Spanish missions in South America
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The Spanish missions in South America comprise a series of Jesuit Catholic religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics in order to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives.
Missions[]
Argentina[]
- Mission San Ignacio Miní (1632), in Misiones Province
- 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 San Carlos
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba (1615), in Córdoba
Bolivia[]
- Mission San Javier
- Mission Concepción
- Mission San Ignacio de Velasco
- 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
- Mission San Ignacio de Zamucos
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
- (1706)
- (1682)
- (1690)
- (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 Samuel Fritz among the Omagua 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.[1]
- , later moved upstream into Loreto, Peru
- , later São Paulo de Olivença
- mission de aldea pequenas (27 small villages constituting one mission)
Spanish missions in the lower Amazon:
- , later the Portuguese fort of Tabatinga
Paraguay[]
- (1609)
- (1698)
- (1647)
- (1652), also an astronomic observatory
- (1651)
- (present-day Encarnación)
- Mission Jesus de Tavarangué (1685)
- Mission La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná (1706), near present-day Encarnación
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See also[]
- Jesuit Reductions
- Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery
- Spanish colonization of the Americas
- Guarani War
- The Mission (1986 film)
References[]
- ^ Larrabure y Correa (1903). Colección de leyes, decretos, resoluciones i otros documentos oficiales referentes al departamento de Loreto [1777-1908], Volumes 15-16. Google ebook. p. 359.
- Spanish missions in South America
- Catholic Church in South America
- History of South America
- Spanish Colonial architecture