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Mártires is a village and municipality in Misiones Province in north-eastern Argentina. [1] References This page was last edited on 3 July ...
Junípero Serra, who is credited with building the missions.. Although the mission of Jalpan was founded in 1750 before Junípero Serra arrived in the region, he is credited with building the five main missions in the area and completing the evangelization of the local population. [3]
Misiones is the second-smallest province after Tucumán. View of Iguazú Falls in the Iguazú National Park. Alto Paraná Atlantic forests. The Misiones plateau includes a part of Brazil across the border. The rocks contain significant quantities of iron which forms a part of the soil, giving it a reddish color.
The Misiones Orientales (lit. ' Eastern Missions ' ) (or Siete Pueblos de las Misiones ( Spanish pronunciation: [miˈsjones oɾjenˈtales] , Sete Povos das Missões ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɛtʃi ˈpɔvuz dɐz miˈsõjs] , lit.
Other Jesuit missions' sites in the Misiones Province designated as World Heritage Sites the same year include Reducción de Santa Ana, Santa María La Mayor, and Nuestra Señora de Loreto. [ 3 ] San Ignacio Miní was included in the inaugural 1996 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund , drawing attention to the urgency of needed ...
The Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert (Spanish: Misiones jesuíticas en el desierto de Sonora) are a series of Jesuit Catholic religious outposts established by the Spanish Catholic Jesuits and other orders for religious conversions of the Pima and Tohono O'odham indigenous peoples residing in the Sonoran Desert.
The state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) is a large contributor to Mission Ribas. In 2009, US$2.1 billion were allocated to the mission, which according to PDVSA were "resources that have resulted in the issuance of 159,749 scholarships" and helped 632,623 Venezuelans earn "the title of Bachelor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela".
Capital Department is located in the southwestern tip of the Province of Misiones, Argentina. It borders the departments of Candelaria, Leandro N. Alem, and Apóstoles, as well as the province of Corrientes and the Republic of Paraguay, separated by the Paraná River. It has an area of 932 km², equivalent to 3.13% of the total province area.