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This shot is taken on São Miguel Das Missões on the ruins, It is one of many Jesuit Reductions in Argentina and Brazil. Jesuit missionaries founded the mission in the 18th Century in part to catechise the Guaraní indian population and to protect the natives from Spanish and Portuguese slave traders.

The Mission was constructed from about 1735-1745. Despite the efforts of the Jesuits, the slave trade of the Spanish and Portuguese empires eventually conquered and the Mission was abandoned.

On 1768 Jesuits were forced to taken out of the village and then the indian population start to decay.

If you are interessed, here is an old movie about this history: The mission

and @ Wikipedia

Description
This shot is taken on São Miguel Das Missões on the ruins, It is one of many Jesuit Reductions in Argentina and Brazil. Jesuit missionaries founded the mission in the 18th Century in part to catechise the Guaraní indian population and to protect the natives from Spanish and Portuguese slave traders.

The Mission was constructed from about 1735-1745. Despite the efforts of the Jesuits, the slave trade of the Spanish and Portuguese empires eventually conquered and the Mission was abandoned.

On 1768 Jesuits were forced to taken out of the village and then the indian population start to decay.

If you are interessed, here is an old movie about this history: The mission

and @ Wikipedia