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	San Ignacio Miní, Argentina
		In terms of preservation, including the architectural and sculptural details that typify the style known as Guaraní; baroque,”; San Ignacio Miní may be the most outstanding surviving example of the 30 missions built by the Jesuits in a territory that now comprises parts of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
		San Ignacio’s centerpiece was Italian architect Juan Brasanelli’s monumental church, 74 meters long and 24 meters wide, with red sandstone walls two meters wide and ceramic-tile floors.
		San Ignacio has a new Oficina de Información Turística at the junction of RN 12 and Avenida Sarmiento.
	www.moon.com /planner/argentina/mustsee/ignacio_mini.html (570 words)

	The Guarani as a collective group did not resist Spanish colonial rule until the 1750s, and then a major uprising among ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The population of San Lorenzo Martir totaled 3,512 when established n 1690, and grew to 6,099 in 1733 on the eve of a series of disastrous epidemics.
		Because of the circumstances of the capture of the mission and its population intact, San Lorenzo Martir was one of the more populous missions in the immediate aftermath of the uprising.
		The population of San Lorenzo totaled 960 in 1801, the year of the Portuguese conquest of the seven trans-Uruguay missions, and dropped to 434 in 1814, 250 in 1822, and 258 in 1827.
	www.timsbaja.com /rjackson/020703/sanlorenzomartir.html (5371 words)

	..:: TOURISM ..::.. Land of the Iguassu Falls ..::.. City Hall ::.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		San Ignácio Guazú - Is named Guazú = the great, because it is older than San Inácio Miní = the small, in Argentina.
		San Cosme and Damian - Was founded initially on Brazilian soil by Padre Adriano Fornoso in 1632.
		The church of San Ignacio de Miní, like all mission churches, is in the middle of the square and is of impressive size.
	www.fozdoiguacu.pr.gov.br /turismo/ing/atrativos/missoes (1437 words)

	Argentina Forever - Tours
		The whole Jesuitic premises of San Ignacio Mini, located in the town of San Ignacio, Posadas, was founded in 1610 with the purpose of evangelization.
		San Carlos de Bariloche, founded on May 1902, overlooking the Lake Nahuel Huapi, in the province of Rio Negro, is one of the most important, vigorous and populated cities of the province and one of the most significant tourist centers in Argentina.
		San Martín de los Andes, founded in 1898 overlooking Lake Lacar, today has a population of 18.000 villagers and a preferential life quality for its environment of colihues, pires, oaks and cypress.
	www.argentinaforever.com /ingles/tours.htm (2498 words)

	Visitas
		Approximately 50 km from Posadas, towards Puerto Iguazú/Foz do Iguaçu, San Ignacio Miní was one of the most prosperous jesuit missions, partly restored by the Argentinean Government.
		San Ignacio Miní was founded in 1610 in the Guairá area, currently state border between Paraná and São Paulo, Brazil.
		There is also a museum, comparable to the one of San Ignacio Guazú and a sound and light show which tells the tragic history of the “Seven Pueblos of the Missions”.
	www.martintravel.com.br /english/in_reg-jesuita-visit.htm (1802 words)

	Jesuit Ruins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the San Ignacio Mini ruins, located only 222 Km from Iguazu Falls and 55 km from Posadas in Argentina, stand the well kept and imposing remains of the temple, of the door of the priests' refectory, of the square and of the Indians' houses.
		San Ignacio Mini was burnt in 1817 by order of a Paraguayan dictator and its remains were covered by the jungle until their discovery in 1897.
		In Brazil, the San Miguel Arcangel ruins are one of the most beautiful with its monumental baroque church, its facade, its towers, some huge lateral walls with arches and its doors.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /south_america/argentina/about_destin/jesuitmissions.html (574 words)

	San Ignacio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ignatius) is a common toponym in parts of the world where that language is or was spoken:
		San Ignacio Mini, Jesuit mission in the Misiones Province
		This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Ignacio (90 words)

	rhjackson7
		In 1733, the heaviest mortality was in the missions in what today is southeastern Paraguay, including San Ignacio Guazu, Nuestra Senora de la Fe that experienced the largest number of deaths among the thirty missions with a total of 2,618 on the year, Santa Rosa, and Itapua.
		The contagion apparently arrived at San Juan Bautista at the end of 1739, and 376 died on the year at that mission.
		Smallpox probably reached San Juan Bautista mission at the end of 1739, and devastated the mission population in the early moths of 1740.
	www.casahistoria.net /rhjackson7.htm (3773 words)

