Ocol

Ocol is a name associated with the Vilela people of the Gran Chaco and with a variety of their language. Vilela groups inhabited the country of the Salado and Bermejo rivers. In the eighteenth century Jesuit missionaries gathered several groups, including Ocoles, at San José de Petacas on the Salado. Founded in 1735, the mission formed part of the colonial frontier of Santiago del Estero.