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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 579 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MISIONES , a territory of See also:

NORTHERN

northern See also:

ARGENTINA

Argentina, bounded N. by See also:

PARAGUAY

Paraguay and See also:

Brazil, E. and S. by Brazil and W. by Paraguay and the See also:

ARGENTINE

Argentine See also:

province of See also:

Corrientes. Its boundary lines are formed by the upper See also:

PARANA

Parana and Iguassfl See also:

rivers on the N., the See also:

SAN

San See also:

Antonio and Pequiry-guassu streams on :the E. and the See also:

URUGUAY (officially the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, and long locally called the Banda Oriental, meaning the land on the eastern side of the river Uruguay, from which the country takes its name)

Uruguay See also:

RIVER

River on the S. See also:

AREA

Area, 11,282 sq. m.; pop. (1904, estimate), 38,755, chiefly See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians and mestizos. The territory is a region of roughly-broken surfaces, divided longitudinally by See also:

low mountains, called the Sierra Iman and Sierra Grande de Misiones, which See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form the See also:

WATER

water-parting for many small streams flowing northward to the Parana and southward to the Uruguay. The greater See also:

PART

part of the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is covered with See also:

FOREST

forest and tropical See also:

JUNGLE (Sans. jangala)

jungle. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate is sub-tropical, the temperature ranging from 40° to q5 F. The See also:

SOIL

soil. is described as highly fertile, but its products are chiefly confined to yerba See also:

mate or Paraguay See also:

TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

tea (Ilex paraguayensis), See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco and oranges and other fruits. Communication with the See also:

capital is maintained by two lines of steamboats See also:

RUNNING

running to Corrientes and Buenos Aires, but a See also:

RAIL

rail-way across Paraguay from Asunci6n is planned to Encarnaci6n, opposite Posadas. Some of the Jesuit See also:

MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

missions of the 17th and 18th centuries were established in this territory, and are to-See also:

day represented by the lifeless villages of Candelaria, See also:

SANTA

Santa See also:

ANA

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 See also:

DATES

dates from 1865. It was also a Jesuit See also:

settlement called Itapua, though the large See also:

MISSION

mission of that name was on the Paraguayan See also:

side of the river.

It is at the extreme See also:

west of the territory, and is the terminal See also:

PORT

port for the steamers from Corrientes.

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