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Misiones Orientales

The Misiones Orientales (lit.'Eastern Missions') (or Siete Pueblos de las Misiones (Spanish pronunciation:, Sete Povos das Missões (Portuguese pronunciation:, lit.'Seven Towns of the Missions') 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 southernmost State of Brazil.

The seven "missions" were: