The Jesuit missions among the Guaraní were a type of settlement for the Guaraní people in an area straddling the borders of present-day Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, known locally as the triple fron
The Spanish Jesuit mission of São Miguel das Missões, Brazil
The Spanish missionary Joseph of Anchieta was, together with Manuel da Nóbrega, the first Jesuit that Ignacio de Loyola sent to the Americas
Title page of a book on the Guaraní language by two Jesuits, printed at a reduction in 1724
Church from the reduction of San Ignacio Mini in Argentina
History of yerba mate
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The history of yerba mate stretches back to pre-Columbian Paraguay. It is marked by a rapid expansion in harvest and consumption in the Spanish South American colonies but also by its difficult domest
Falkland gauchos having mate at Hope Place. 1850s watercolour by William Pownell Dale.
Indigenous Guaraní (in picture) are known to have consumed yerba mate before the Spanish conquest of Paraguay
Lithograph of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, a 19th-century ruler of Paraguay, with a mate and bombilla
Tehuelches of Patagonia drinking mate while the meat of the asado is roasting, 1895