Jesuit Mission La Santisima-Trinidad de Paraná
The Jesuit Mission of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná is a mission center of the Jesuit monastic order in Paraguay, a historical monument inscribed in 1993, together with the Jesuit Mission of Jesús de Tavarangué, on the UNESCO World Heritage List. This mission was one of the most important centers of Jesuit missionary activity in Latin America during the 17th century. The missions were founded as small independent settlements to convert South American Indians to Catholicism. Mission La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná was founded in 1706 and was one of the last missions built in the Paraná River region in the eighteenth century. After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Latin America in 1768, the mission fell into disrepair.
