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Spanish missions in South America, the Glossary

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.^[1]

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Bandeirantes

Bandeirantes (singular: bandeirante) were settlers in Portuguese Brazil who participated in exploratory voyages during the early modern period to expand the colony's borders and subjugate indigenous Brazilians.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery

The Catholic Church during the Age of Discovery inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous peoples.

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Córdoba, Argentina

Córdoba is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires.

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Christian theology

Christian theology is the theology – the systematic study of the divine and religion – of Christian belief and practice.

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Concepción, Santa Cruz

Concepción is a town in the lowlands of eastern Bolivia.

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Encarnación, Paraguay

Encarnación is a district and the capital city of Itapúa Department in Paraguay, located at the south-east of the department, on the right-hand (western) shore of the Paraná River, opposite Posadas, Argentina.

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Guaraní War

The Guaraní War (Guerra Guaranítica, Guerra Guaranítica) of 1756, also called the War of the Seven Reductions, took place between the Guaraní tribes of seven Jesuit Missions and joint Spanish-Portuguese forces.

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Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba

The Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba (Manzana Jesuítica y Estancias de Córdoba) are a former Jesuit reduction built by missionaries in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, named a World Heritage Site in 2000.

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Jesuit missions among the Guaraní

The Jesuit missions among the Guaraní were a type of settlement for the Guaraní people ("Indians" or "Indios") in an area straddling the borders of present-day Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay (the triple frontier).

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná

La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná, or the Most Holy Trinity of Paraná, is the name of a former Jesuit reduction in Paraguay.

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Misiones Province

Misiones (Missions) is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia region.

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Nuestra Señora de Loreto

Reducción de Nuestra Señora de Loreto (Reduction of Our Lady of Laurel), founded in 1610, was the first reductions established by the Jesuits in the Province of Paraguay in the Americas during the Spanish colonial period.

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Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana

Reducción de Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana (Reduction of Our Lady of Saint Ana) was one of the many colonial missions for Indian Reductions founded in the 17th century by the Jesuits in South America during the Spanish colonial period.

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Observatory

An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events.

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Omagua

Omagua or low jungle (selva baja or partially tierra caliente) is one of the eightPulgar Vidal, Javier: Geografía del Perú; Las Ocho Regiones Naturales del Perú.

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Reducción de Santa María la Mayor, Argentina

Reducción de Santa María la Mayor (Reduction of Holy Maria Major), located in the Santa María Department of the Misiones Province, Argentina, at approximate coordinates, was one of the missions or reductions founded in the 17th century by the Jesuits in the Americas during the Spanish colonial period.

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Religion

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

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Ruins of Jesús de Tavarangue

Jesús de Tavarangue was a Jesuit Reduction located in what is now Itapua, Paraguay. Spanish missions in South America and Ruins of Jesús de Tavarangue are Spanish Colonial architecture.

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Samuel Fritz

Samuel Fritz SJ (9 April 1654 – 20 March 1725, 1728 or 1730) was a Czech Jesuit missionary, noted for his exploration of the Amazon River and its basin.

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San Ignacio de Velasco

San Ignacio de Velasco, is the capital of the José Miguel de Velasco Province and the San Ignacio de Velasco Municipality in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia.

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San Ignacio de Zamucos

San Ignacio de Zamucos or San Ignacio was a Jesuit mission in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia that was founded in 1724 and abandoned in 1745.

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San Ignacio Miní

San Ignacio Miní was one of the many missions founded in 1610 in Argentina, by the Jesuits in what the colonial Spaniards called the Province of Paraguay of the Americas during the Spanish colonial period.

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San Javier, Ñuflo de Chávez

San Javier (San Francisco Xavier de los Piñocas or San Xavier) is the seat of San Javier Municipality in Ñuflo de Chávez Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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San José de Chiquitos

San José de Chiquitos, or simply San José, is the capital of Chiquitos Province in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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San Juan de Taperas

San Juan de Taperas is a village in San José de Chiquitos Municipality in Chiquitos Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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San Miguel de Velasco

San Miguel de Velasco (Migueleño Chiquitano) or simply San Miguel is a town in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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San Rafael de Velasco

San Rafael de Velasco or San Rafael is the seat of the San Rafael Municipality in the José Miguel de Velasco Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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Santa Ana de Velasco

Santa Ana de Velasco (or simply Santa Ana) is a small town in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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Santiago de Chiquitos

Santiago de Chiquitos is a small town in Roboré Municipality in Chiquitos Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

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Santo Corazón

Santo Corazón is a village in San Matías Municipality in Ángel Sandoval Province, Santa Cruz Department, eastern Bolivia.

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São Miguel das Missões

São Miguel das Missões is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil.

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São Paulo de Olivença

São Paulo de Olivença is a community and a municipality near the western edge of the state of Amazonas near the tri-country border area in Brazil.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.

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Tabatinga

Tabatinga, originally Forte de São Francisco Xavier de Tabatinga, is a municipality in the Três Fronteiras area of Western Amazonas.

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The Mission (1986 film)

The Mission is a 1986 British period drama film about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in 18th-century South America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_missions_in_South_America

Spanish missions in South America, the Glossary

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See also

Catholic Church in South America

Spanish Colonial architecture

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