São Miguel das Missoes
São Miguel das Missões is a city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil with an area of 1229.844 km² and 7514 inhabitants (2006).
Jesuit reductions
From 1607 to 1768 founded Missionaries of the Jesuits in the border triangle of South Brazil , Paraguay and Argentina - as the area around Posadas known - along with the Guarani -Indianern many missions, the so-called Jesuit reductions . São Miguel is one of the seven Eastern Missions ( Sete Povos das Missões ) of the Jesuits.
The ruins of the Jesuit Reduction of São Miguel das Missões were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1983 . From 1983 to 1984 four other former reductions in Argentina were expanded to include four sites ( San Ignacio Miní , Misión jesuítica de Santa Ana , Nuestra Señora de Loreto , Santa María la Mayor ) under the collective term Jesuit Missions of the Guaraní . Similar facilities have also been declared World Heritage Sites in Bolivia and Paraguay .
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Coordinates: 28 ° 33 ′ S , 54 ° 33 ′ W