La Santisima de Trinidad del Paraná
Located in southeastern Paraguay near the borders of Argentina and Brazil, the mission or reducción of Trinidad del Paraná (1706) was named as a Patrimonio Universal de la Humanidad by UNESCO in 1993, this was the last of the Jesuit reducciones in Paraguay and is the one most often visited.
In return for an exemption to the policy of encomienda in which the native tribes were subject to manual labor for their subsistence, the Jesuits proposed a novel idea in which each settlement, called a reducción or redução in Portuguese, was developed as a social and economic extension of the mission to bring the Roman Catholic religion to the indigenous populations, mainly the Guaraní tribes, via spiritual instruction, education, commercial endeavors and trade.
In return for an exemption to the policy of encomienda in which the native tribes were subject to manual labor for their subsistence, the Jesuits proposed a novel idea in which each settlement, called a reducción or redução in Portuguese, was developed as a social and economic extension of the mission to bring the Roman Catholic religion to the indigenous populations, mainly the Guaraní tribes, via spiritual instruction, education, commercial endeavors and trade.