	Tourism in Argentina - The Jesuit Ruins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This Jesuit Mission was founded in the year 1.610 in the Guayrá by the Priests José Cataldino and Simón Maceta, the San Ignacio Miní's settlement was later transfered to Paranaimá in 1655, as a consequence of the invasions of the mamelucos; in May of 1695 it was again transferred to the current place.
		It was named San Ignacio Miní to distinguish it of that of San Ignacio Guazú founded previously.
		The Jesuit Ruins of San Ignacio Miní's Mission were declared World Patrimony of the Humanity by the UNESCO in the year 1984.
	www.sapiensman.com /austral/jesuit/ecotourism.htm (657 words)

	Chainlink - Link #16 - Iguazú Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		San Ignacio Miní, founded in 1632 in the southern part of Misiones, is supposedly the best preserved of the original 30 missions.
		In San Ignacio, we met the first cyclist we've seen in almost two months (2496 kilometers ago in Puerto Madryn).
		From San Ignacio we were going to continue north with Ian but the night before we were to leave he met a lass who was staying at his hostel.
	users.easystreet.com /~deniston/06-14-00-narg.htm (2684 words)

	Hotel Listings & Destination Guide for South America - Brazil - South - Rio ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		San Ignacio Miní is located 60km north of Posadas, just off the main highway to Puerto Iguazú.
		Apart from the ruins, San Ignacio is best known as the home of Uruguayan-born writer Horacio Quiroga, who lived here from 1910 until 1917, when his wife committed suicide, and this is where he set many of his short stories.
		San Ignacio is well served by buses, which arrive outside the church on the main plaza every hour or so from Puerto Iguazú (4hr) and Posadas (1hr).
	www.eztrip.com /dg_viewLocation_formId-65562.html (594 words)

	Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor ...
		San Ignacio Mini is well worth the visit for anyone at nearby Iguassu Falls, whether on the Argentine or Brazilian side.
		It is possible to drive to San Ignacio and back in the same day though spending the night adds to the experience.
		All that said, I would recommend making the effort to visit San Ignacio Mini to anyone with an interest in South American history or who enjoyed the 1986 Academy Award winning film "The Mission" starring Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons and Liam Neeson.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/jesuitmissionsguaranis.html (526 words)

	The Building of the Missions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The casa de los Padres at San Fernando was built after a completed quadrangle already existed and probably was intended to be the first element of a new grander complex.
		The cartas anuas record the construction of a number of churches in relatively short periods of time: at San Miguel between 1641 and 1643; San Ignacio and Santa Ana in 1644; Loreto 1645-1646; Corpus Christi and Martires in 1647-1649; San Francisco Javier in 1647; Candelaria in 1653; and at San Tome in the years 1663-1666.
		The church at San Miguel is a fine example of the mission architecture.
	www.timsbaja.com /rjackson/020703/buildingthecaliforniaparaguaymissions.html (6767 words)

	AllAboutAR.com Attractions near Iguazu Falls
		San Ignacio is the most important archeological complex in this area, named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
		One of the only missions that remain intact today in Argentina is the settlement at San Ignacio Mini, which was founded in 1632.
		The wild bird sanctuary is located on the Iguazu river and is surrounded by a subtropical rainforest with a richness of wild fauna and is located 25 miles from the spectacular Iguazu Waterfalls.
	www.allaboutar.com /regions/iguazu/nearby.htm (424 words)

	Iguazu Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		San Ignacio Miní, built in a style of architecture known as 'Guaraní baroque', is especially popular.
		On the banks of the inferior area of the Iguazu River is Puerto Peligro, an improvised pier with access through the inferior footbridges.
		Here, you board small motorboats that cross the river up to the San Martin islands or navigate by the most abundant falls such as the Arrechea, San Martin, Tres Mosqueteros, Bozetti and Devil's Throat falls.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /south_america/argentina/about_destin/iguazufalls.html (839 words)

	The Jesuit Missions in South America.
		The remains of the reducciones, are one of the most interesting chapters of the colonial history, with some of the most remarkable examples of art of the 17th.
		San Francisco Javier, Conception, Santa Ana, San Miguel, San Rafael, San José.
		Between the Guaranì e Chiquitos missions, there were the missions of Taruma: Sao Joaquin (1747), San Estanislao (1747), Belen (1760).
	academic.sun.ac.za /forlang/bergman/real/mission/h_miss.htm (782 words)

	Moconá waterfalls , Ruins San Ignacio
		The San Ignacio Miní's settlement was later transfered to the Yabebirí River in 1631, as a consequence of the attacks of the Bandeirantes, and in 1696 to its current place.
		It was in 1939 that the ARGENTINA Government began the restoration of the ruins.
		The UNESCO declared the Jesuit Ruins of San Ignacio Miní's Mission Historical National Monument in 1949 and World Patrimony of the Humanity in 1986.
	www.argentinianexplorer.com /english/mesopotamia_lugares.asp (603 words)

