Qom Caia

Qom Caia is a name associated with a Mocoví community near the Paraná River in Santa Fe. The Mocoví, or Moqoit, speak a Guaycuruan language and traditionally hunted and gathered across the Chaco. In the eighteenth century Jesuit missionaries established settlements among Mocoví communities, including San Javier on the Paraná in 1743. The river linked the mission country to other settlements downstream.