Moqoit

The Moqoit, also known as Mocoví, are a Guaycuruan-speaking people of the Gran Chaco. Traditionally they hunted and gathered across a broad country of forest and grassland, moving as resources changed with the seasons. The adoption of horses transformed movement and warfare on the plains. In the eighteenth century Jesuit missionaries founded settlements among Mocoví communities, including San Javier on the Paraná River in 1743.