	Uruguay, Paraguay & Argentina Tour UY2 Itinerary - Adventure Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the course of the day, the town discloses its many aspects as sunlight strikes whitewashed colonial buildings and the river; the latter, living up to its name, is silvery in the morning, but turns brownish by midday.
		En route visit San Ignacio Guazu, a Jesuit mission founded in 1609, with a preserved cloister, excellent museum and clay portico walls with wooden beams.
		The main house, with its verandas, its cladding of corrugated zinc, and its sheep shearing shed, is set amidst the landscape of the steppe, in one of the most impressive places on the Patagonian coast.
	www.adventures-abroad.com /tours/htm/UY2.htm (2692 words)

	Iguazu Falls Tours Argentina Brazil tour in iguazu falls
		We'll walk along a 600 meter path that joins the station in Cataratas with the area that goes to the footbridges.
		We'll go to the famous Jesuit ruins of San Ignacio Miní, a mission founded in 1610 by the Jesuits.
		We’ll float across San Francisco’s River entering the Natural Reservoir, were we can find a great amount of fauna.
	www.argentinianexplorer.com /english/escapada_m02.asp (426 words)

	HotelStore.net - Hotel Reservations / Reservas de Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In 1984, UNESCO designated the Jesuit Missions of the Guarani Indians - San Ignácio Mini, Santa Maria La Mayor, Santa Ana y Nuestra Senora de Loreto (in Argentina) and San Miguel de las Misiones (in Brazil) - as World Heritage sites and said that "they represented an unprecedented socio-cultural and economic experience in peoples' history".
		San Ignacio, Loreto, Santa Ana and Santa Maria, situated in Misiones province, constitute a 296 km-long tourist circuit of incredible scenic beauty.
		These reductions, settled in the Argentine territory during the first half of the XVII century, were part of the 33 villages that formed the old Provincia Jesuítica del Paraguay (Jesuit Province of Paraguay).
	www.goargentina.net /argentina/misiones.shtml (414 words)

	Entrance to church at San Ignacio Miní \| Photo
		Entrance to church at San Ignacio Miní
		We followed our visit to the falls at Iguazú with a visit to another town in Misiones Province, San Ignacio Miní.
		San Ignacio Miní has some of the best preserved ruins of the Jesuit missions in South America.
	www.travelblog.org /Photos/31866.html (140 words)

	Simon Eales
		This morning we stopped off at San Ignacio Mini, which is a 17th Century settlement of the exquisitely crafted Jesuit ruins.
		Beginning in 1607 in the Upper Parana region of Argentina and Paraguay the Jesuit missionaries colonised the area by concentrating the native Indians in settlements, breaking their nomadic habits and re-organising their political structure.
		San Ignacio Mini is the best-restored and most well-preserved of the missions today.
	www.freewebs.com /eales4/feb2004part1.htm (1170 words)

	John and Sheila's bus ride through South America
		By the little main square we found the San Ignacio hotel and stayed in a nice wooden cabin for 35 pesos ($10).
		Oct. After a nice breakfast at the hotel ($1 extra) we went to see the ruins of San Ignacio Mini Jesuit mission, which are in a pleasant leafy enclosure in the centre of town.
		Nov. We went to the Sunday market at San Telmo district, which was bustling and lively with street musicians and mimes, but most of the stalls had rather overpriced 'antiques' and bric-a-brac for tourists.
	www.geocities.com /johnsquier/SA2002/SouthAmerica.htm (5614 words)

	Argentina Hotels - Attractions
		Food bargains can be had in the suburbs of La Boca and San Telmo.
		Downtown, Lavalle and Avenida Corrientes are the places to go for pizza, coffee with the city's intellectuals or one of those ubiquitous meaty dishes.
		San Ignacio Mini, built in a style of architecture known as 'Guarani baroque', is especially popular.
	www.argentinahotel.net /attractions.htm (680 words)

	BajaNomad Forums - "Peace, Love & Fish Tacos"
		However, the mission itself was dependent on shipments of food from the mainland, and the Jesuits and later the Franciscans and Dominicans who replaced them after 1768 supplemented the supplies imported from the mainland by trading with other missions on the Peninsula..
		In front of the town is the suburb for the royal sailors, which likewise generally has only women, because their men are in the ships.
		North of Loreto was the visita (satellite village) San Juan Bautista de Londo, that served as the center for another four villages.
	forums.bajanomad.com /viewthread.php?tid=858 (7472 words)

	missions
		San Nicolas mission west of the Uruguay River, in what today is Misiones, Argentina.
		San Lorenzo Martir (Sao Lourenco Martir): Jesuit Mission to the Guarani This is the mission background to the film "The Mission".
		San Lorenzo Martir: A Jesuit Mission in the Service of Spanish Policy Essay by R H Jackson relating the Mission to the area around Colonia and rivalry with the Portuguese.
	www.casahistoria.net /jesuitamerica.htm (2043 words)

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