Mbegua

The Mbeguá were among the Indigenous peoples recorded by early European visitors to the lower Paraná and its delta. Their country contained branching channels, islands and floodplains that supplied fish and connected communities by water. Sixteenth-century accounts also used combined names such as Chaná-Mbeguá for groups in the region. Spanish expeditions entered this river world in search of routes into the interior, bringing conflict and disruption to established communities.