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Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis,
San Ignacio Mini, Argentina
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The Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba in Argentina were built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Order created its own means of subsistence by building or acquiring six estancias (ranches).
The estancias included religious, educational and secular buildings, along with cattle stations, corrals and paddocks for cows, sheep, mules and horses, fruit and vegetables gardens, fields to cultivate wheat and corn, mills, tajamar (water reservoir) and irrigation channel system necessary for cultivating fields and the functioning of mills and flour mills.
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