Itapé
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Itapé is a town in the Guairá Department of Paraguay located by shores of the Tebicuarymi River.
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Itapé is a town in the Guairá Department of Paraguay located by shores of the Tebicuarymi River.
It was founded in 1682 as a Catholic mission for indigenous people by Buenaventura de Villasboa, a mestizo priest from the extinct convent of Santa Barbara in Villarrica. Villasboa travelled to the region of the Monday River where he found groups of uncontacted Guaranis so he took them all the way back to the missions in Caazapa and Yuty in two groups. As these wilder indians had problems integrating with the already more Christian Indians, Villasboa and bishop Faustino de las Casas set them apart and took them to a new site located by the Tebicuarymi River. By orders of the Spanish Governor of Paraguay Juan Diez de Andino, they established the new mission with the name of Ytape.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Itapé” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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