Jesuit Reducciones

State · 1595–1768 CE · at its largest around 1629 CE

Settlements organised by Jesuit missionaries among the Guaraní people in the region of modern Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, which functioned with considerable autonomy until the Jesuits were expelled in 1767.

On its lands while it lasted

• Jesuit reductions (1609–1767 CE): Mission towns founded by Jesuits among the Guaraní in present-day Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, which operated until the Jesuits were expelled in 1767.
• São Borja (1682 CE): Capital of Riograndense Republic (1836–1845).

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