Chana

The Chaná lived along the rivers and islands of the lower Uruguay and Paraná systems. Early European accounts recorded Chaná communities among several peoples inhabiting the delta and its adjoining shores. Waterways supplied fish and connected settlements across a shifting landscape of marshes and islands. The arrival of Spanish expeditions in the sixteenth century brought new pressures through warfare, enslavement and disease, profoundly changing the Indigenous societies of the region.

The later city of Mercedes lies here.