Raxalaa

Raxalaa is a name used by a Moqoit community in the Chaco. The Moqoit, or Mocoví, speak a Guaycuruan language and traditionally hunted and gathered across forests and grasslands. Horses changed the range and mobility of their communities after their introduction to the region. In the eighteenth century Jesuit missionaries established settlements among the Moqoit, drawing some groups into the colonial frontier while others continued to move through the Chaco.