Concepción de la Sierra is a village and municipality in

Misiones Province Misiones (, ''Missions'') is one of the Provinces of Argentina, 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia, Argentina, Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by Paraguay to the northwest, Brazil ...

in north-eastern

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.Ministerio del Interior
The town sits on the original location of the

Jesuit Reduction Reductions (, also called ; ) were settlements established by Spanish rulers and Roman Catholic missionaries in Spanish America and the Spanish East Indies (the Philippines). In Portuguese-speaking Latin America, such reductions were also c ...

, founded in 1619. The Jesuit heritage is still visible. The Jesuits were expelled from the

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in 1767.

References

Populated places in Misiones Province {{Misiones-geo-stub