image by Ivan Sache, 5 August
2020
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image by Ivan Sache, 5 August
2020
The municipality of São Nicolau (5,727 inhabitants in 2010; 48,533 ha) is
located on the border with Argentina, 560 km north-west of Porto Alegre.
São Nicolau originates in São Nicolau do Piratini, the first reduction
established by the Jesuits on 3 May 1626. Threatened by the Portuguese pioneers
("bandeirantes"), the mission was relocated in 1638 to the right bank of river
Uruguai. The reduction was refounded in 1687 near its original site, when the
Seven Reductions were established. São Nicolau is the only mission in Rio Grande
do Sul to have been refounded this way.
The founder, Roque Gonzáles, used São
Nicolau as a base for further evangelization of the region. The population of
the mission increased from 3,000 in 1687 to 7,512 in 1732. The War of the Seven
Reductions caused the decrease of the population to2 ,542 in 1757. When the
Jesuits left in 1768, the region counted only 374 inhabitants.
Ivan Sache, 5 August 2020
Off-centered upright cross of deep red, fimbriated white, upper hoist and
lower fly fields green, upper fly and lower hoist fields yellow, at the
intersection of the arms of the cross a white disk bearing the municipal arms.
Valentin Poposki, 20 February 2007
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituramunicipaloficialsn/photos/a.560795117862845/560801111195579/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituramunicipaloficialsn/photos/a.371425510133141/565962390679451/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituramunicipaloficialsn/photos/a.371425510133141/390539261555099/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituramunicipaloficialsn/photos/a.371425510133141/381890715753287/?type=3&theater
Ivan Sache, 5 August 2020
