
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, and the Riograndense Northwest Mesoregion. The city covers and had a population of 7,683 residents.


Mission São Miguel das Missões

The town grew around the Spanish colonial
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, Mission San Miguel Arcángel, founded in 1632. After becoming part of Brazil it was renamed Mission São Miguel das Missões. In 1984 Mission São Miguel das Missões was one of four sites of Jesuit reductions in Argentina and one in
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to be declared by
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s.


Museum

The Mission Museum is a history museum located in São Miguel Mission. The creation of the museum was one of the first initiatives of the Office of Historical and Artistic Heritage, today IPHAN. In 1937 the SPHAN was created and in the same year, the architect Lucio Costa was sent to Rio Grande do Sul to analyze the remains of the ruins of the Seven Peoples of the Missions, and propose measures. One of his proposals was to create a museum to house the statues missionaries dispersed throughout the region. In 1938, the remnants of the town of San Miguel and the museum building were listed as National Heritage, and in 1940, the Museum of the Missions was officially established. Between 1938 and 1940, the architect Lucas Mayerhofer directed the stabilization works in the mission Church of San Miguel, the construction of the museum building, and was in charge of gathering the works of statuary. Currently listed in the museum's collection are religious images from the time of installation of the Jesuit missions in the region.


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Governorate of Paraguay The Governorate of Paraguay (), originally called the Governorate of Guayrá, was a governorate of the Spanish Empire and part of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Its seat was the city of Asunción; its territory roughly encompassed the modern day cou ...
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Governorate of the Río de la Plata The Governorate of the Río de la Plata (1549−1776) (, ) was one of the governorates of the Spanish Empire. It was created in 1549 by Spain in the area around the Río de la Plata. It was at first simply a renaming of the New Andalusia Gove ...
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Misiones Orientales The Misiones Orientales () (or Siete Pueblos de las Misiones (, Sete Povos das Missões (, ) was a region in South America where a group of seven indigenous villages were founded by Spanish Jesuits in present-day Rio Grande do Sul, the souther ...
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Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata or Viceroyalty of Buenos Aires ( or Virreinato de Buenos Aires or ) meaning "River of the Silver", also called the "Viceroyalty of River Plate" in some scholarly writings, in southern South America, was ...
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List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), located in the South Region of Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul is divided into 497 municipalities, which are grouped into 35 microregions, which are grouped into 7 mesoregio ...


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Explore the Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: Ruins of São Miguel das Missões in the UNESCO collection on Google Arts and Culture
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