The reduction of Asunción de Acaraguá and Mbororé

The city of La Cruz, province of Corrientes, was originally a Jesuit reduction, founded in 1630 with the name of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción on the Acaraguá river, western tributary of the Uruguay in the province of Misiones (Argentina). After the great battle against the bandeirantes, it was installed next to the Mbororé River, which also flows into the Uruguay. Our Lady of the Assumption of Acaraguá and Mbororé is the only Marian devotion that arose in the reductions that remains to this day. Born in the frontier of the fight against the bandeirantes, today it unites peoples from both margins of Uruguay, from the borders of Brazil and Argentina, who are looking for ways of integration and development.