Carapachay

Carapachay lies in the low, wet islands of the Paraná delta, where the river's channels spread into a maze of reeds, grassland and forest north of the Río de la Plata. Water, reeds and grassland shaped how people moved and where they settled, and canoe routes linked the river with the estuary.

Guaraní-speaking peoples lived in the delta long before Spanish arrival, fishing, gathering and planting maize and cassava on the higher ground. From the sixteenth century Spanish expeditions sailed the river, and the delta's islands supplied wood and fish to the settlements on the estuary.