JESUIT MISSION RUINS & MINES

The Guaraní Jesuit missions were a group of thirty missionary towns founded from the seventeenth century by the Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus among the Guaraní aboriginals and related peoples, with the objective of evangelizing these peoples.
Fifteen missions were located in the current provinces of Misiones and Corrientes (Argentina), eight in Paraguay and the remaining seven in the so-called Eastern Missions , located southwest of Brazil .