Sinipi

The Sinipí were a Vilela-speaking group of the Gran Chaco; the closely related name Chinipí was also recorded among their communities. Their country lay within the broad lowlands traversed by the Bermejo and Salado rivers. In the eighteenth century Jesuit missionaries gathered several Vilela groups at San José de Petacas on the Salado. Founded in 1735, the mission stood on the colonial frontier of Santiago del Estero.