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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.
The Spanish colonists also brought more foods and plants from Europe and South American to regions that initially had no contact with nations there. Natives began to dress in European-style clothing and adopted the Spanish language, often morphing it with Nahuatl and other native languages. [31]
Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa South Mission; ... Mexico Monterrey South Mexico Reynosa: West Spanish-American: 8 Mar 1958 Spanish-American: 1 July 1970: note.
Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1999. Archived 2018-07-12 at the Wayback Machine; Caraman, Philip (1976). The lost paradise: the Jesuit Republic in South America. New York: Seabury Press. ISBN 978-0-8164-9295-4. Cunninghame Graham, R.B. (1924). A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607 to 1767 ...
This is a list of lists of Spanish missions in the Americas. The Spanish colonial government coordinated with the Roman Catholic Church to establish churches throughout their New World possessions. Jesuit missions in North America
Spanish missions in South America, the part of the Spanish colonization of the Americas The main article for this category is Spanish missions in South America . Subcategories
The missions were self-sufficient, with thriving economies, and virtually autonomous from the Spanish crown. After the expulsion of the Jesuit order from Spanish territories in 1767, most Jesuit reductions in South America were abandoned and fell into ruins. The former Jesuit missions of Chiquitos are unique because these settlements and their ...
' 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: San Miguel; Santos Ángeles; San Lorenzo Mártir; San Nicolás; San Juan Bautista; San Luis Gonzaga; San ...