The " Jesuiten" Reductions  are  settlements created by the Guaraní.

They were established, to protect the Guaraní´s for the exploitation through the slave hunters .

With those reductions they created the first indian reservation in Amerika.

 

Since 1610 they built Jesuiten Reductions near by the river Paranaparena, for example Reductions like San Ignacio and Loreto.

Slave hunters attacked those settlements more often.

The indians, living in those placements, were more formed, what means, that they were sold for much more money.

Today people guess that there were about 60.000 indians that were sold to that time.

 

Domingo de Torres decided in 1641 to arm the Guaraní for becoming a better protection. Because of that happening they could repel themselves much better. The slave hunters spared them for many years.

 

The settlements which were protected were only allowed to visit by the Guaraní, Jesuiten and guests.

They were subjected by the Spanish crown.

Spanish colonists weren´t allowed to walk in those settlements and either it wasn´t allowed to take them indians for hard labour.

 

The reductions were developed by a firm sample.

A church, organisation building and the main part built the center. On free sides of that place indians built their appartements.

The reductions had a town councillor, which consists out of two mayors and four councilman´s.

The town councillor were selected once a year. 

But the religious achievements still stayed by the Jesuiten- Father´s. They ruled the reductions.

 

Most of the land was commun land, but still there was land for families.

The indians usually needed to work two to three days a week.

The harvest was stored in community centers. A part of it needed to hand out to the spanish crone.The Spanish helped them and tried to integrate more indians. The reductions penetrated into the southern part of Paraguay, even in the southern chaco, upon the province of the missiones in Argentinia.

 

The conflicts with them colonial authorities and them large basic owners led in 1767 on instruction by the spanish king to dive out the Jesuits for the spanish land from South Amerika and abolition from the jesuiten reduction´s.

 

The reduction´s of Guaraní´s were explained in 1984 together with Sao Miguel and others from the UNESCO for the world cultural heritage.

1993 the missions of Jesuiten La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesus de Tavarangue followed.