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Encyclopedia Britannica



MISIONES

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 579 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MISIONES , a territory of northern Argentina, bounded N. by
Paraguay
  and Brazil, E. and S. by Brazil and W. by
Paraguay
  and the Argentine province of
Corrientes
 . Its boundary lines are formed by the upper Parana and Iguassfl rivers on the N., the San Antonio and Pequiry-guassu streams on :the E. and the
Uruguay
  River on the S. Area, 11,282 sq. m.; pop. (1904, estimate), 38,755, chiefly Indians and mestizos. The territory is a region of roughly-broken surfaces, divided longitudinally by low mountains, called the Sierra Iman and Sierra Grande de Misiones, which form the water-parting for many small streams flowing northward to the Parana and southward to the
Uruguay
 . The greater part of the country is covered with forest and tropical jungle. The climate is sub-tropical, the temperature ranging from 40 to q5 F. The soil. is described as highly fertile, but its products are chiefly confined to yerba
mate
  or Paraguay tea (Ilex paraguayensis), tobacco and oranges and other fruits. Communication with the
capital
  is maintained by two lines of steamboats running to
Corrientes
  and Buenos Aires, but a rail-way across Paraguay from Asunci6n is planned to Encarnaci6n, opposite Posadas. Some of the Jesuit missions of the 17th and 18th centuries were established in this territory, and are to-day represented by the lifeless villages of Candelaria, Santa Ana, San Ignacio and Corpus along the Parana River, and Ap6stoles, Concepci6n, and San Javier along the Uruguay. Posadas (estimated pop. in 1905, 8000), the
capital
 , on the Parana, officially
dates
  from 1865. It was also a Jesuit
settlement
  called Itapua, though the large mission of that name was on the Paraguayan side of the river. It is at the extreme west of the territory, and is the terminal port for the steamers from Corrientes.


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