Aim Mocoylek

Aim Mocoylek is a name used by Mocoví communities in the southern Chaco and Santa Fe region. The Mocoví, or Moqoit, speak a Guaycuruan language and traditionally lived by hunting and gathering across the plains. In the eighteenth century Jesuit missionaries established settlements among Mocoví communities, including San Javier on the Paraná in 1743. These missions brought colonial institutions into a region where Indigenous peoples had long maintained their own territories.